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Lottery campaign reports raising $110,000 in February Tuesday, Mar 18, 2008 By John Lyon Arkansas News Bureau LITTLE ROCK - Lt. Gov. Bill Halter's campaign to create a state lottery to fund college scholarships raised $110,000 in February, according to a financial report filed Monday with the state Ethics Commission. By the end of last month the Hope for Arkansas campaign had raised a total of $304,631 and spent a total of $221,574, Halter reported. Contributors to the campaign last month were John and Patricia Bailey of Little Rock, who gave $75,000, Ted Bailey of Little Rock, who gave $25,000, and Robert M. Wilson of Little Rock, who gave $10,000. The campaign's expenditures for February were $56,991, with $420 going to publish a legal notice and the rest going to National Voter Outreach, the company Halter hired to collect signatures. Halter's campaign must collect about 78,000 signatures to get a proposed constitutional amendment creating a lottery on the November ballot. The Family Council Action Committee, which opposes a state lottery, reported Monday it did not raise any money in February for its campaign to defeat the proposal. To date, the Family Council has raised $1,415 and spent $1,284 on its anti-lottery campaign. The Family Council also reported raising $5,477 in February for its campaign to place an initiated act on the ballot to ban unmarried couples from adopting or becoming foster parents. The conservative organization reported spending $5,265 last month on various expenses, including $1,764 on the salary of the action committee's executive director, David Cox, and $1,290 on printing. The Family Council has raised a total of $22,117 for the campaign and spent $15,079 to date. The measure's supporters must collect about 62,000 signatures to place it on the ballot. Arkansas Families First, a coalition opposed to the adoption measure, reported that it raised $31,975 in February, its first month of fund-raising, and spent nothing. The coalition's biggest contributors last month included the Fred Darragh Foundation and the Family Equity Council, each of which gave $10,000. |
