Lottery for Alabama?

[wesfau2]

State Senate passed Bentley's bill, with slight amendment to the recipients of the lottery revenues.

Good for the state?  Bad?  Fuck off, it's football season?

[jmar]

State Senate passed Bentley's bill, with slight amendment to the recipients of the lottery revenues.

Good for the state?  Bad?  Fuck off, it's football season?

Like it even w/o knowing those slight details. The education system here is a mammoth entity, see Mike Hubbard but the timing couldn't have been better.

[Snaggletiger]

Every Monday or Tuesday at lunch, I drive just a few miles south to the Florida State line and play my same lucky numbers.  (Those numbers have worked out just swell so far)  All this will do is save me a little gas.  Like anything else, just put the issue to a vote and let the peeps decide.

[jmar]

Every Monday or Tuesday at lunch, I drive just a few miles south to the Florida State line and play my same lucky numbers.  (Those numbers have worked out just swell so far)  All this will do is save me a little gas.  Like anything else, just put the issue to a vote and let the peeps decide.

Exactly.
Somebody's getting paid regardless. All we desire is the convenience to get rich muthafucka.

[Buzz Killington]

I'd much rather see the money going toward education.  Not a big fan of all that pork.

[GH2001]

Actually attended a luncheon Thursday with Bentley down in Phenix City. He mentioned that the vote was later that day and that he had a version of the bill that he hoped to pass. And I'm glad it did but like buzz said, I'd like to see at least some of it go to education. From what he said Thursday it's mainly going to cover Medicaid since the state is in the red with it at the moment.

[bottomfeeder]

Bentley is an IDIOT. He passed up the money from the feds that would have shored up Medicaid ahead of the obamacare disaster. He plans on getting his bony little hands on some of that money since he lost all of his in the divorce. Fuck him and his mistress. Oh wait, just his mistress. I'll still play the Florida State lotto just despite him.

[jmar]

Can't we still get the lottery and then prosecute the alleged embezzling bastard?😂

[wesfau2]

I'd much rather see the money going toward education.  Not a big fan of all that pork.

The Senate approved 10% to education, 20% to Medicaid and the rest to the General Fund, I believe. 

[djsimp]

The Senate approved 10% to education, 20% to Medicaid and the rest to the General Fund, I believe.

Should be more for education IMO. I mean, 10%, really, that is all? Damn. Maybe I'm just ignorant to this but what percentage does Florida and Georgia set aside for education?

[jmar]

Should be more for education IMO. I mean, 10%, really, that is all? Damn. Maybe I'm just ignorant to this but what percentage does Florida and Georgia set aside for education?

I know. We could be known as the state with the only non-educational lottery. One would think that a much larger portion would be for education because it looks as if they are treating it like a miscellaneous expense.

[Kaos]

I'd much rather see the money going toward education.  Not a big fan of all that pork.

Hates pork.

Closet Muslim.

[Buzz Killington]

The Senate approved 10% to education, 20% to Medicaid and the rest to the General Fund, I believe.

70%?  That's a jumbo pork sammich, chopped.

[The Prowler]

"General Fund"...is that what they call pocketing the money?

[GH2001]

"General Fund"...is that what they call pocketing the money?

The general fund is in the red at the moment. Why don't you research how budgets work before throwing out stupid conspiracy statements.

Medicaid is also in the red. What would you do? Go "more" broke? Credit rating downgraded perhaps?

[GH2001]

Should be more for education IMO. I mean, 10%, really, that is all? Damn. Maybe I'm just ignorant to this but what percentage does Florida and Georgia set aside for education?

Georgia's IS an education lottery. As in, it's purpose.

[Saniflush]

Georgia's IS an education lottery. As in, it's purpose.

You mis-understood....What they meant was it is like the lottery to get an education in Georgia.

[War Eagle!!!]

10% for education.

Yikes.

70% to the general fund seems risky too. This seems destined to fail.

[jmar]

Just perusing the net I found that the initial percentage breakdown of our proposed lottery is consistent with many other states.
Don't know the source below but it's worth the read.
  http://fivethirtyeight.com/datalab/what-percentage-of-state-lottery-money-goes-to-the-state/

[Buzz Killington]

10% for education.

Yikes.

70% to the general fund seems risky too. This seems destined to fail.

But gohvehnoh boobies needs moah money to keep his skybox at Brunt Denneys and the side chick happy too.