Governor Maura Healey, once a staunch opponent of expanding gambling, said Friday that she supports allowing the state Lottery to sell its products online in an attempt to “meet people where they are.”
Healey’s embrace of a measure that has long idled on Beacon Hill aligns her with the Massachusetts House, where Democratic leaders again proposed expanding the Lottery online this week and using hundreds of millions of dollars it could generate to help underwrite its state budget plan.
The topic emerged during Healey’s regular appearance on GBH’s “Boston Public Radio.” Host Jim Braude cited research he said shows that low-income residents predominantly play the Lottery.
