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May 05, 2008
Rise of the Casino Zombie
In The Lexington Herald Leader's editorializing, repetition often attempts to replace brevity as the soul of their wit.
After the fashion in which we saw years of pleas for a government takeover of Kentucky American Water Company, we can now expect to see repeated attempts to revive the dead casino gambling savior of Kentucky's misadventures in fiscal management .
In a column title "Beshear's second wind: Racing needs casino boost, but can governor rebound and deliver?" Larry Dale Keeling takes the first stab at it:
"Lately, though, the coming down seems to bottom out a little lower every year because the face we show the world on Derby Day increasingly misrepresents the reality of racing in this state.Sure, we’ll always be able to deliver glitz and glitter on the first Saturday in May because the Kentucky Derby is the greatest two minutes in sports, a race that annually draws up to 20 contenders and provides the best damn display of equine and human heart, strength, traffic skills and riding ability you’ll find in any race anywhere.
But the rest of the year can be a struggle for Kentucky tracks trying to remain competitive with their counterparts in the growing number of states where purses are supplemented by casino and racino gambling."
Given the size of the constituencies either opposed to casino gambling under any circumstances or simply opposed to casino gambling for the purpose of anything other than subsidizing politicians' spending habits, the Casino Zombie is sure to stay just as dead as the Water Zombie.
Posted by David Adams at May 5, 2008 06:58 AM
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