Selling The Iowa Lottery?

Gronstal and Kibbie are using the Des Moines Register as a trial balloon for their idea of selling the Iowa Lottery to some private company in order to get a huge money grab.

Don't you just love how they wrote Petroski's story for him? It contains all the usual BS talking points:

Two legislative leaders in Iowa say they are intrigued by an idea to sell the Iowa Lottery to private investors because it could generate a jackpot-sized payout for state programs such as education and road construction.

It's for the children! It's for the roads!

It's a floor wax!!! It's a dessert topping!!! It's anything you want it to be.

It's probably a terrible idea.