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Sanders says rush for N.C. lottery won’t sacrifice integrity

Thursday, September 29th, 2005

By Chris Fitzsimon

By GARY D. ROBERTSON
Associated Press Writer

The new North Carolina lottery will be up and running as soon as possible but won’t sacrifice financial integrity in the process, lottery commission chairman Charles Sanders said Wednesday.

"We’re going to move with all deliberate speed," Sanders told reporters nearly a week after being appointed by Gov. Mike Easley to create the games.

"We don’t want to do it in a fashion that (is) so hurried that we would make a mistake, which in order to save time would cost us a lot of money and other problems down the line," Sanders said. (more…)

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