Leader Filippi: Wrong Gaming Bill at the Wrong Time

5/10/2021

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Leader Blake Filippi offers comments prior to the House Finance Committee vote on the insider gaming deal:

“This contract has so many problems, and I believe we are doing a major disservice to the taxpayers of this State. This is the wrong bill and the wrong time and it has to go out to bid before we make a decision.”

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