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      <title>Comment #2</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 22 Aug 2006 15:19:46 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>liberal47</dc:creator>
      <description><![CDATA[Exactly. Let's see what rationale those thieves use when they take a 20 or 30 percent pay raise, and claim it is what they would get if they worked in the private sector! And that is what they will claim , is needed if, they hope to attract the best and brightest to public service. I maintain, the same applies to state workers in the lower etchelons, even more so, since they aren't going to get a sweet retirement package, as most of these fatcat legislators will rake in even if they only serve 2... [&nbsp;<a href="http://www.lotterypost.com/news/140355/667894">More</a>&nbsp;]]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 21 Aug 2006 16:49:37 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>weshar75</dc:creator>
      <description><![CDATA[Of course the lawmakers will slam any pay raise that isn't going into their own pockets.  What to go lawmakers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  YEAH!! Go lawmakers!!!!!!!! Go!!!!-weshar75]]></description>
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      <title>Lawmakers criticize Iowa Lottery bonuses</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 21 Aug 2006 16:30:02 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Todd</dc:creator>
      <description><![CDATA[Iowa Lottery workers are about to receive up to $7,700 each in what their board calls incentive-based pay   and what critics call politically tone-deaf bonuses.<br /><br />The lottery board voted 5-0 Thursday to split $385,710 among the agency's 116 employees, with each person receiving almost 6 percent of annual salary.<br /><br />The money is to be paid under a long-standing policy that rewards workers when the agency meets financial targets, lottery officials said. In this case, the lottery went almost $3 m... [&nbsp;<a href="http://www.lotterypost.com/news/140355">More</a>&nbsp;]]]></description>
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