Arkansas Lottery – Page 128

High Dollar Lottery Executives Hired

Jul 10, 2009JerryArkansas LotteryArkansas Lottery

Not one lottery ticket has been sold, but a bunch of people are getting rich off of the Arkansas Lottery just the same.

Arkansas Lottery Commission Executive Director Ernie Passailaigue says David Barden, South Carolina Lottery official, has accepted an offer to serve as the lottery’s vice president of gambling operations. Barden will be paid $225,000 annually. Passailaigue earlier hired another South Carolina Lottery official, Ernestine Middleton, as the Arkansas Lottery’s vice president of administration. Middleton, who started work Thursday, also will be paid $225,000 a year. (more…)

Lottery Commission Contact Information

Jul 8, 2009JerryArkansas LotteryArkansas Lottery

Since the Arkansas Lottery has ties to our state government–and the lottery commission’s website doesn’t have the contact information of its members listed–a member of my staff has obtained a document of this information.

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A Matter of Priorities

Jul 8, 2009JerryArkansas LotteryArkansas Lottery

Ernie Passailaigue, Arkansas’ new $324,000-a-year lottery director, will earn more than any of our state college presidents or chancellors, except the chancellor of the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences. In fact, Passailaigue’s two $225,000-a-year lottery vice-presidents will get paid more than most of our state college presidents or chancellors.

To further put things into perspective, the median income for a family of 4 in Arkansas is $52,217 per year. In other words, we’re going to pay our lottery director more than our college presidents and six times more than most Arkansas families earn every year.