Texas Lottery Commission (Harriet Miers) (Thanks for Fridays Child)

[Horse with no Name]

This info came up in another thread and it is really important to look at. This fits perfectly in the Culture of Corruption. As many other Texans who remember that the lottery was intended to fund schools, and of course, the money was diverted to other interests--mostly lining croneys pockets.
From this thread:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x1810042
>>>snip
Miers met Bush in the 1980s, and was drafted to work as counsel for his 1994 gubernatorial campaign. In 1995, he appointed her to the Texas Lottery Commission. After working as a lawyer in Bush’s presidential campaign, she came to Washington with him in 2001.

My guess is that if there is trouble, that is where we will find it.
The Lottery Commission was entrenched in scandal and there was a huge ousting in the 90's. It was ONLY voted in after promising the money would be spent on schools. That never happened. But there was high level embezzlement.

And OMG--the page is being scrubbed as we speak.
http://www.txlottery.org/news/view_press_release.cfm?id...
I didn't get it archived, but Ms. Miers said, "I believe it will be best if the Lottery has an experienced commissioner on board, rather than someone whose term expires February 2001, a person who has the time to become educated about the Lottery and is prepared to help lead this agency into the future."

At this point she had been over the lottery for 5 years and STILL hadn't educated herself about the lottery?
Oh this doesn't sound good at all.

http://www.pnionline.com/dnblog/attytood/archives/002383.html
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But she does know better than just about anyone else where the bodies are buried (relax, it's a just a metaphor...we hope) in President Bush's National Guard scandal. In fact, Bush's Texas gubenatorial campaign in 1998 (when he was starting to eye the White House) actually paid Miers $19,000 to run an internal pre-emptive probe of the potential scandal. Not long after, a since-settled lawsuit alleged that the Texas Lottery Commission -- while chaired by Bush appointee Miers -- played a role in a multi-million dollar cover-up of the scandal

[fooj]

1. Are you serious? They're really already scrubbing pages?

:wtf: OMG!

Peace.