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From the column: "We must protect electronic gaming to help our local nonprofits, bars, and restaurants survive and thrive. Minnesotans ... support preserving e-pull tabs in their current form."
“We’re looking at a cliff and eventually we’re going to go over it,” former state representative Keith Franke said, adding that he thinks this change will harm local charities and small businesses.
It's so inevitable that guardrails are built into bills to help those who become addicted. But that only works if laws are enforced as written.
Electronic pull tabs have been a huge success story in Minnesota, but now proposed changes to scale back their features have charitable gambling groups saying they were blindsided.
There isn't a bill up for consideration this session that would roll electronic pull tabs in Minnesota back to simpler versions -- versus borderline slot machines -- but Monday groups who benefit from e-pull tabs revenue lobbied at the capitol against changes.