Tennessee Lottery wastes $1M on needless legal activities

Comment #6

Lotto Czar — Fri, 13 Feb 2004 12:06:20 GMT

Just goes to show how State lotteries, or any business gets in to trouble: HIGH OVERHEAD. Similair things happen here in Pa. Too many extaneous perks for outside help. Wine and dine drawing witnesses, wardrobes, coiffs and make up and bling bling for the employees, commissions for vendors, Yes I now they should look nice on TV, but, ...Just sell the tickets, collect the money, disburse what is to be paid to winners and programs. it's that simple. Does the State run the lottery or is it outs... [ More ]

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dvdiva — Fri, 13 Feb 2004 03:07:43 GMT

one million is nothing. in seattle the stupid mass transit light rail system wasted over 200 million and have yet to lay track (its 1 billion + now

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johnph77 — Thu, 12 Feb 2004 19:13:54 GMT

Shakespeare - Kill the lawyers.

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konane — Thu, 12 Feb 2004 19:09:33 GMT

Yes, GA should have paid much closer attention the years she was here and we might have had a better looking bottom line instead of declining revenues. With her finally gone they are saying sales are up, revenues are up.

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fja — Thu, 12 Feb 2004 15:26:22 GMT

looks like the states are starting to pay closer attention to their lotteries. Obivously they're probably trying to get more contribution to the educational funds than they have been.

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Saleo Paleo — Thu, 12 Feb 2004 14:07:47 GMT

So glad to see it is going so well with the lottery,We should have done this years ago,It can be a great help to education in our state as it is in Ga.The people who play the lottery like myself have been going to Ga, Ill, Ind.and other states to play now we can put our money back in our own state . Saleo Paleo

Tennessee Lottery wastes $1M on needless legal activities

Lottery Post — Thu, 12 Feb 2004 11:54:18 GMT

The Tennessee Lottery has incurred out-of-control legal expenses that stem from needless and insignficant legal activities, according to recent reportsThe state lottery became embroiled in more controversy yesterday with the disclosure that the Tennessee Education Lottery Corp., which oversees all lottery operations, has been billed for more than $1 million in legal fees since it began work last August.Lottery CEO Rebecca Paul told the legislature's Lottery Oversight Committee that the corporati... [ More ]