claim: "i didn’t try to push" a bill to reduce lottery scholarship proceeds for students.
author: dolores gresham
evidence_1: ajc investigation of lottery funds intended for hope scholarships: officials ...  significant budget cuts and pushed more of the cost of college onto families. ...  raven searcy, a hope scholar with $15,000 in student loans, is trying to ... the  senate bill would require the lottery to hand over 28 percent of its proceeds by  2019, ...
evidence_2: the georgia lottery paid out $2.3 billion in prizes during the last fiscal year. ... "i  didn't try to push" a bill to reduce lottery scholarship proceeds for students.
evidence_3: mar 9, 2018 ... more: bill would make lottery scholarship a set amount, rather than percentage of  tuition. when ticket sales didn't cut it in new mexico, lawmakers turned to liquor ...  by removing a requirement that 30 percent of proceeds go to students. ... pushed  for the decoupling of scholarship values from tuition costs.
evidence_4: "i didn't try to push" a bill to reduce lottery scholarship proceeds for students. ...  on tennessee lottery revenues, reserve funds and gresham's false ruling.
evidence_5: aug 26, 2014 ... bill haslam discusses the tennessee promise with students at red bank high  school ... haslam didn't take long to change his mind about the project. ... haslam  has tried to take bredesen's college completion push to the next ... the bill, mostly  over concerns about the redirected lottery scholarship money.