The credit union campaign to win new lawmaker support for savings promotion raffles picked up steam last week with advances in at least three states–Nebraska, North Carolina and Washington–all coming despite a bank-led rebuke in Iowa.

And two of the champions of the raffles, the Michigan Credit Union League with its "Save to Win" prize drawings and a Boston-area nonprofit, the Doorways to Dreams Fund, voiced optimism that the lobbying efforts on the enabling bills in targeted states can succeed during the remainder of 2011.

By week's end, the Nebraska Credit Union League remained hopeful that its raffles bill now on final reading in the unicameral legislature will pass and be signed by Gov. Dave Heineman.

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