Damaging evidence against former Mass Lottery overseer

Comment #7

myturn — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 08:56:14 GMT

As a Mass Lottery player, I play by subscription, I hope he is required to pay $1.65 million to the lottery, which belongs to the state.

Comment #6

rdgrnr — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 01:39:32 GMT

I wouldn't say every single one is crooked but I believe a large percentage of them are.

Comment #5

faber98 — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 14:40:57 GMT

every single politician is crooked or they wouldn't have made it to that level of running for or getting elected into office...there are no exceptions. you can find something in every politicians background that would indicate some form of corruption. yet, people are sheep and will do whatever they are told to do and whatever laws they pass they abide by them...time to reduce their salarys and pensions to minimum wage....then we'll get some honest people to pretend to represent their constituent... [ More ]

Comment #4

rdgrnr — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 13:51:37 GMT

Crooks are attracted to politics for the easy money.

We should institute a new system.

Whenever someone files papers to run for political office, they are immediately arrested and thrown in jail.

Then we pick our leaders out of the phone book.

Save us a lot of money.

Comment #3

maringoman — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 20:35:26 GMT

Last year, try as I may, I did not win anything in scratch MA tickets. Now I know the odds and long and some people actually won but still, I cant help feeling that winning was made extra harder so that money can be found to campaign.

Comment #2

BobC — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 18:43:05 GMT

When I first saw the ads I thought how strange that they were pushing the so called well managed lottery we have. Anyway, I wonder if these adds did help the sale of lottery tickets. Did lottery sales increase during this time?

BobC

Comment #1

faber98 — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 14:34:44 GMT

timmy's honest as the day is long like all mass politicians...

Damaging evidence against former Mass Lottery overseer

Lottery Post — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 14:24:25 GMT

Former Massachusetts state treasurer Timothy P. Cahill was directly involved in the state lottery's decision to launch a $1.65 million taxpayer-funded advertising blitz seen as benefiting his campaign for governor last year, according to e-mails and other documents obtained by local media.

In August 2010, Cahill met for lunch with Hill Holliday chief executive Michael J. Sheehan, according to e-mails between lottery officials and the Boston firm. Following that lunch, Diane Anderson, then the... [ More ]