In a Friday appearance on Huntsville WVNN's "The Dale Jackson Show," U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Auburn) laid out how he would handle the ongoing lottery and expanded legal gambling debate as Alabama governor.
Tuberville, who announced his gubernatorial bid earlier this week, doubled down on leaving the legislation up to the state legislature and the people of Alabama. He declared that he would not allow the people who run lottery associations to be the beneficiaries and that the money would stay in the state.
“It's going to be up to the people," Tuberville told host Dale Jackson. "The legislature has got to do it first, no matter what it is. And then, of course, the ... Alabama people and the referendum will have to vote on this. Now, I'm not going to allow people to come in that run these lottery associations."
"Like you just said, the money goes to the people that run the lottery systems," he continued. "As I've been in DC, I've sat down for hours with governors that are now senators and talked to them by good and bad and different than the things that they've done. And that's one of the things they say. 'If your people want to pass the lottery, just make sure that the money goes to the state and not to the people running the lottery system.'"
"And so, if it's done, we'll do it the right way. Again, it's going to have to be passed by the people of Alabama, but it will be done the right way, and we will make some money out of it," Tuberville concluded.
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