Arkansas Lottery fires second VP

Comment #11

sully16 — Sun, 09 Oct 2011 14:28:04 GMT

LOL, PASS THE TATERS. please,

Comment #10

rdgrnr — Sat, 08 Oct 2011 20:09:09 GMT

Passailaigue (pronounced Pass'-a-laig) is a past president of the North American Association of State and Provincial Lotteries, a lottery trade organization.

One thing is for sure: He'll never be able to get a job at KFC with that name. It'd just cause too much dadgum confusion.

Comment #9

dpoly1 — Sat, 08 Oct 2011 15:59:27 GMT

Powermillions tonite

Comment #8

Todd — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 19:47:39 GMT

Interestingly, if you click the link in the Related Stories box above for the June 18, 2009 story about the director being hired, you will see nothing but positive comments from Lottery Post members about him.

Hopefully any lottery director considering changing over to computerized drawings will notice the complete shift in player attitude and immediate evaporation of good will that accompanies that decision.

Comment #7

temptustoo — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 19:40:20 GMT

LOL K A R M A !!!!! Finally came around

Comment #6

ressuccess — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 19:33:55 GMT

Ouch! I didn't know why the vice president of Arkansas Lottery got fired.

Comment #5

faber98 — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 16:32:11 GMT

kudos to arkansas for getting rid of these So Carolina hacks. what took them so long to do it. I will never figure out why they hired them in the 1st place. You could pull anyone off the street and run a lottery and pay them maybe 25K a year. Now, South Carolina should ban these 3 from taking up residence back there unless they don't apply for a job that someone else deserves.

Comment #4

rdgrnr — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 15:02:23 GMT

It would be great if they started with that premise and hired someone to carry it out instead of getting someone who's just going to do the same old computer draws for a lower salary.

Comment #3

TnTicketlosers — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 14:57:18 GMT

They come on east and clean house.

Comment #2

TheRightPrice — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 14:34:31 GMT

Comment #1

Todd — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 10:59:17 GMT

Maybe they could hire someone who will focus on the games and building more player-base excitement. Like perhaps starting off by building an event around the switch to real lottery drawings.

Arkansas Lottery fires second VP

Lottery Post — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 10:56:49 GMT

The Arkansas Lottery has fired the last of three top officials brought in to launch the games two years ago, and the lottery commission's chairwoman called the move an opportunity for change.

Ernestine Middleton, the lottery vice president for administration, was fired Wednesday two days after the resignations of embattled director Ernie Passailaigue and another vice president, David Barden. Passailaigue announced last month he would be leaving, but Barden and Middleton had said they wanted t... [ More ]