Episode Transcript
And it all connects to the controversial Texas Lottery.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
When government gets into the gambling business, law enforcement begins
to see illegal gambling less as an issue for criminality
and more as a revenue issue.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
Les Bernal of Stop Predatory Gambling says, it's encouraged more
illegal gambling and Item one needs to be holding the
lottery accountable.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
You start going after the predatory forms of gambling the
Texas Lottery sponsors. It helps to denormalize these other forms
of gambling that you're seeing pop up.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
He says. If the state gets out of gambling, this
problem goes away. Andre Perard, News Radio seven forty KTRH
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