Cleveland.com:
Ohio Auditor Mary Taylor says the Ohio Lottery Commission is well managed but could be improved if it trimmed some staff and offices and were free of some legislative oversight...
In the 131-page performance audit, Taylor also recommends that the governor and legislature try to reorganize the lottery to give it "at least a modicum of exemption" from state administrative rule-making requirements.
By becoming a quasi-public corporation, the lottery would better be able to "react to changing market and implement legislatively-authorized on-line and instant games in a more timely fashion," Taylor said...
Do you like that phrase "quasi-public corporation" that Taylor mentions? That means that some private company, preferably a Republican pal of Kasich's, can help run the Ohio Lottery and
I've got to hand it to Kasich and Taylor. They continue to roll out their "plans" to privatize, sell off, re-organize, and remove people and regulations. Why do they hate Ohio?
I can see the newspaper ad now:
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Buy a piece of Ohio's government.
Contact Kasich-Taylor. {Preferential treatment given to Republican contributors and pals from Kasich's Lehman
Brothers days.}
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The Kasich-Taylor team have already presented us with ideas that (1) mirror Strickland's regulation reforms already in place, (2) turn governmental departments over to a private group with members handpicked by Kasich and with the ability to give themselves bonuses, (3) create a "quasi-public" lottery entity and remove governmental oversight (that means that the profits would have to be split with the corporation/company that partners with the state.), (4) layoff tens of thousands of state workers.
Give these Republicans a few more days and they'll come up plans to sell the Ohio Turnpike, the Ohio State Fair, parts of the state park system, an idea to cut all state funding for schools, an idea to cut public school teachers' salaries, and a proposal to privatize all the state pension plans to some old pals from Lehman.