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By DONALD DEL ROSSO
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RICHMOND — Barring any unforeseen roadblocks, Virginians will go to the polls in November to decide if they want a state-run lottery.
On Tuesday afternoon the Senate narrowly passed legislation to set up a lottery. The Senate also agreed, by a wider margin, to put the issue to referendum.
Sen. Charles L. Waddell (DLoudoun/Fairfax) said he backed the companion bills because he believes lingering, moral decisions should be left to the voters.
“I frankly don’t like lotteries,” he explained. “I’m not a super proponent of supporting state government that way.”
Still, he added, “The polls have shown considerable voter interest in the lottery. Let the people decide.”
The Senate passed two pieces of lottery legislation Tuesday. By a 2119 vote, it approved a bill to set up the lottery game. And in a 27-13 vote, sentors authorized a referendum on the question for the November 1967 ballot.
Gov. Gerald L. Baliles has agreed to sign legislation allowing the lottery referendum.
Debate in the Senate Monday afternoon on this controversial issue was relatively subdued, mirroring arguments made for and against the lottery during an intense three-hour debate in the House last week.
On Tuesday, however, during the Senate’s third reading of the lottery bQl, opponents launched a lastditch effQrt to kill the legislation.
Sen. Howard P. Anderson (DHahfax) led the floor opposition on Monday, introducing nine amendments that would have outright killed the legislation or have delayed it for a year with the hope that a new General Assembly would nullify the 1967 legislation.
The senator, in an emotional plea, urged his colleagues to "stand up and bite the bullet, one way or the other,” thereby avoiding the charge that they “copped out” by supporting a referendum.
Sen. Anderson warned that once the voters decide, “you and I have nothing else to say about it; it be
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