But I think we need to give this time and not panic at this point, and give the charitable organizations more of an opportunity to get geared up, get more vendors out there that can be marketing the electronic pull-tab option. And look, we're not under construction yet, either. Unfortunately, with all of the trade-offs you had to go through along the way, with getting the bill passed, we lost some of those, and it's unfortunate. In fact, if you go back and look at some of the earlier versions we had other back-up revenues that we thought would have been good to keep in there. We know the back-ups would raise a couple million dollars each per year. The state debt service was initially projected to be more than $30 million a year. Q: That's the suite tax and the scratch off game. If we have to, those will have to kick into effect. And remember we've got back-up revenue sources, too. I am still reasonably confident that we're going to be able to generate the revenues that we need. So we're hopeful and optimistic. I think the bingo thing is probably going to take off faster than the pull-tab dimension of this, but you know, we hoped that it would come in better than it has. People need to gear up for it. You know, I have heard good reports from those who have gotten into it so far. But when you're dealing with charitable organizations around the state, something new comes along, it doesn't happen overnight. It's unfortunately going to take more time probably than we would have envisioned. We certainly would like the revenue to be coming in in better than it has been. Were the estimates wrong? Why isn't there more money? Q: The revenues are coming in at about a third of projections. Here's what he had to say, in an interview about the plan this morning. The Moorhead Republican was the architect of the stadium plan in the House last year - including the financing plan that's worrying some of his former colleagues at the State Capitol. ![]() Morrie Lanning was in the audience for today's Minnesota Sports Facilities Authority meeting in Minneapolis.
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