{"id":43400,"date":"2025-04-14T16:19:30","date_gmt":"2025-04-14T23:19:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/vitalvegas\/?p=43400"},"modified":"2025-04-15T14:24:04","modified_gmt":"2025-04-15T21:24:04","slug":"chances-of-a-lottery-in-las-vegas-are-dead-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/vitalvegas\/chances-of-a-lottery-in-las-vegas-are-dead-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Chances of a Lottery in Las Vegas Are Dead (Again)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In a town known for gambling, there’s one kind that eludes Las Vegas: The lottery. You know, the kind like Powerball and Mega Millions where jackpots can be in the billions.<\/p>\n

While Las Vegas casinos loves gamblers, certain casinos (Station Casinos and Boyd Gaming) hate the thought of someone playing a lottery because it’s considered “competition.” You know, adults doing as they choose with their disposable income.<\/p>\n

A recent survey<\/a> said 84% of Nevadans support the creation of a Nevada State Lottery. Nevada’s elected officials DGAF. A proposal to reverse the state’s prohibition against state lotteries (Assembly Joint Resolution 5, or AJR5) has died. It didn’t even get a hearing by the state’s legislature. Vegas gonna Vegas.<\/p>\n

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Lotteries are the dance of fate and faith, where optimism springs eternal and dreamers defiantly spit in the face of impossible odds. Each wager is a whispered promise, a simple twist of fate away from dreams becoming reality. Or something.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It’s rare when we are aligned with Culinary Local 226 about anything, but we find ourselves on the same side of the lottery issue.<\/p>\n

Culinary is the biggest union in town and has been very public in its push for a lottery.<\/p>\n

Culinary’s interest in a lottery would seem far afield of their prime directive as a labor organizer, but they want a lottery because: 1) A lottery could increase tax revenue and the union holds sway over how tax money is spent, 2) the union hates Station Casinos (the company’s casinos are non-union), so they’ll do anything to kick Station in its collective twigs and berries.<\/p>\n

Even a broken clock is right twice a day, and that’s the case with Culinary and the lottery.<\/p>\n

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Fun facts that aren’t really all that fun if you want the lottery but will never have it.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It is patently absurd a couple of powerful casino companies can keep a form of entertainment from millions of people just because they believe it might hurt their businesses. It’s shameful elected officials are so in the pocket of these powerful interests that they won’t even talk about the possibility of a lottery.<\/p>\n

The hypocrisy is mind-boggling.<\/p>\n

It’s sort of like how prostitution is illegal in Las Vegas, yet is rampant and generates more economic stimulation than many casinos. Heaven forbid sex work be decriminalized! Someone might have sex for money in Las Vegas!<\/p>\n

Assembly Joint Resolution 5 actually made it through the Assembly and Senate in 2023, but the casino industry has created so many hurdles, ARJ5 had zero chance of success. We said as much back in March 2025.<\/p>\n

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No idea why the Culinary union is chiming in on this, but just got this news release: “Culinary Union releases new polling showing 84% of Nevadans support the creation of a Nevada State Lottery, urges the Nevada Legislature to re-introduce the bill and let voters ultimately…<\/p>\n

— Vital Vegas (@VitalVegas) March 27, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n