West Virginia state Senator Herb Snyder wants to make his state’s lottery more profitable, a less vulnerable to being raided by neighboring states’ lotteries.
Last week he told fellow lawmakers, “The lottery model in the state of West Virginia—particularly the racino lottery, the machines and so forth—is broken and we haven’t really talked about fixing it.”
His solution is to building gaming venues along the state’s border with Virginia to take advantage of the fact that the Old Dominion has no casinos.
“It’s the great value of that border for casino gambling that will repair and put meat back onto the bones of our lottery model,” the senator was quoted by the Metro News. “Look at coal severance—there’s not a lot we can do about that. Gas severance is tied to our future with the gas industry, but we can do something about lottery.”
