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Weed said he was hoping for an initial distribution of 200,000 inserts and increase the number to 800,000 by the end of the campaign.
He also distributed copies of "The Church Coordinators’ Handbook,” a guideline for telephone volunteers who call voters to urge them to defeat the lottery. Initial calls are to be made the ^yeek pf Oct. 12-16, with followup calls to remind apppnepts tp ypte on election day, to offer transpolls,
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The handbook’s concluding message to volunteers is, "Congratulations on your role in helping to stop crime, high taxes and broken families!”
Weed said his organization has raised a little over $100,000, or about the same amount as the other main opposition group, Free Enterprisers Against the Lottery.
He said his campaign was geared toward a low-turnout election where opposition from church members could tip the balance. “It will be won or lost in the church,” he said.
Kenneth W. Storey, a spokesman for Virginians for the Lottery, said of Weed’s inserts that opponents have proved “once again that they are experts at distorting the truth. They ought to be ashamed of themselves. ”
He said a lot of honest churchgoers will be influenced by the opponents’ claims. “I hope these good people see through the distortions,” he said.
The pro-lottery group also issued a statement Thursday on the various budget needs that could be met with $201 million in estimated annual lottery revenues.
“We would like to hear the anti-lottery groups go on the record as (saying) that we don’t need $201 million a year in additional revenue,” the statement said. “And if they Anally admit the obvious, that we can use the money, we would like to know how they plan to raise it without a lottery in Virginia.”
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