VA. LOTTERY OFFICIAL CANDIDATE FOR GA. POST

                         Roanoke Times
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DATE: SUNDAY, February 7, 1993                   TAG: 9302070113
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: C5   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: Associated Press
DATELINE: ATLANTA                                LENGTH: Short
VA. LOTTERY OFFICIAL CANDIDATE FOR GA. POST
A Virginia lottery official is one of three candidates to run Georgia's lottery.
The Georgia Lottery Corp., a public corporation, hopes to pick its chief executive on Feb. 19 and begin selling tickets by July 1. The position will pay $90,000 to $125,000 a year.
The candidates are Larry Gray, deputy director of the Virginia lottery, who also worked for state lotteries in Maryland and Kansas; Rebecca Paul, who ran the Florida lottery from its inception in 1988 until 1991; and Brian Potter, director of the Kentucky lottery since last year.
"All three of them have said they think we can meet our deadline," Cecil Phillips, a Georgia lottery board member who helped screen more than 150 applications, said Friday.
Gray is the second man in charge of the Virginia lottery and is responsible for administration, finance, personnel and licensing of lottery retailers.
Paul, a Republican, was replaced by Democrat Lawton Chiles after he became governor in 1991.
Potter took over the Kentucky lottery when the previous director left for a non-lottery job in Texas.

by Archana Subramaniam by CNB