Posted on 09/07/2007 10:17:06 AM PDT by Mr. Brightside
Congressman hits lottery 3rd time
Updated: Sep 7, 2007 10:49 AM EDT
MILWAUKEE (AP) -- Congressman Jim Sensenbrenner is one lucky guy.
He's already a millionaire, and heir to a tissue and paper towel fortune. And now, he's won the lottery -- again.
The Republican hit it big in 1997 with a $250,000 jackpot in the District of Columbia lottery. Then, last spring, he won $1,000 in the Wisconsin lottery. And last week, he won another $1,000 in that lottery.
Sensenbrenner says he just "got lucky." He says he spends about 10 dollars a week on lottery tickets.
Just "Lucky" Like That.TM.
Didn’t Whitey Bulger hit the Mass Lottery before he disappeared?
OMG, like, he totaly just won the lottot, like wow, $1000 thats go much cash. =P
In DC, $1K won’t get you a good dinner.............
That said...why alert the media to a $1000 winning ticket? It is intriguing...I heard this on the radio this am and I thought...(thankfully) a slow news day...
Yeah, but I heard he bought the ticket from the winner to claim it for himself...
fer shur.
Why does somebody who’s already rich play the lottery? Get a life man.
I won $40 worth of blank CDs last April and the AP never contacted me.
/sarcasm
No, the idiot who won the lottery told people before he claimed his ticket. Whitey showed up and told him he could hand over the ticket and live or die and Whitey would take the ticket from his dead fingers.
Da fix is in, folks!
The story states that he’s a republican and hopes to convey the message that repulicans win fixed lotteries. This “story” is just more ‘proof’ of the republicans ‘culture of corruption’ (that the democrats wallow in).
where ! I thought this was about Mel Reynolds...
What a putz this guy is...
So he spends about $500 a year, AFTER taxes, and once in a while he wins $1000, of course pre-tax, of which he can only write off the $500 he spent in THAT year, which means in his tax bracket he has taken in a net of about $250 bucks in the last two years on his $520 investment, which isn’t too bad but he might have done better in the stock market.
And this ignores the $500 a year every other year he lost.
On the other hand, the $250,000 was a good haul.
Or buy a good cop.
You mean a bad cop..........Good cops are priceless.............
In DC I would agree.
(Darn, another Sam I Am moment!)
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