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from the take on pari-mutuel betting, the public can
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benefit on the basis of receiving part of the funds
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from a properly operated lottery. It has been stated
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by people in authority, people v?ho are knowledgeable,
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that this would hurt organized crime.
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A man named Edwin Silberling, chief racket
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buster for Robert Kennedy when he was Attorney General,
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he has been quoted in the Congressional Record as saying
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he is for a lottery because he is against organized
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crime. He feels that if we legalize the lottery, we
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will take away the main source of revenue from
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gangsters and will do as much harm to the gangsters as
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we did when we repealed prohibition. He said "You can't
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keep people from gambling" -- I think everybody recognizes
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this , I think everybody knows how much gambling is going
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on right under our very noses locally — "but who is
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getting the benefit? Some big numbers backers are
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being made extremely wealthy by this operation which
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doesn't do the public any good. If we would have a
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cleanly-operated, state-operated lottery, the taxpayers
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would get much needed relief. We all know how much they
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