HARRISBURG PATRIOT-NEWS Column: After three years of revenues falling short of expectation, Illinois is parting ways with the private management firm it hired in 2010 to run its state lottery.
The news of Illinois’ decision to divorce Northstar Lottery Group announced on Friday struck a chord with a Pennsylvania labor union official and others who had been critical of a similar pursuit by Gov. Tom Corbett to hand over the reins of the Pennsylvania Lottery to a private management firm.
Corbett abandoned that privatization pursuit, at least for the time being, when he announced at the end of 2013 that he was allowing a bid from United Kingdom-based Camelot Global Services to expire after extending it eight times over the course of a year. That decision came after Attorney General Kathleen Kane raised constitutional and legal objections about the proposed contract with Camelot. .. (more)
EDITOR: We had vociferously expressed opposition to Corbett’s privatization proposal as having no business logic and as an effort to divert another public resource to enrich private interests and, indirectly, to fill the coffers of his current political campaign.
