Missouri’s State Lottery Director Resigns After Legislature Reduces Advertising Budget to $1

[Cuts are courtesy of Missourinet affiliate KREI in Farmington]

(Missourinet) Missouri’s longest-serving lottery director has resigned. May Scheve Reardon has held the position for more than 13 years. State Lottery Commission Chairman Lance Mayfield says Scheve Reardon “saw the writing on the wall” when the Legislature slashed the Missouri Lottery’s next advertising budget to one-dollar.

Missouri lawmakers passed a 49-billion-dollar state budget proposal, with a record flow of cash from the federal government. Governor Parson has until the end of this month to make decisions on the Legislature’s budget proposal.