Rep. Dan Wolgamott promised that he would fight for us in St. Paul but he recently voted to kill electronic pull tabs. By doing so, Rep. Wolgamott betrayed our local charities, bars and restaurants.
To add insult to injury, Rep. Wolgamott voted this way at a time when our charities and their small business partners are just starting to dig out from the wreckage of the pandemic.
Rep. Wolgamott and other politicians voted for HF 2366. The bill requires that games “may only display symbols typically associated with paper pull-tab tickets, may not include continuation play, bonus games, or additional screens … and may not display or simulate any other form of gambling, entertainment, slot machines, electronic video lotteries, or video games of chance.” Now the bill is in the Senate, where its companion is SF 1863.