Crossfire (CNN) - 1999-10-15
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[0:01] Sports Tonight with Fred and Vince. 11
[0:04] Eastern on CNN.
[0:08] >> Tonight, big losses for gambling in the
[0:10] Bible belt. Alabama [music]
[0:12] scratches a state lottery. And South
[0:14] Carolina pulls the plug on video gaming.
[0:16] Are these states missing out on sure bet
[0:18] [music] ways to raise money?
[0:20] >> Live from Washington, Crossfire.
[0:24] On the left, Bill Pratt. On the right,
[0:27] Mary Meline. In the crossfire in
[0:30] Atlanta, Rebecca Paul, president and CEO
[0:33] of the Georgia Lottery Corporation. And
[0:35] in Montgomery, Alabama, John Giles,
[0:37] director of the Alabama Christian
[0:39] [music] Coalition.
[0:43] >> Good evening and welcome to Crossfire.
[0:45] Alabama voters left the political
[0:47] establishment reeling this week, soundly
[0:50] rejecting a state lottery 54 to 46%. And
[0:54] the South Carolina Supreme Court pulled
[0:56] the plug on the state's 34,000 video
[0:59] poker machines called the crack cocaine
[1:01] of gambling by its opponents. 10 years
[1:04] ago, gambling was legal in only two
[1:06] states. Today, only three prohibited and
[1:09] 37 hold lotteryies. State sponsored
[1:12] gambling exploded in popularity when
[1:14] gubernatorial candidates, including
[1:16] Alabama's, knocked off their
[1:18] anti-gambling opponents on a promise of
[1:20] improving education without raising
[1:23] taxes through astounding revenue streams
[1:26] from lotteryies. But are the lotteryies
[1:28] painless taxation? Do gambling revenues
[1:31] truly fund state education? And does the
[1:33] good and improving education justify the
[1:36] bad means encouraging public vice? Bill,
[1:40] >> Mr. Giles, good evening. Thanks for
[1:41] joining us on Crossfire.
[1:42] >> Well, thank you and welcome to A