Comments on: GOP donors with horse ties cross party lines in state Senate race

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By: Buck Feshear

Buck Feshear — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 18:08:42 +0000

Would anyone actually care about — or attend — horse racing if there was not gambling involved? Take away the betting aspect and you would probably have fewer people at a horse race than you would get at a Republican county meeting in Knott County. As a spectator sport horse racing does not have the appeal of basketball, football, NASCAR or baseball.

By: George Baldwin

George Baldwin — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 20:54:57 +0000

Giving the horse industry control over expanded gambling is as ignorant as can be. I will NEVER again vote for anyone who votes for it. This includes our local loud mouth supporter Dennis Keene who also played follow the leader by voting for the liquor and cigarette taxes. H can probably retire with his payola bank anyway.

By: True Conservative

True Conservative — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 15:48:32 +0000

Same Ole – it’s precisely because Conservatives believe that individuals are responsible for their own actions that any true Conservative would not oppose slots or horseracing. Whether or not to gamble is an individual choice that should be left to the individual. David Williams may be a Republican on the far right of the moralizing spectrum, but he’s not a Conservative.

That said, I’m sorry that slots are needed to save Kentucky’s horse industry. Horse racing is a fabulous, exciting sport with great competition, great drama and great stars. It’s not succeeding on its own, in my opinion, because it’s micro-managed and micro-marketed on a state-by-state basis rather than as the national pastime it could be with national, rational management and marketing.

By: jimbo

jimbo — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 15:24:56 +0000

It’s raining and cold outside but I’m warmed by the thought that the Bully from Burkesville is going down over gambling. Irony is soooo sweet. And the news that the nat GOP is developing a litmus test for republican leadership is frosting on the cake. Some days are just better than others.

By: Buck Feshear

Buck Feshear — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 14:10:42 +0000

I support casino gambling in Kentucky, but only if it is NOT tied to the horse industry. Casinos should be built in regions with high unemployment (to provide jobs) and small property tax bases (to increase the flow of tax revenue to poor counties) and they should be full-blown resort casinos, not slot machine havens. I am no fan of the horse industry and I still say that I am against propping it up with a gimmick like slot machines. If it can’t survive on entertainment value (personally, I wouldn’t walk across the street to see a horse race for free) or the take from parimutuel betting, it deserves to fail.

By: Moderate Republican

Moderate Republican — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 13:14:46 +0000

Ben 4 lib, how is any of that rhetoric going to make a larger purse prize for winning a horse race in Kentucky? How is any of that going to allow tracks to offer larger bonuses for breeding in Kentucky? If the tracks do not have the money to offer, then the horse industry will go to where the money is. Now THAT is basic common sense. Your Palin-esque rhetoric offers no details and is only talking points that have no substance. If we do not give the KY horse industry the tools to compete, we won\’t have a horse industry to give a tax break or any of that other parrot-repeated bullcrap you hear on FOX News.

By: Same Ol'

Same Ol' — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 12:43:45 +0000

Same ole’, same ole’. Conservatives want to say individuals should be accountable for their own actions but… Bring in the racetracks, betting and all the other vices.

You can’t have it both ways.

Outside money and lobbyist will drive change, one direction or another, until they are taken out of the equation.

McConnell has benefited for years by this and Bully Williams says one thing but does many others.

Gotta love it when others try to drive your life.

By: Big Ben 4 liberty

Big Ben 4 liberty — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 05:02:01 +0000

Wow the horse racing industry is pathetic. I sorry to to all the lovers of the one-arm bandits, but it s not going to help the horse racing in Kentucky. As i said before only real free market policies will do that. And it will absolutely not bring any meaningful economic development to the state. Only actual pro-growth policies like lower taxes, cutting wasteful spending, eliminating the prevailing wage scam, and a right-to-work law would genuinely help this state’s economy. Sorry Moderate RINO, this isn’t about capitalists verses conservatives, this is about corporatist crony capitalists versus plain basic common sense.

It is no surprise to me, that they would all line up to support their new political whore, even if is another recycled partisan hack of the Beshear machine. This why both parties in this state are rapidly becoming a bad joke that will lead us into continued decline.

By: Miranda

Miranda — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 04:36:21 +0000

Sending some serious love vibes to rich republicans. My first time.