Public not sure lottery funds will be only for education
Monday, October 31st, 2005
By Chris Fitzsimon
RALEIGH | The sales job on the state lottery may never end.
It took a massive one just to get it passed through the General Assembly this year. Now the new state lottery commission has a big hurdle: persuading the state that commission business will be done fair and square.
The commission took another step forward on that last week by considering an ethics code tougher than the guidelines the legislature gave them.
Then there’s the sales job facing House Speaker Jim Black, D-Mecklenburg. Questions swirl around him about his former political director and her link to a company that wants lottery business.
And a new poll from the N.C. Institute of Political Leadership points to another public persuasion the legislature and the governor face.
As Gov. Mike Easley and some state lawmakers have already anticipated, they are going to have to do something to convince voters that lottery money will actually reach the public education programs it’s supposed to boost.
According to the institute’s poll of New Hanover County voters, 67.6 percent approved passage of a state lottery, but two-thirds said they don’t believe the money generated by the games will actually go toward public education as the governor and state lawmakers have promised. (more…)
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