[MR] Pearl Promenade Passport Prizes and Thanks

[Terri Morgan]

The father-to-be wrote:
> how is it gambling?  
> does the person with one of these passport things actually wager money? 
>  or anything of value that would be considered a loss?
> regards, logan

Some county (and/or state) legislations have really, really odd ways of
looking at such a thing. I know that one of the counties in North Carolina
(don't know about the rest) views anything offered as a 'lottery' based on
'ticket sales' (price of admission) as gambling. *We* might not see it that
way, but they do and it sure adds to the headache of the exchequer's office.
Mistress Anne most likely has a nice file with all the ins and outs about it
that she can use to guide Vels' fun project to fruition.

If you think her caution was weird, you should have seen what I hit up
against one year when we thought we were going to be selling lottery tickets
for a fund-raiser at Pennsic. Whoa, was that a kerflop! I think I nearly
made the Lord Mayor have a heart attack that year, bringing an out-of-state
'raffle' to his War!


Hrothny