So, the AG, also one of the candidates for US Senator will make the legal decison on the constitutional amendment.

I wonder.

Conway has family in the HORSE BUSINESS.

The Governor dumped the decision in the lap of Conway. He will decide with the current administratin of which he is a part.
The real challenge will come in court. Cease and disist will occur for the issue if it passes.

Jack Conway lives in Louisville home of the KENTUCKY DERBY and a long list of political donors.

As a candidate for the US Senate, AG Conway would rather not have been involved in this decision. But, he is.

UP or DOWN?

Well, the truth is . . . we ain't been telling THE TRUTH, about HORSES. If you did any reading over the week-end you will see that Kentucky is not about to loose its edge in Thoroughbred breeding. As a matter of fact Thoroughbred breeding in Kentucky has risen in the past few years. It all laid in in a very well written and research article by John Chevis, reporter for the Lexington Herald Leader. And it was Chevis who did the research for the writing. And, he pretty much laid out THE PERCEPTION that exist in the Slot Machine dual.

Facts say . . . It AIN'T AS BAD AS IT HAS BEEN REPORTED. As a factual matter even if you don't read the entire story. . . . the headlines say it pretty clear. BESHEAR, LOBBYIST, USE DIRE LANUAGE BUT EXAGGERATE PLIGHT.

In plain language that says the horse industry has manipulated information to make it appear there exist an extreme emergency. When, actually it is not. The real Breeders are holding on but the smaller farms with less significant bloodlines are having some trouble. Welcome to the real world . . . we are all having trouble right now with our expenses. The facts stated in Mr. Chives writing are pretty clear.

Thoroughbred Breeding in Kentucky has increased from 19% to 31%. Kentucky has been making headway in Thoroughbred Breeding since the early nineties. Now, with 31% of the market for Breeding and an increase from 19% of the market, to over one third of the total breeding market, the figures do not indicate or confirm the convoluted information given by Governor Beshear and Keep. Take the time to read John Chevis article in the Herald . . . it will open your ears and your eyes to the real thing, based on facts, and not perception. REALIZING the Herald Leader is located in the heart of the Horse Business, it would serve the Herald Leader market, much better to have both sides of the issue.

Well this is the first time the real facts have been know, yet Tom Eglin and Larry Dale Keeling, again remind us of the dire straights the horse industry in in.

Excuse me . . . but in the good old USA, sports venues are more diversified than ever and with so much SPORTS the spending dollar has been attracted to many other forms of sports entertainment. It was the CASINOS and their floating gambling palaces that started the change. AS more gambling became available individuals split their sports entertainment money on many other forms of sports entertainment. Now, because CASIONOS and floating GAMBLING PALACES, near by, that money, some of it, and no one can tell you exactly how much, is going to places where Casinos gain 85% of their profits from SLOT MACHINES. The tracks would gladly give up the table games for the slots. As slots play on the lower economic scale were individuals are less fortunate . . .

Now the HORSE people wants in on part of the action. And, they have been successful in expanding in other dumb down states. However, this year INDIANA had to expand SLOTS TO MANY OTHER STRUCTURES because the revenue from gambling is down. Guess what, . . . a lot of other, more serious things, are down right now.

The administration complains about revenue shortfall, but little is done to pull in the horns of the PORK DISTIBUTORS, members of the General Assembly.This kind of spending has been going on too long. And, someone needs to have the courage to step up to the members of the Assembly and just tell it like it is. All new bills must show the revenue stream to cover the cost of new legislation. If that can not be done . . .then our Governor and General Assembly can cancel the projects and save us some bucks, lots of bucks.

Don't be surprised if the EDUCATION PEOPLE are the first to complain. Years ago, we approved a lottery to add a new revenue source for Education. Yet, the cost to administer the LOTTERY is much higher than it should be. Last check of records shows the lottery uses over 65% of its revenue for administration purpose.There is new information out there now, and if citizens will read and think, then perhaps citizens would not be annoyed now, as much as in the past, for a revision of Kentucky Tax structure. The Governor has painted the desperate picture and a lot of citizens take it as PLAIN TRUTH. If the General Assembly is ever going to do TAX REVISON the time is now. As for the HORSES . . . If you good at what you do, you are a survivor. If you feed off of the scraps in an industry, then the first down turn, and your in trouble. Could there be too many thoroughbred horses . . . for the market . . .? Could there be too many tracks? It is a dilemma, but if the Governor's main priority at his time is money for THE HORSES and bread and water for the citizens.

Incidentally, the lottery law and expanded gambling has been to the ATTORNEY GENERAL WITH FIVE RULINGS. They all say the same . . . No other forms of gambling may be used by the lottery amendment. Poor old Jack Conway, the burden and the Governor and his Horse People are looking at AG Conway to give them the answer they want, even in light of five other decis0ons that say. . . . NO, NOT, NADA.

I just wanna say!

Jim Anderson Stivers

Frankfort, KY>