(Sensenbrenner) Millionaire U.S. Rep. wins lottery again

YAHOO NEWS ^ | 07 SEPTEMBER 2007 | AP

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

MILWAUKEE - U.S. Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner, already a millionaire and heir to the Kimberly-Clark fortune, is on a lucky streak. 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 prize in the Wisconsin lottery, and he won another $1,000 in that lottery last week.

"I got lucky," Sensenbrenner said.

Sensenbrenner, 64, was born into a family that helped build Kimberly-Clark Corp., maker of Kleenex tissue and Scott paper towels, and he recently reported a net worth of about $11.6 million. He said he spends about $10 a week on lottery tickets.

The latest winnings came in a Super 2nd Chance drawing, in which people who mail in at least $5 in losing tickets vie for 10 $1,000 prizes each week. Lottery officials put the odds of winning just one time at 1 in 5,000.

[Sig Sauer P220]

Why is a millionaire even bothering with a lottery. Wait, he’s a politician, so his judgement is questionable by nature.

[Joe 6-pack]

How long ‘til we hear about the “rich getting richer.”

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

RETURN IT BACK TO THE TAXPAYERS! < /Sarcasm >

[Terpfen]

People play the Lotto because it’s legal gambling, not because they necessarily care about the jackpots.

[Past Your Eyes]

Senator Gregg (R-NH) won a pretty good chunk of change in the lottery a couple years ago.

[elizabetty]

I call for immediate investigations into the corruption of this Republican with an obvious gambling problem.

[paddles]

When he won the lottery in 1997 he was at a covenience store to buy beer for an office party. He was an instant winner of $250k and still came back to the party with Old Milwaukee.

Cheap screw.

[G8 Diplomat]

Maybe he rigged it.

Elections are rigged, why not lotteries...

[Political Junkie Too]

Doesn't he know that a lottery is a regressive tax on the poor?

-PJ

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Why anyone worth north of 10 Mill would even bother with lottery tickets eludes me.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

Well, if he spends $10 a week ($520 a year) on the lottery and he has already won maybe $150,000 after taxes, I’d say he’s ahead.

[vietvet67]

A lottery ticket is simply the purchase of a dream.

What few realize is that if the dream is realized, for many the nightmare begins..

[The Lumster]

The latest winnings came in a Super 2nd Chance drawing, in which people who mail in at least $5 in losing tickets vie for 10 $1,000 prizes each week

Not only is he a millionaire and a Senator, he apparently has the time (or the staff) to save his losing lottery tickets and mail them in for the 2nd chance drawing!

I wonder if he has a staffer to clip grocery store coupons for him too?

[freekitty]

He needs to come over a give me head a knuckle rub.

[sweetiepiezer]

Well, he has the money, I have the good looks. lol