The organizations listed on our news release verbally gave us their support and indicated they'd be sending in letters.
The president seemed positive about helping us. They spent just a few minutes talking.
The reason why we're having this discussion is because we want to build schools. Keno is a way we can do that. We don't see a reason why legislators wouldn't support building roads or schools.
There is going to be give and take in the final budget. We're confident we are going to emerge with a budget that meets the needs of the governor, the legislators who approve it and the people of this state.
They are not that far apart.
This is a game of chance that is considered a lottery game. The lottery has specific abilities and they wouldn't have the ability to do video poker for instance.
We are willing to consider other ideas from the General Assembly.
We cannot understand why anyone in their right mind would want to return to the system that we inherited.
We don't see this as (an expansion of gambling) because it's something that the lottery can already do. It's comparable to a new convenience store going up that sells lottery tickets. That wouldn't be an expansion of gambling.
We feel like it's a good meeting and it's something to build on.
We had been discussing with them, answering questions, but didn't know the attorney general would be issuing an opinion today.
We see it as just another lottery game that's comparable to bingo.
We think it's pretty outrageous that they're asking us to cover their legal fees when we're not done with the legal battle.
We think the right way to provide relief is through tapping the strategic petroleum reserves.
We think we would be much better served by passing a capital bill. There are a lot of schools in Illinois with needs including those that are still on the list. Passing a comprehensive capital construction program is the right thing to do.
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This website focuses on proverbs in the Swedish, Danish and Norwegian languages, and some parts including the links below have not been translated to English. They are mainly FAQs, various information and webpages for improving the collection.