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PositionSTATELINE - Casino earnings to be used for funding campaigns - Brief article

Money from casinos would be used to help fund campaigns in New York under a proposal by Senator Liz Krueger (D) and reform advocate Bill Samuels of the New Roosevelt Initiative. Anticipating passage of a constitutional amendment this fall to allow casinos on non-Indian land, they propose the state's share of this new gaming revenue be directed toward education, where lottery revenues currently go. But they would channel $56 million a year from the annual...

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