One organization leading this effort calls itself the Kentucky Equine Education Project. It proclaims casino gambling limited to racetracks to be the savior of the threatened horse industry and at the same time a source of new revenue for state and local government. Among its members is former governor Brereton Jones, a Woodford County horseman.

and also this

Casino gambling is just the latest in a short but growing list of
creative ways to finance government.
Like the lottery, it would
probably slow the drift of Kentuckians crossing borders to spend their
money. And just as the lottery did, it would encourage other bordering
states to consider casino gambling. Tennessee would likely follow, as
it did with the lottery, to keep its residents from coming to Kentucky
to pay their sin taxes. And we will then be measuring what effect that
will have on our state and local budgets.

I SAY:  Kentuckians are going to gamble.  There is just a certain percentage of people that want to do it.  Why limit ourselves to letting the Racetracks own everything.  They have survived this long against out of state casinos.  In fact Churchill Downs is less than a 1/2 from a major Southern Indiana casino.  Let us keep the this revenue in the State.

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