State Senate Examining Governor's Private Lottery Plan

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(STATEHOUSE) - The full Senate will begin looking at Governor Daniels’ lottery privatization plan.

I.U. and Purdue leaders made a last ditch pitch to a senate committee to approve the plan to let a private operator run the lottery.

Proceeds would total a billion dollars a year to pay for scholarships and recruitment of biotech researchers.

I.U. Medical School Dean Craig Brater says I.U.'s scientists are as productive as those at elite universities, but I.U. has half as many.

The vote was 7-5, with Hartford City Republican David Ford joining democrats in voting no.

Ford objects to the use of lottery money. He says it's ironic the plan would pay for scholarships by taking advantage of people who, in his words, "don't understand eighth-grade math."

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