Terry McMahon's Awesome Blog

I need y'all to help me out here. I'm pretty sure there's a movie scene where a baseball player wins the lottery, everyone gets pissed at him for whooping it up, he asks a reporter why everyone's upset, and she says, "nobody likes the guy who wins the lottery twice."

He rarely takes a chance with lottery tickets, but, on a whim, Senator Judd Gregg, a notorious fiscal conservative, plunked down $20 for 20 Powerball tickets Monday night when he stopped at a gas station on his way to the Capitol for a vote.

That small, random investment won a stunned Gregg $853,492 yesterday, when he learned that he was one of 49 people to get a piece of the Powerball Lottery jackpot.

Thank you Boston Globe. In fairness, it's not like he grew up easy with his dad being a former president or anything. Actually, Judd Gregg's dad Hugh was governor of one of the smallest states in the country, well before it became the center of the presidential primary (incidentally, the shit is about to hit the fan on that one). So to imply that Judd Gregg doesn't deserve what he openly acknowledges is only about $500,000 after taxes is ridiculous. He's only held major elective office - U.S. House or higher - since 1980.

P.S.: I hate being somewhat honest. The Globe article also mentions this: "He added that he would give an unspecified portion of the cash to his family's Hugh Gregg Foundation, which helps local charities in New Hampshire." On the one hand, it is his money, but on the other hand, I mean, come on. Read the above imaginary movie scene.

(The image above is pretty sweet: it's three taps and foot-operated. Why hasn't anyone come up with this before? Thanks to fellow Elizabethtown moviegoer Katy Hight for the pickup.)