Since its creation in 1991, the lottery’s contribution to state public education funding has shrunk to small single-digit percentages.
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Slot Machines on Local Calendar Thursday
The bill would be the final piece of the puzzle needed to allow bingo parlors to implement back door slot machines.
Commission Races Forward With Illegal Slots Proposal
Today the Texas Racing Commission will take testimony from citizens concerned with the agency’s impending constitutional overreach. The Commission is considering enacting a rule that would allow Texas horse and dog tracks to implement devices called “instant racing”...
More Texas Bureaucrats Attempt Back Door Slots
The gambling industry appears to have shifted its focus to a different set of bureaucrats.
Straus and Bresnen Behind Faux-Slots?
Yesterday we told you about efforts by the Texas Lottery Commission to implement slot-machine-like electronic gambling devices in Texas by mutilating rules pertaining to bingo. Despite the unlawfulness of the Commission’s proposed actions, Commission Chairman J....
Lottery Commission Attempts to Back Door Slot Machines
After scrutiny from lawmakers and the public, the Texas Lottery Commission delayed plans last week to vote on proposed new bingo rules which would have brought electronic gambling devices to Texas, despite statutory and constitutional rules against the machines. The...
Andy Cargile Visits Austin’s Lobby Club
Last week we introduced you to Neal Adams, the pay-for-play moderate puppeteer of Tarrant County. Since our story ran, left-wing blogger Bud Kennedy has rushed to Adams’ defense, calling him a “kingmaker.” Adam’s chosen one, Andy Cargile is challenging Taxpayer...
Carona Bashes GOP, Conservatives on Gambling
If Carona’s bill becomes law, Texans will be further from getting free markets and limited government.
It’s All About More Money
A big push for expanded gambling is coming, but it just means more money flowing from your wallet to state government.
Be Careful What You Ask For
They’re baaack! The same crowd that gave us Scratch Offs is two-stepping again. Advocates for expanding gambling have been working behind the scenes with assorted RINOs and Democrats for years, formulating a grand strategy to expand, expand, expand. Unfortunately,...