Despite being beaten by 20 points in November, and despite other Republican state senators saying the time has come for expanded gaming in Kentucky, David Williams continues to ferociously defend the Indiana casinos he reported losing tens of thousands of dollars at. 2012 should be the year Kentucky stops paying for Indiana’s roads, schools and government, and passes expanded gaming. But that’s not being factored into the budget plans for the next biennial budget:
Beshear, speaking to the press after a speech at the Kentucky Farm Bureau’s annual conference in Louisville, reaffirmed that he would push some sort of expanded gambling in the 2012 legislative session.
But he said he’s not planning on putting any estimated revenues in the 2012-2014 budgets.
As for what proposal Beshear plans to put forth — or what proposal he would personally like to see — the governor said he has no preference as long as the issue is passed.
The governor said he would be open a proposal that would either limit gambling to horse racetracks or create some free-standing casinos in addition.
“I think our racetracks need to be a part of any solution on expanded gaming,” he said.
Beshear did say he is aware that there may be enough Senate Republicans to pass a constitutional amendment, as Republican Senators Jimmy Higdon and Damon Thayer recently said on Pure Politics.
If your holiday shopping remains incomplete, talk to my mom.
When evil Wal-Mart rolled over downtown Paris 30 years ago, it sucked the oxygen out of downtown stores.
And then, a few antique stores moved in, then, the electrical lines were buried as part of a restoration, a few restaurants opened, and over a period of 25 years, downtown recovered.
This Saturday at 6 p.m., Lyn Layton is the grand marshal for the Paris Christmas parade, to honor her role in revitalizing a dying downtown.
Am I proud?
Figure it out. And then, come down and see some incredible antiques and Kentucky folk art.
Honestly, here’s hoping Richie Farmer gets some help. He has the 100-mile stare that only comes from being on nerve pills. While he’s not gonna get elected dogcatcher or be allowed to coach above the middle school level, he still could have some form of a second act.
There has always been a tension between the confidentiality requirements of for CHFS juvenile records and the need for public accountability to insure the protection function is properly served. Yesterday, some of that tension was addressed:
After multiple lawsuits and repeated calls for more transparency, Gov. Steve Beshear announced Tuesday that the state will release records of children who have been killed or nearly killed as a result of abuse or neglect.
At a Capitol news conference, Beshear announced that he also will introduce legislation in the upcoming session that would create an independent review panel to look at child fatalities and near fatalities and will propose legislation that would make it mandatory for the state to release records of such deaths.
In addition, the Cabinet for Health and Family Services will conduct a thorough review of the child-protection system and make changes if necessary, he said.
On Saturday, the defender of Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and anyone else with the bucks to pay him, Newt Gingrich, made an unusually passionate and salty attack on the 99 percent he is paid to lobby against, as Huffingtonpost noted:
“All the Occupy movement starts with the premise that we all owe them everything,” Gingrich said at the Thanksgiving Family Forum in Iowa, as noted by Igor Volsky at ThinkProgress. “They take over a public park they didn’t pay for, to go nearby to use bathrooms they didn’t pay for, to beg for food from places they don’t want to pay for, to obstruct those who are going to work to pay the taxes to sustain the bathrooms and to sustain the park, so they can self-righteously explain they are the paragons of virtue to which we owe everything.”
“That is a pretty good symptom of how much the left has collapsed as a moral system in this country, and why you need to reassert something by saying to them, ‘Go get a job right after you take a bath,’” continued Gingrich, to loud applause from the audience.
The Thanksgiving Family Forum, which was one more opportunity to hear from the GOP presidential candidates, was sponsored by the Family Leader, a group headed by controversial social conservative Bob Vander Plaats.
Vander Plaats and his group have claimed that homosexuality is a public health risk and suggested that children born into slavery were better off than those living in an America with Barack Obama as president.
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So why on earth would Newt get so suddenly passionate?
Simple—because he got punked up in Boston the night before by the 99 %. Turns out, the dirty Newt was trying to use a microphone that he didn’t pay for, to reach an audience in a hall that he didn’t pay for, to seek self-promotion. Sounds remarkably like the exact thing he was accusing the 99 % of, right?
So, watch (starting at about the 3:40 mark) what happens after Newt is introduced by Kentucky’s own Trey Grayson. When the Newt is shouted off the stage one night, little wonder that he would be attacking the 99 % the following evening.
Daniel Solzman, aka Solzy, center, above, is busting a move on a new forum. Fresh from his standup comedy gigs where he slayed them, now, you can buy the book.
From the author:
From the award-winning creator of Lazy Tuesday comes Turn That $#!+ Off, a series of comedic rants on politics, sports, entertainment, and life in general. Whether it is Shermageddon, Phonegate during the World Series or Netflix upsetting consumers, you will occupy this book for quite some time!
Nothing is untouched, including political scandals on both sides of the aisle! If you think you’ve heard it all, think again!
If you’ve watched Solzman’s stand-up on YouTube, he turns it up a notch in this book.
Barefoot and Progressive’s very own Joe Sonka provides the forward.
