Slots pass KY House; Williams making Senate vote dubious

[Riot]

A&R Committee - According to Paulick, the final vote count:

Charlie Borders - R, Chairman - NO
Robert (Bob) Leeper - I, Vice Chairman - NO
David Boswell - D - YES
Tom Buford - R - YES
Denise Harper Angel - D - YES (Churchill District, father retired trainer)
Ernie Harris - R - NO
Dan Kelly - R - NO
Alice Forgy Kerr - R - NO (Lexington)
Vernie McGaha - R - NO
RJ Palmer - D - Abstain
Joey Pendleton - D - YES
Tim Shaughnessy - D - YES
Brandon Smith - R - NO
Robert Stivers - R - NO
Gary Tapp - R - NO
Elizabeth Tori - R - NO
Jack Westwood - R (Westwood is traveling out of the country and will not be present to vote) - Absent

So they need 9 votes? S.hit.

It's done.

[Riot]

Unbelievable

7:15 p.m. … Let’s cut right to it. After a computer failure, I can report that the measure failed to get the committee support and will not be sent to the full Senate. Voting no were Sens. Harris, McGaha, Smith, Stivers, Tapp, Tori, Westwood. Voting yes were Boswell, Buford, Angel, Pendleton and Shaughnessy.

The room cleared quickly, many of the people from the horse industry leaving with long, sad faces. One horse owner, Jack Smith, shouted in the direction of Republican Sen. Damon Thayer, "You will never get another penny of support from me," Smith told Thayer, who is a consultant to the horse industry and a former Breeders’ Cup and Turfway Park executive. Thayer called the remark inappropriate and said he was not a member of the committee that rejected the slots bill. Thayer never came out in support of the bill, either. And for a senator who claims to be the Thoroughbred industry’s point man on Kentucky legislation, that speaks volumes.

It's going to get real ugly now.

[otisotisotis]

Too bad...I guess that will effectively end TP and Ellis in the near future.

[philcski]

sickening but no shocker... I'm SOOOOOOOOOOOOO glad that the pandering politicians in this state can make life decisions for me. What a joke.

[philcski]

Here's the P.O.S. that killed Kentucky racing.