NC lawmakers, gov looking at lottery changes

... "I'm recommending that we pursue legislation to reallocate a portion of money away from the bloated and frankly annoying advertising and the large administration costs of the lottery commission," McCrory said in the statewide televised speech to legislators. He said he wanted to earmark that money toward school technology.

There's also a bipartisan bill scheduled for House debate this week that would delete the name "education" from the lottery, bar advertising at college sporting events and require ads to give the long odds of winning multimillion-dollar prizes. State law only now requires the overall odds of winning a game prize.

"This is the state of North Carolina lying to bettors," said Rep. Paul Stam, R-Wake, the No. 2 leader in the House and a primary sponsor of the bill. Stam opposes the lottery and hopes one day the 2005 law creating the games is repealed. For now, he'd be pleased to see lottery sales reduced on the games, which he considers bad bets that prey upon low-income people ...

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