Lottery Vending Machines: Enticing Minors to Gamble (Video)
In this video, we discuss why the lottery vending machines being touted are such a bad idea and how they’ll entice minors to gamble.
Arkansas Voter’s Guide Responses Indicate New Demand for Candidate Transparency
Last week, I stood before members of the press to unveil Family Council’s 2010 Voter’s Guide for the upcoming May 18th Primary Elections. The real story, however, wasn’t simply that Family Council was publishing a voter’s guide—we’ve been doing that for 20 years now. The story was that a record number of candidates—72%—sent survey responses to us.
Vending Machines Prove No Amount of Gambling is Too Much for Arkansas’ Lottery Commission
The following is a press release from Family Council.
Today, Family Council criticized the lottery commission’s plan to install up to 100 lottery ticket vending machines in stores across the state.
“This is just another example of Arkansas’ lottery commission trying to institute as much gambling as possible as quickly as possible,” said Family Council President Jerry Cox. “In the last year since the lottery began, Arkansans have been inundated with more gambling than many states saw in the first 5 years of their lotteries.”