Comments on: Kavanagh: Keeping lottery winners’ names private would protect them

By: mike moon

mike moon — Sun, 03 Mar 2013 22:37:28 +0000

This guy rants on and on about transparency, because this is a government function, but the hypocrite doesn’t mind that the Guy who bragged bragged that he would be Mr. Transparency, BaraK Obama, is Mr. Anti Transparency.
The Guy who has spent more than 3 million dollars to stop “”EVERYONE”" from seeing his real Birthcertificate, School grades, collage grades, college papers, his mothers Passports, his fathers passports, his half sisters passports, “”ALL the papers and documentation on the ‘Fast and Furious’ murders(more than 300 Mexican people), all the paperwork on the Bengazie Ambassitor butchering, while he watched or went out to raise more campaign money.

All Obama’s dealing with home grown gangsters and thugs, home grown terrorist who bombed people to death aka William Ayars of the weathermen, Tony Resko, Twice convicted (France & Austria of stock market insider trading) George Soros, getting special deals made for tax cheating Birkshire Hathaway(Warren Buffet, of over 1 billion dollars.

I sure hope it goes thur. If Obama don’t have to show any transparency, then surely none of these winners should be subjected to this injustic.

By: Meeee

Meeee — Wed, 30 Jan 2013 19:57:27 +0000

I hope it goes through. A person should have the choice to play and win and remain anonymous. In this day and age when all someone needs is a first name and city to find out anything about you and your family? I say let winners remain anonymous.

I pray it goes through and I win a huge multi-multi million $ lotto jackpot during that time. Then if there is a problem with players claiming anonymously, they can change it back. LOL!

By: Brent Fine

Brent Fine — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 17:59:46 +0000

As rightly pointed by Rep. Quezada, this is a publicly run lottery that has a lot of moving parts. Without the government’s involvement, the lottery would not be possible. Despite private money being wagered, the lottery isn’t like a private casino determining its rules. We employ hundreds of people to work at the lottery and handle the disbursement of winnings. Without other states participating in the Powerball or Megamillions, you wouldn’t have jackpots of hundreds of millions of dollars that entice people to play the lottery who otherwise might not play it.

Because one individual wins in Fountain Hills, Mr. Kavanagh thinks he has to “protect” this person from harassment. We should all be so lucky to be “harassed” because we split a $500 million jackpot. This person chose to play the game that is being run by government. That person doesn’t have to play the game. He can go to a casino and play similar games if he wants to try to win large sums of money. In Pennsylvania a number of years ago, there was fraud with the weighting of the balls picked for the winning numbers.

Mr. Bodney brought out so many great points about the “public’s” right to know who wins the lottery. I couldn’t agree with him more on all of his points. This legislation was poorly thought through and needs to be defeated. We have public records for a reason, and that’s to protect the public from fraud by government officials. It occurs all the time and with this type of money at stake, why should we trust the government to handle that money without anyone trying to cheat the system?

It’s funny and ironic, that conservative Republicans who rail against big government and the lack of trust we should have in it, in this case say we can trust the lottery that is operated by government to be operated correctly and that everything is on the up-and-up. What a bunch of hypocrites.

Thank you Reps. Forese and Quezada for standing up for open government and not getting sucked into this so-called “feel good” legislation and protection of private citizens from harassment. “If you don’t play, you can’t win,” as the Lottery says. But then, if you don’t play, you don’t have to worry about being “harassed”.