Kentucky Rally for Slot Machines

While those in Ohio continue to fight against bringing in slot machines, the folks over in Kentucky keep fighting to bring them in. Residents are furious that they have not been allowed slot machines at their race tracks and they showed up in full to let their legislators know.
 
More than 900 people showed up at a rally against their state senators because of their anger over slot machines. They were upset that their senators rejected a bill that would have allowed an expansion of gambling of slot machines at the Kentucky horse tracks. They said that they had been fighting to get it approved as their tracks are dying from the competition because they don’t have slot machines and the other states’ do.
 
They now have to try to get their Senate Republicans to support the bill, or they’ve got to get rid of their Senators – according to several of those in the crowd. They say that if their representatives aren’t going to listen to them and bring in slot machines then they aren’t going to be their representatives. They claim that come Election Day some of these people might just find themselves on the Unemployment Line.
 
Governor Steve Beshear was at that rally as he wants to see the slot machines legalized as well. The House approved the bill, but the Senate did not, leaving them in the cold. Senate President David Williams, who is against slot machines at the tracks said that it would not have passed had it been allowed to go to a floor vote, but Beshear disagreed with him.

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