Arkansas Blog

Max, that is the best idea you have had for sometime. The building and the drawing on Main would be great. Add a few bars and require the jackpot winners to buy a round and you've got the next big thing. Look out River Market, Lotto Live in coming to Main Street.

Brian is a good man and would do a good job, but if he wants to work on the lottery account, he'll have to re-up with his old employer, CJRW, Arkansas' de facto ad agency. End of story.

Since when are the lottery supporters and lottery ticket purchasers all across the state of Arkansas responsible for reviving downtown Little Rock and handing out assistance to billionaire Stephens?

If they have half a brain they will create a mobile camera-drawing production crew and move the drawings from city to city. Local celebrities or big wigs can be on hand to get notice and hence promote the Ark Lottery. I can just imagine Frank Broyles drawing a million dollar ticket number on the steps of Old Main. Assign it to AETN. Why pay big bucks for advertising agencies and downtown, over-priced Little Rock real estate?

That's real promotion and eLwood is not charging anyone anything for that simple but effective advice.

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Common sense says you don't need no steeeeeeeeeeeeeenking advertising for this. Let the outlets pay for their own.

People will flock to buy the things w/o being enticed by fancy campaigns.

Would free up more more money for original intent.

Oh, wait. This is the original intent. Stoooooooooooooopid me.

AR is a small state... jackpots will be low if these folks are as greedy as large state grifters.

I can tell now.. I will be buying powerball and skipping the homeboy grifting schemers.

Eureka, your post reminds me of a recent column in a Florida newspaper that said 20% of regular Lotto and Powerball players are counting on the winnings for their retirement. Maybe we are in even bigger trouble than we thought?

eLwood,
Talk to us about a moving lotto when the hogs start playing their games all over the state. They could start off next fall with games in Grady and Delight.

CJRW, Arkansas' de facto ad agency. End of story.

Not so fast there, my friend...look for changes re CJRW and that whole relationship.

The nice thing about the lottery is that the chances of your winning are virtually the same whether you buy a lottery ticket, or not. And the winners will be far more likely to be from out of state than from Arkansas. But dream on.

The country's largest retailer is located here and there still hasn't been one story in the media on their experience with lotteries from a retailer's perspective and they probably operate stores in every state that has one. I've heard that Wal-Mart does not now sell lottery tickets anywhere in the USA. My guess is that the margins are so low that they can't afford to have cashiers ringing up the tickets. If they sold tickets in the past and decided to discontinue the practice might make interesting reading.

I lived in FL when the lottery was voted in there. It was the same spiel: the money would go toward Education. It did, and the money that had previously been earmarked for Education was withdrawn. Florida has one of the worst school systems I've ever seen thanks to that bait and switch tactic. Whenever money is involved, don't believe it when agencies tell you that it's for the public good. Nobody handles money without putting their sticky fingers on it.

Just another example of the millionairea wanting all of the glory from the lottery, I totally agree with scrapper72. Why not move it all around the state and let everyone feel like they are part of the system instead of the privilaged few.

Just another example of the millionaires wanting all of the glory from the lottery, I totally agree with scrapper72. Why not move it all around the state and let everyone feel like they are part of the system instead of the privilaged few.