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Georgia Lottery bonuses stir lawmakers into actionNews Story
The Georgia Lottery board's decision to hand out nearly $3 million in bonuses to employees this year has lawmakers vowing to put new controls on the corporation. Senate Majority Whip Mitch Seabaugh (R-Sharpsburg) filed legislation Friday that would give lawmakers appointments to the Lottery Corp. board. Currently, the governor appoints the board. His bill, which will be considered during the 2008 session, also would mandate that all Lottery Corp. spending, including employee bonuses, be appro
Dec 14, 2007, 10:54 pm - Lottery News

Lottery juggling whether to ban smoking at ticket outletsNews Story
The Texas Lottery Commission is considering a ban on selling tickets in stores that allow smoking after a recent attorney general's opinion suggested the practice could open the state to civil rights lawsuits. Anti-smoking and civil rights advocates urged the commission at a meeting Wednesday to re-evaluate how it licenses vendors and to not allow smoking where tickets are sold. They are concerned that secondhand smoke prevents people with disabilities or illnesses related to smoke from bu
Dec 6, 2007, 7:56 am - Lottery News

Newspaper criticizes Georgia Lottery bonusesNews Story
Lottery job a big win for execs who earn fat bonuses By Maureen Downey, AJC editorial board Dec. 6, 2007 The Georgia Lottery Corp. pitches its Win for Life game as The Game That Offers a Lifetime of Security, a slogan that might also describe a job with the lottery. Equal Time: Lottery bonuses are deserved With $3 million in bonuses handed out this year, lucky employees who end up at the Georgia Lottery have won The Career That Offers a Lifetime of Security. Georgia Lottery
Dec 6, 2007, 7:54 am - Lottery News

Georgia Lottery Chairman defends bonusesNews Story
Lottery bonuses are deserved Incentives good business practice By Tony Campbell, Board Chairman of the Georgia Lottery Corporation Dec. 6, 2007 I am dismayed at the public criticism of an extraordinarily successful organization that has achieved record results and contributed record amounts to the HOPE scholarship and pre-kindergarten programs. Equal Time: Lottery job a big win for execs who earn fat bonuses The Georgia Lottery Corp.'s results have far exceeded expectations. As
Dec 6, 2007, 7:54 am - Lottery News

Georgia lawmakers question lottery bonusesNews Story
Top Georgia Republicans are calling for a review of the bonuses awarded to Georgia Lottery officials. Georgia Lottery President Margaret DeFrancisco and her employees collected nearly $3 million dollars in bonuses this year, a sum that has mystified Georgia legislators who three years ago tightened requirements for the lottery-funded HOPE scholarship. House Higher Education Committee Chair Bill Hembree called the figures insane and Senate Majority Whip Mitch Seabaugh said he wanted to re
Dec 3, 2007, 8:38 am - Lottery News

Lottery no game for Tennessee executiveNews Story
Standing recently in Neyland Stadium with roaring University of Tennessee football fans, Rebecca Paul Hargrove, the highflying impresario of legalized gambling, proudly waved a symbolic check for a billion dollars. The moment, captured on jumbo screens across the stadium, was among the countless plugs for the fund-raising prowess of Tennessee's lottery, which Hargrove started four years ago. As lottery executives go, few can claim her knack for seizing the spotlight. No matter the occasion, H
Nov 23, 2007, 10:12 am - Lottery News

Some States Consider Leasing Their LotteriesNews Story
As chief operating officer of the California Department of Finance, Fred Klass gets pitches from Wall Street bankers as often as the rest of us might get cold calls from telemarketers or insurance agents. But when Kathleen Brown of Goldman Sachs came to his office earlier this year and suggested privatizing the state lottery, Mr. Klass listened closely. It wasn't merely because Ms. Brown happened to be a former state treasurer as well as the daughter of one famous California governor and the
Oct 16, 2007, 10:05 am - Lottery News

Lottery CEO fired one day after pollNews Story
fThe president of the B.C. Lottery Corporation was fired one day after an internal poll last May showed public trust in the corporation had plummeted in the wake of a warning by the province's Ombudsman of possible fraud by some retailers. However, another poll taken a month later showed tfhe removal of BCLC president and CEO Vic Poleschuk had done little to restore public confidence, and public estimates of ongoing retailer theft had barely changed. The first internal poll, dated May 31,
Oct 16, 2007, 7:50 am - Lottery News

Scientific Games to close Texas plantNews Story
Lottery operator Scientific Games Corp said it plans to close its plant in San Antonio, Texas, citing adequate production capacity in its other plants worldwide, a move that will affect about 350 jobs. Some of the plant's technicians and managers will be offered the opportunity to relocate to other Scientific Games operations, the company said in a statement. Scientific Games also offered severance packages, arrangements for continuity of health insurance, and outplacement assistance to th
Sep 26, 2007, 12:29 pm - Lottery News

Okla. Lottery Commission struggles to meet its 35% profit requirementNews Story
As a result of the finance and audit committee's dreary budget forecasts for fiscal year 2008, the Oklahoma Lottery Commission is planning to trim costs and attempt to get a key statutory requirement of the commission eliminated. The board plans to try to amend out a requirement that the Lottery Commission post a 35-percent profit in their third year of operations. The board said they are doing all they can to trim operating costs without cutting current staff and advertising expenditures,
Sep 19, 2007, 4:34 pm - Lottery News