Shafter's Leading Newsmaker Has A Bad Idea

Dean Florez is worried that lottery sales are declining.  He shouldn't be.   The idea that state lotteries contribute to "public education," as Florez says, is an abuse of language Orwell could appreciate.  Lotteries spend millions teaching the public to make stupid decisions with their money.  It is an open secret that the poor and the less educated fall for this most often, but I would have thought that "tantalizing" these people with the lure of necessities like gas would be a bit too obvious.