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No-Nonsense Miers a Former Lotto Chair
As chairwoman of the Texas Lottery Commission in the 1990s, Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers played a key role in firing two executive directors and was known for her no-nonsense approach. "Although she’s a small-framed woman, we all believed she came through the Marines and maybe ate nails for breakfast because she’s one tough cookie,” Horace Taylor, a former lottery employee who worked for Miers, told the Houston Chronicle.
George Bush appointed Miers to the three-person commission shortly after he was elected governor in 1994. A year and a half later, the commission learned that lottery director Nora Linares’ boyfriend had been a consultant for GTECH Corp., the lottery’s main contractor.
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Linares said she was unaware that he worked for GTECH until shortly before the report surfaced. But the Miers-led commission fired her, stating that she’d been too damaged by the scandal. The commission later exonerated Linares of any wrongdoing. Lawrence Littwin was hired as a replacement, but he, too, was fired by the commission after just four months on the job.
Littwin’s firing came amid a decline in sales, but the commission would not reveal why he was terminated. According to the Chronicle, he’d created a stir by ordering lottery security officers to research campaign finance records of 30 current and former state officials.
Miers resigned from her job in 2000, saying her departure was not related to lagging sales of the state’s biggest game, Lotto Texas.
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