Brown dismisses California Lottery director

California Governor Jerry Brown said Lottery Director Ryan Borucki election that their services are no longer needed.

His last day on Sunday, December 23 by e-mail to bees and confirmed by lottery officials. Brown was sworn in tomorrow.

The new government has asked Lin Nguyen, Deputy Director for the acting director until a permanent residence in a designated place, employees Nguyen lottery emails.

"As we know, often changes in the changes in the staff brings,"said the e-mail. "It is the nature of the job."

Not Brown, Representative Evan Westrup understanding of the causes of change. "As usual during the transition, the number allocated to the management of existing knowledge of their appointment, the governor's current term will be close," he said in a statement via e-mail.

New lottery games in nearly $ 2950000000 revenue in fiscal 2008-09, according to a report released last. However, sales volumes since last year, and total sales decreased by 5.6 percent over 2007-08. Lottery officials said Monday that the final settlement of the 2009-10 year a turnover of 3.05 billion successful series.

Borucki, appointed by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger in 2007, pushed for the modernization of the game, resulting in higher prices and, in theory, more revenue. The work was blocked by the voters rejected the proposal 1C - future lottery revenue bonds to reduce spending to avoid - in 2009.

In addition, the operations of the office of State Comptroller John Chiang, where auditors concluded that $ 46,336 in wasted staff breakfast to celebrate in 2007. Borucki said later the Senate Rules Committee, she was "ashamed and sad ... angry ... be surprised by what happened."