Atlanta celebs reveal plans for lotto winnings
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Published on: 02/22/08
What would you do if you won $270 million, the projected pot for Friday night's Mega Millions jackpot?
Braves outfielder JEFF FRANCOEUR, whose new wife Catie bought him a ticket last week, would "play golf the rest of my life."
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And quit baseball?
"Quit baseball," he said Friday morning from Braves spring training camp in Florida. "Believe it."
New Braves teammate MARK KOTSAY, an occasional player, said he'd "donate most of it" if he won. "Give it to my family."
Then the team's prized off-season acquisition thought about it a little more.
"I'd build a compound so all my family could live in one place," Kotsay said. "Then we wouldn't have to get baby-sitters."
Sometimes lottery player BARBARA DOOLEY, the former first lady of the Georgia Bulldogs, would " totally endow our Catholic high school here in Athens and Southern Catholic College in Atlanta."
That's No. 1 on her three-part to-do list.
"I would build my housekeeper a house," she said. "And I would buy Vince Dooley an airplane with a full-time pilot."
Falcons owner ARTHUR BLANK would give all of the winnings to his family foundation —"to end up back in society, where it came from. Recycling of sorts."
Atlanta Mayor SHIRLEY FRANKLIN would treat her extended family of 30 to two "much-needed" vacations —to Africa and Alaska.
The rest of the money would go to charity.
"The Homeless Commission, endow the Mayor's Youth Program for all Atlanta public school graduates' college educations, arts, set up a trust fund for my grandchildrens' college education, support Howard University, Talladega College and the University of Pennsylvania, pay off the balance due on the King papers, support human rights causes ..." she wrote in an e-mail Friday morning.
And Atlanta wouldn't have to search for a new mayor.
"I'd go back to work," Franklin said, "because I love my job."
Staff writer David O'Brien contributed to this article.



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