Texas Lottery

Contact Information
For Lottery Related Issues & Comments

- The Players Issues -
As of Feb 2003

NO Video Lottery ...
NO to $20 Scratch Tickets ...
NO to 22 drawings per week ...
NO more deceptive advertising ...

NO
to making Lotto Texas harder to win ...
NO more "reserve funds" for the online games ...

NO
to joining multi-state/multi-jurisdictional games ...
YES to pari-mutuel payouts across the board ...
RETURN
Unclaimed prize monies to the players...
STOP
Retailers from checking players lottery tickets ...
GUARANTEE
a return of a minimum of 50% of lottery sales ...
PROVIDE Consumer protection to the lottery players of Texas ...
GIVE
the Retailers a raise and/or an incentive to increase revenues ...
IF
Texas cannot provide fair payouts and games, then abolish the Texas Lottery ...

Originally Posted: September 1999
Revised: July 12, 2008 -



The Lotto Report
Dawn Nettles
Publisher
P. O. Box 495033
Garland, Texas 75049-5033
(972) 686-0660 Phone
(972) 681-1048 Fax
lottoreport@lottoreport.com
(I am not associated with the
Texas Lottery in any way. I just
watch over them and report the
latest news to you - the players.)

Texas Lottery Commission
Customer Service
customer.service@lottery.state.tx.us
1-800-375-6886

Open Records Requests
OpenRecords@lottery.state.tx.us
1-800-375-6886
All information is available to the public by
just making an "Open Records" request.
State agencies have 10 days to respond.

Anthony Sadberry
Executive Director

P. O. Box 16630
Austin, Texas 78761-6630
1- 800-375-6886
1-512-344-5189 (Fax)
anthony.sadberry@lottery.state.us

Gary Grief
Deputy Director of the Texas Lottery
P. O. Box 16630
Austin, Texas 78761-6630
1- 800-375-6886
1-512-344-5189 (Fax)
Gary.Grief@lottery.state.tx.us

Kim Kiplin
General Counsel For The Texas Lottery
(Contact to comment on rule changes)
P. O. Box 16630
Austin, Texas 78761-6630
1-800-375-6886
1-512-344-5189 (Fax)
Kim.Kiplin@lottery.state.tx.us

Contact the Lottery Commissioners

Commissioner James A. Cox (Chair)
Prefers to be contacted through the TLC
(The TLC will open his mail but
is suppose to give to him
)
P. O. Box 16630
Austin, Texas 78761-6630
Attention: Commissioner Jim Cox

Commissioner David Schenck
Law Firm: Jones Day
2727 N Harwood St
Dallas, Texas 75201
(214) 969-5124
(After TWO years, Governor Perry finally
appoints a new commissioner - Oct 17, 2007)

Commissioner Fernando Reyes
Reyes Industry
1554 Cantrell Dr
San Antonio, TX 78221
(210) 924-4809
(Appointed March 2008)

Resigned June 2, 2008

Commissioner Rolando Olvera, Jr.
(Appointed 8-28-03)
Fleming & Olvera PC
1650 Paredes Line Rd.#102
Brownsville, Texas 78521-1665
(956) 982-4404
Resigned 9-28-05 - Appointed District Judge

Commissioner C. Tom Clowe Jr.
3521 Northridge
Waco, Texas 76710
(254) 751-0766
(Moved to Texas Public Safety Commission March 2008)

Commissioner Betsy Whitaker
(Resigned 8-27, 2003)

Attorney at Law
2811 McKinney Ave.
Suite 310
Dallas, Texas 75204
(214) 754-9190

Texas' Big Three
Governor Rick Perry
State Capitol, Room 2S.1
Austin, Texas 78701
(512) 463-2000
www.governor.state.tx.us
Click on "Contact" located at top of page
then "E-mail the Governor's Office"

Lt. Governor David Dewhurst
Box 756
Austin, Texas 78701
(512) 463-0001
(512) 936-6700 (Fax)
david.dewhurst@ltgov.state.tx.us

Rep. Tom Craddick
(Speaker of the House)
State Capitol 1W.9
Austin, Texas 78701
(512) 463-5000
(512) 463-0675 (Fax)
Email - Tom Craddick
(You must email him from his website)

Sunset Advisory Commission
Sunadmin@sunset.state.tx.us

Attorney General of Texas
For consumer complaints
greg.abbott@oag.state.tx.us

Contact News Organizations
(Write or Phone)

The link below is a fantastic web site that contains links to all the
newspapers, television and radio stations. If you want to be heard,
then voice your concerns to the media. If they hear from
enough of you, they'll pay attention!
Just click here to reach this excellent web site with all the newspaper links.

Write or Call Your Senators & State Representatives

To find your representatives, just click here.

Hot Tip From A Fellow Reader ...
"Another good way to get comments to your senators and
state reps is to use the comment section of the survey
forms that they send out. I know I get these quite
regularly and use that area to voice my opinions
on subjects that are not covered in their survey."

The Lotto Report
P. O. Box 495033
Garland, Texas 75049-5033
(972) 686-0660
(972) 681-1048 Fax