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Tom Delacenserie to Take Over Florida Lottery from Cynthia O'Connell

August 28, 2015 - 12:45pm
Tom Delacenserie and Cynthia O'Connell
Tom Delacenserie and Cynthia O'Connell

Gov. Rick Scott named Tom Delacenserie as the interim secretary of the Florida Lottery to replace Cynthia O’Connell. Earlier this week, Politico Florida ran a story focusing on O’Connell racking up almost $30,000 in travel expenses and being excessively absent. 

On Friday, Scott announced O’Connell would leave her current post on Oct. 1 and head into the private sector. He also pointed to the lottery’s record under O’Connell’s watch and praised her for her leadership. 

 “Cynthia has been part of my team since my first year in office and she has done a tremendous job serving Florida families,” Scott said. “Under her leadership, the Florida Lottery has achieved record sales, and last year the lottery transferred over $1 billion to Florida’s education system. Cynthia’s constant marketing efforts have not only enhanced our school system, but given many Florida students the opportunity to excel in the classroom. I truly appreciate her dedication to making Florida the best state in the nation for families and our students, and I hope she will continue using her skills to serve our state even as she moves on to other career opportunities.

Scott also named Delacenserie to head the lottery on an interim basis on Friday. Delacenserie is an old hand at the lottery, having started there in 2000 as a district manager based in Fort Myers. In 2005, he was named director of sales for the lottery before taking over as deputy secretary of sales and marketing in 2013. 

“Tom has over 30 years of experience in the private sector and 15 years of service at the Florida Lottery where he helped the organization hit their highest sales record ever,” Scott said. “Tom is laser-focused on making sure the Florida Lottery continues to contribute critical funding to our education system so students have the tools they need to succeed.”
 
As she leaves, O’Connell does have a feather in her cap as, on Thursday, LaFleur's 2015 World Lottery Almanac ranked the Florida Lottery as the second most efficient lottery in the nation behind only Massachusetts. LaFleur noted the Florida Lottery’s administrative expenses are only 2.8 percent while the New York Lottery’s administrative costs stand at 15 percent and the California Lottery’s are 5.6 percent. 

"The Florida Lottery remains committed to operating as efficiently and effectively as possible on behalf of all Floridians and we will continue to implement cost-saving measures and increase business efficiencies wherever possible," O'Connell said on Thursday.

 

Reach Kevin Derby at kderby@sunshinestatenews.com or follow him on Twitter: @KevinDerbySSN

Comments

Cindy got a little too cute with the state lottery credit card and was not in favor with the Medicare Fraud King. But what the heck? The lottery is one more example of white supremacists taking over a money making racket from colored folks. The lottery is just an extension of bolito, a game of chance started in Cuba and the islands long ago. At the time the money did not seem big enough for the real mobsters in government to bother with, so they let the serfs alone. But Dutch Shultz decided the Harlem folk were making too much money and he terrorized his way into the racket. He needed more money after the great social experiment known as Prohibition failed to take root and the massive profits that created todays Mob dwindled. You could play a nickel and win a dollar. Big money among poor folk back then. Mostly it was rigged. Bumpy Johnson later took over from Dutch, after Lucky killed him for wanting to kill Tom Dewey. Today, the state does not have to rig it. With odds of 20 million to one against winning, why cheat? I suppose it is a way to continue to rip off the poor and the black. How many times have you seen some poor soul pull into a convenience store on the massah's lawn mower and buy $100 worth of scratch offs? And the state continues to come up with new games! Like it matters! And then, of course, they do what they want with the money. "It is will go to education" they said. Horse hockey. They spend it however they want. It had more class when the Trafficante family ran it in Tampa in the 50's. The whole bunch of them should be in federal prison.

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