The Texas Lottery is under fire once again, after Lt. Governor Dan Patrick paid a visit to a store in Austin, where an $83 million dollar winning ticket was sold. Upon arrival, Patrick discovered a warehouse of lottery ticket printing machines, run by a ticket reseller.
Now there are growing calls that it may be time to shut the Texas Lottery down.
"Either the lottery is going to have to answer a lot of questions and make a lot of changes, or they're going to be out of business" Patrick said.
Coincidentally, the Texas Lottery is set for review during this current legislative session.
"They should be very worried" said State Rep. Briscoe Cain, "That the legislature gets a very meaningful opportunity this session to take a deep dive and reform, fix, or what should maybe be done is abolish it."
The Texas Lottery was sold as boon for schools, but since it's inception the Texas Lottery has yet to fund a single year of public education.
"If we can't shut the entire thing down, we need to gut it's funding and cut it's advertising dollars, and get it back to what it was supposed to do, which was to fund schools and it's not" Cain told KTRH, "So, if it's not doing it's original purpose we need to shut it's doors."
We reached out to the Texas Lottery for comment, but they did not respond to our request.