Florida Lottery chief comes under hostile fire in House committee

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guesser — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 06:31:33 GMT

Exactly.

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time*treat — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 23:38:22 GMT

Skirt the law ? Pffffft. Don't put a loophole there and then complain when someone jumps through it.

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OldSchoolPa — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 16:05:27 GMT

It sounds like this 6 figure executive is not doing the job he is getting paid well to do...kind of like some of financial and automotive CEOs.

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BuyLow — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 15:09:13 GMT

It seems every organization, gov't and private, these days are run by a bunch of self-enriching snip s.

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konane — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 14:30:25 GMT

Florida Lottery needs to allow competitive bids instead of the good OLD boy system OLD way of keeping things the stagnant.

Past couple of years Georgia Lottery has run some exceedingly effective generic (no celebrity faces) ads which are memorable.

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LotteryJunkiE99 — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 07:16:14 GMT

Well I always knew the ad campaigns were good for the lottery. But not essential. Let me tell you, once a lottery becomes available in a state, people usually know about it, and begin to play.

But I guess this is to draw more attention to it, and more sales to it, which is fine. I remember we have had the Lottery here in Oklahoma for about 2 years now, but it wasn't until about a little later than a year and half into it, that the ads become even somewhat apparant. Now they are more visible,... [ More ]

Florida Lottery chief comes under hostile fire in House committee

Lottery Post — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 01:27:42 GMT

The Florida Lottery's top executive got a dressing-down today from House Republicans for failing to bid out a lucrative contract produce its TV ads, despite a state law requiring the department to start doing so last summer.

The Lottery hired its New York-based ad agency on a month-to-month arrangement on June 30 one day before language in the state budget took effect requiring the department to put the $3.5 million contract out for competitive bids. The monthly arrangement allowed the Lotter... [ More ]