As the Lottery Turns

Today’s lottery soap opera news.

North Carolina names a director! Good for them. It’s pretty clear that there is a group of people desperate for lottery revenue. You know how slow the government is and this has been a very quick process. The haste may have been a pr response to the questionable activities of the previous director, who’s very brief directorship went down in a blaze of rumors and accusations. Taking some $24,000 from the company winning the bid to supply the lottery machines.

The new potentatate is Shaheen. With some excellent credentials, he has alreay made an impact. I like his incentive structure. He makes some $235,000 year, and he gets a $50k bonus if he gets the lottery running in 4 months from his hire date. Do you think money is a major motivator?

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