Still, the association owes at least $70 million to the state and is counting on revenue that will come from video lottery terminals.

The governor has said that the state can eventually raise as much as $2 billion a year from video lottery terminals.

In 1990, they introduced the first legal video lottery terminals in Canada.

The plan for video lottery terminals may be questioned by everyone, "but they end up having to support it," he said.

The video lottery terminals have not been installed yet.

He has sponsored a bill to authorize video lottery terminals in the state.

Nor is there anything about putting video lottery terminals at horse racing tracks, they said.

As of June 2012, video lottery terminals at the three casinos had generated over $297 million in revenue.

The 11,410 video lottery terminals generate sales of $670 million Canadian dollars.

Nor is the threat of video lottery terminals coming only from beyond the state's borders.