Gov. Proposes Selling Texas Lottery

[recoveringdittohed]

Texas Governor Rick Perry, R-TX has proposed selling the Texas Lottery for 14 billion and using $2.7 billion to insure uninsured Texans, using $3 billion to fund cancer research. No word on where the other $8.3 billion would go.

http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/nation/wire/sns-ap-texas-lottery,0,975574.story?coll=sns-ap-nation-headlines

[originalpckelly]

1. WOW! That Governor Perry has been acting strangely lately...

first the HPV vaccine and now this. :crazy:

Of course, he's probably figuring out a way to swindle Texas and this is a slight of hand trick to help him.

[TwilightZone]

2. What the hell happened to Rick Perry?

Was he abducted by aliens or something?

Insure the uninsured?

Cancer research?

Rick Perry?!?!?

[TahitiNut]

3. (Hmmm...) Is Diebold looking for expansion opportunities?

:eyes:

[AspenRose]

4. OK. Somebody's got some dirt on that boy.

Somebody somewhere has some grade-A quality PRIMO dirt on him....

[louis-t]

5. R's are trying that here, too.

Our D Gov. says "That's a one time fix for a problem that's not one time." She's fighting it.

[sandnsea]

6. Texas Lottery is way dirty anyway

It's all tied up in Harriet Miers and TANG Judge and I don't remember what all. It's run by some private gambling company, $14 billion is probably dirt cheap for what it could bring in if it didn't have state regulations.

[TexasProgresive]

7. 8 Billion for hair spray!

Governor Good Hair (Thank you Molly, may you rest in peace) needs to keep up appearances.