Maryland Lottery director hired by D.C. Lottery

Comment #11

four4me — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 15:57:23 GMT

The Sun reports that Buddy quit the MD state lottery. Could this be because Maryland is still hashing out the video lottery terminal fiasco and the slots that are supposedly being run by the MD lottery.

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/Maryland/bal-md.roogow28oct28,0,6684856.story

The slots were supposed to be happening to keep horse racing in maryland yet MAGNA has put both tracks up for auction/sale and the proposed slots are being place outside the tracks not in them. What a mess. If Ma... [ More ]

Comment #10

four4me — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 03:51:43 GMT

Buddy is leaving Maryland to go to work for the DC lottery and if Powerball and mega millions merge that might become the national lottery stands to reason it might be run from DC. I'm saying Buddy is poising himself for a bigger role possibly.

Buddy is a pretty smart guy he negotiated a deal with the NFL to have a scratch off for the Ravens up and until last year the NFL was prohibited from joining any gambling venture but they changed the rules. Now several NFL teams are on board with... [ More ]

Comment #9

jarasan — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 02:30:02 GMT

I think it is a matter of definition, when you say national according to the following it means run by the govt. Our national lotteries are actually multi state lotteries run by privately owned companies supervised by the states. It may be the merger of the two multistate lotteries. They are kinda like the govt. run healthcare lotteries. I've actually heard people say that the lotteries are a tax on the low income people of the US and all other takers.

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Comment #8

four4me — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 00:59:03 GMT

These

http://www.allbusiness.com/company-activities-management/company-structures-ownership/13214240-1.html

http://www.dailyfinance.com/2009/10/14/megamillions-and-powerball-may-join-forces-for-national-lottery

Comment #7

jarasan — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 22:56:19 GMT

National Lottery? What? I thought Pball and Mega were national lotteries.

Oh sorry, I just looked it up, and national lotteries refer to socialist country lotteries such as this one:

http://www.national-lottery.co.uk/player/p/home.ftl

More info:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_lottery

Comment #6

chasingadream — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 06:42:02 GMT

this is a very interesting theory........

Comment #5

four4me — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 03:57:22 GMT

Maybe he's going to DC so he can head up the national lottery when it takes effect stands to reason a national lottery would be run from DC.

Comment #4

JimmySand9 — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 03:46:14 GMT

He's kept Maryland RNG-free his entire time there, hopefully he'll make DC the same way.

Comment #3

jarasan — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 02:11:35 GMT

I hope they promote from within with the same philosophy of ball play. Yeah WOW! Litebets what a surprise! That D.C. lottery is suspect and needs some cred.

Comment #2

Litebets27 — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 01:31:47 GMT

Wow

Comment #1

jarasan — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 01:23:41 GMT

He will be missed. Maybe they'll go to balls in D.C.. That would be an F to an A.

Maryland Lottery director hired by D.C. Lottery

Lottery Post — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 01:20:22 GMT

Roogow has been Md. director for 12 years

WBAL Radio has learned that Buddy Roogow is leaving the Maryland Lottery. He has accepted the post of Executive Director of the D.C. Lottery and Charitable Games.

David Umanski in the office of the CFO for the D.C. Lottery tells WBAL Radio that after a nationwide search, Roogow was the superior candidate for the post.

Roogow will remain as Director of the Maryland Lottery through the end of November and begin his new job in D.C. in early Decembe... [ More ]