RI House Minority Leader Blake Filippi. File photo: GoLocal
Rhode Island House Minority Leader Blake Filippi says his biggest priority of the 2021 General Assembly continues to be the proposed IGT-Twin River 20-year contract extension with the state.
In a wide-ranging interview with GoLocal, Filippi also talked about hot-button issues including charter school expansion, nursing home worker pay, and more It s no longer [just] about IGT, said Filippi, who had fought against a number of provisions when IGT and Twin River were at odds over a contract extension before teaming up. When you read the legislation it authorizes a 14-year extension of the existing Twin River host contract which provides for 28% of net terminal income from the machines and 84% of the table games going to Twin River, said Filippi. For years we were just talking about IGT and that contract and that was only 9 1/2% of net VLT (video lottery terminal) income.