Lotteries. Charitable Raffles. Legislative Constitutional Amendment.
	Rebuttal to Argument in Favor of Proposition 17

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We teach our children that there is a RIGHT WAY and a WRONG WAY to do everything. The same is true with ideas for new laws.

Proposition 17 is the WRONG WAY to operate charitable raffles and lotteries. Proposition 17 is a professional gambling operator's dream hiding behind an ill-conceived "law and order" smoke screen.

For more than a decade, special interests have repeatedly attempted to muscle this scheme through the Legislature and onto the ballot. This year the special interests won with the politicians, placing Proposition 17 on the ballot.

DON'T BELIEVE promises of future legislation to regulate raffles. The politicians could have done that a year ago, but DIDN'T. And they WON'T. Protections and controls ARE NOT in Proposition 17.

Proposition 17 allows PHONY charities, scams and swindles to EXPLOIT honest people.

Proposition 17 INVITES crime, corruption and money laundering to our state.

Proposition 17 HURTS legitimate charities and will siphon big money into the pockets of professional gambling operators.

Don't believe claims that charitable raffles are against the law. CALIFORNIA COURTS HAVE RULED EXISTING LEGITIMATE CHARITABLE RAFFLES AND "CASINO NIGHTS" ARE LEGAL.

There is no need to FIX what ISN'T broken. California's laws on raffles and lotteries work as well today as they have for the last 100 years.

DON'T INVITE CRIME TO CALIFORNIA.

DON'T HURT CHARITIES.

VOTE "NO" on Proposition 17. It is a dangerous scheme that will HURT charities.

SENATOR DICK MOUNTJOY


MELANIE MORGAN
Recovering Compulsive Gambler

ART CRONEY
Executive Director, Committee on Moral Concerns

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