Comments on: Senators may push for an amendment on racetrack gambling

By: Jim Anderson Stivers

Jim Anderson Stivers — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 16:34:19 +0000

Mr. Wilcher, Sir . .

You apparently know nothing of gambling addiction with statements like this.

Wilcher,
I’m all for it, better then the money going out of state, if you can actually call driving .25 miles across a river “out of state” but we definitely aren’t getting the tax dollars.

MR. WILCHER, YOU HAVE NO IDEA HOW MUCH MONEY IS BEING SPENT BY KENTUCY GAMBLERS IN INDIANA. THERE IS NO back up to confirm the amount. Only speculation made by the KEEP SURVEY, about four years ago.

All this BS about “whoa the addiction” is just that; when was the last time you helped in a homeless shelter, donated funds to the many churches that take the homeless in during the winter months or dedicated your time to make the less fortunate lives a little better.

I can tell you have done no reading on this subject.

If expanded gambling comes to Kentucky in the next five years 100,000 Kentucky citizens will become gambling addicts or problem gamblers. FACT.

Compulsive gambling in the number one mental health issue in the United States.

When gambling comes to close proximity of a Casino . . . the suicide rate for children goes up 3%.

Mr. Wilcher, . . . Do some reading about the subject and then post. What you post is generic like so many others that talk from emotions and not being informed.

GOOGLE will give you the info…

“I just wanna say.”

Jim Anderson Stivers

By: Dan

Dan — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 17:36:21 +0000

It’s the golden rule Mike. He who has the gold, makes the rules.

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 15:19:33 +0000

I just want to know one thing how come when something is against the law,they can change the law to suit them and any one else does it they would get prosecuted for it.Don’t get me wrong I do love to gamble but one time I was at a small poker game and the law busted it up and treatened to take everyone to jail,but when they want to do it,they can change the laws on it.I believe that if gambling is going to be legalized,so should everything else or vote these people out of office.

By: Indian Chollie

Indian Chollie — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 14:51:57 +0000

It would be a hoot watching Farish and Brereton Jones and Tracy Farmer oppose the people voting on this issue. Hey, how about all out real casinos with a generous cut for race purses? What say ye breeders Farish and Jones and Farmer?

By: Dan

Dan — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 13:34:14 +0000

Let’s hope the anti gambling legislators do just as much to shut down the cockfighting pits littered all over eastern Kentucky as they do to stop expanded gambling at the horse tracks.

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Tue, 20 Oct 2009 02:02:34 +0000

[...] Lexington Herald-Leader is reporting tonight that Senate leaders may, in the coming days, launch a full-scale push for a constitutional [...]

By: Ryan Wilcher

Ryan Wilcher — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 01:12:53 +0000

I’m all for it, better then the money going out of state, if you can actually call driving .25 miles across a river “out of state” but we definitely aren’t getting the tax dollars.

I’m willing to bet none because it is easy to have the Williams HOLIER THAN THOU attitude when it is merely words.

This is entertainment, plain and simple otherwise I want to hear about getting rid of all the liquor licenses, tobacco retailers and bingo parlors.

Take your mores else where since all the HOT AIR is depleting the ozone.

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 00:21:35 +0000

These people borrow money from the government to do this so called “war on drugs” only thing they have done is locked people up and took their kids away but they did a study on this after millions of dollars was given to these orginaztions,to find out that the drug problem is 30-40 percent worser so we know that locking them up is not the answer.Instead of wasting money,throwing it away,and taking these peoples children away from them,get these people help with their disease and save all of us taxpayers money in the long run,if you want to do something to help the people.

By: Dawn

Dawn — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 23:52:19 +0000

They want to put a casino in a horse track in Ky,when the economy is so low and take what little money people have saved thinking they can win big besides doing something about the corruption that is going on in ky.We have people here that is dying in our jail cells and being locked up over crazy non-violent charges.Instead of trying to help these sick people with the disease of addiction,they just want to lock them up.

By: Larry Galt

Larry Galt — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 23:46:44 +0000

Sounds like bully Williams still is flipping and rather live by his motto of “do as I say not as I do”.

Where is the real leadership we deserve?