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Governor Charlie Crist suggests adding lottery games to generate money. Crist recommends generating about 250 million dollars from the Florida Lottery. Officials with the governor’s office said the money would come from adding lottery terminals, more marketing, and midday drawings. The money would go to fund education. A spokesperson for the State Lottery said they’re always looking to change and add games.

“We’ll just continue on our mission and our mandate to raise as much money as we can and transfer it to education and try to make it available for those vital programs,” said Barreiros, a spokesperson for the Florida Lottery.

The budget recommendations also suggested taking more than a billion dollars from state reserves and trust funds.