Comments on: Slots Bill halfway home, but in danger http://kykurmudgeon.bloginky.com/2009/06/22/slots-bill-halfway-home-but-in-danger/ Larry Keeling on Kentucky politics Sun, 22 Nov 2009 08:37:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: Jack http://kykurmudgeon.bloginky.com/2009/06/22/slots-bill-halfway-home-but-in-danger/#comment-1255 Jack Mon, 22 Jun 2009 15:13:26 +0000 http://kykurmudgeon.bloginky.com/?p=1014#comment-1255 The horse industry should be like any other business. If they can't compete, get out of the business or file bankruptcy like the small business moms and pops have to do as well as business connected to the auto industy, the coal industry. If they get in trouble, all we hear is a re-training program for those who suffer from those lay-offs. Maybe we need a program to re-train the horse industry! I think the EPA and environmentalists should demand that the legislature pass a tax on the horse industry for producing manure in the field which drains into the streams and pollute them. They surely demand that of the coal industry when they think a stream is polluted because of them. You give Stumbo credit for getting 52 votes when his party is in control with over 60 votes. Some of those who voted for it was against it until he promised 700 million to schools and God knows what else he promised. Where did the money come from which built the schools thirty, forty, and fifty years ago? We didn't have to have a lottery, KERA and slots to build them then. All this slot bill is for is for the business men in the horse industry to make more money. The horse industry should be like any other business. If they can’t compete, get out of the business or file bankruptcy like the small business moms and pops have to do as well as business connected to the auto industy, the coal industry. If they get in trouble, all we hear is a re-training program for those who suffer from those lay-offs. Maybe we need a program to re-train the horse industry! I think the EPA and environmentalists should demand that the legislature pass a tax on the horse industry for producing manure in the field which drains into the streams and pollute them. They surely demand that of the coal industry when they think a stream is polluted because of them. You give Stumbo credit for getting 52 votes when his party is in control with over 60 votes. Some of those who voted for it was against it until he promised 700 million to schools and God knows what else he promised. Where did the money come from which built the schools thirty, forty, and fifty years ago? We didn’t have to have a lottery, KERA and slots to build them then. All this slot bill is for is for the business men in the horse industry to make more money.

]]> By: Ben Lookofsky http://kykurmudgeon.bloginky.com/2009/06/22/slots-bill-halfway-home-but-in-danger/#comment-1254 Ben Lookofsky Mon, 22 Jun 2009 14:41:15 +0000 http://kykurmudgeon.bloginky.com/?p=1014#comment-1254 Why would the Governor schedule and call a Special Session if he did not have the votes for a "slot bill"..Actually litigation if same passed would result in the nullification of this bill and any other business of this illegal special session. Why illegal you aske??? Please read the Rose Case which declared the educational system unconstitutional as it was..The court there stated that a special session can only be called in the case of an emergency...Are any of the subjects on the docket an emergency??? NO!!!!!!!! Why you ask??? Because these same subjects were considered at the regular session and not acted upon...What has changed since the last general session in January, 2009...Nothing therefore these topics can only be acted on in January,2010...But let the genius we send to Frankfort and Washington vote anyway as no one will oppose them..I would suggest that these geniuses be required to pay all of the expenses for this illegal "special session..." Why would the Governor schedule and call a Special Session if he did not have the votes for a “slot bill”..Actually litigation if same passed would result in the nullification of this bill and any other business of this illegal special session.

Why illegal you aske??? Please read the Rose Case which declared the educational system unconstitutional as it was..The court there stated that a special session can only be called in the case of an emergency…Are any of the subjects on the docket an emergency??? NO!!!!!!!!

Why you ask??? Because these same subjects were considered at the regular session and not acted upon…What has changed since the last general session in January, 2009…Nothing therefore these topics can only be acted on in January,2010…But let the genius we send to Frankfort and Washington vote anyway as no one will oppose them..I would suggest that these geniuses be required to pay all of the expenses for this illegal “special session…”

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