Tennessee To Launch Lottery
By: Import User
Updated: January 7, 2009
Tennessee`s new lottery will launch
three weeks earlier than expected.
Lottery C-E-O Rebecca Paul today announced the instant winner
tickets will go on sale January 20th at about three-thousand
retailers.
Those scratch-off tickets will be followed in 60 days by on-line
games.
Paul announced the start date this afternoon, saying the earlier
beginning should produce between 15 (m) million and 20 (m) million
extra dollars.
The lottery board was named June 30th by Governor Bredesen and
Paul was hired in early September.
Tennessee voters approved a lottery to fund college
scholarships, elementary through high school building construction
-and- early education initiatives in November 2000. The
Legislature`s bill establishing the lottery was signed into law in
June.
Posted by Mike Hellgren
