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Lottery toes
target churches
RICHMOND — One of the two main opposition groups to a state lottery unveiled a churchcentered campaign Thursday designed to get congregations involved in defeating the Nov. 3 referendum.
“If I get 200 votes each out of 2,500 congregations, I’ll beat the lottery,” Robert R. Weed, political director of Virginians Against StateSponsored Gambling, said at a Capitol press conference.
Weed distributed copies of the first two of five planned church bulletin inserts that his organization is distributing to denomination members of the Virginia Council of Churches and other nuyor religious groups in the state.
The insert for Oct. 4 says the lottery makes its profit “by taking money from people who today don’t plan to gamble. And the lottery gets its votes from those who don’t plan to buy lottery tickets.”
“Don’t vote to do unto others what you wouldn’t do yourself,” the insert said.
The Oct. 11 insert says income spent on lottery tickets comes out of food, rent and clothing money. It goes on to say that the only thing lottery supporters can claim in return is that the lottery might save Virginians 25 cents a day in taxes.
“Would you prefer for 200,000 children to have enough to eat? Or would you rather have a quarter?” the insert says.
Church bulletin inserts also will be prepared for the following three Sundays leading up to election day, Weed said. But the nuyor push will be Oct. 18, when churches that use only one week’s insert will be asked to distribute the material then.
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