A measure that would expand “video gaming” in the state passed out of a House committee today. It would allow licensed businesses that create alcoholic beverages to also have a gaming license.
It would apply to a Tilton business called Rumshine, which makes flavored rum, as well as other craft distillers across the state that want to offer the video gambling machines.
Anita Bedell, a long-time anti-gambling activist, says there are already too many video gambling sites – and they take advantage of people who are already poor: