Comments on: BOREL: LET KENTUCKY TRACKS COMPETE WITH VLTs

By: Noelle

Noelle — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 15:20:03 +0000

Mr. Redmond - what “rush” to slot machines? Surely you must be aware that they’ve been under consideration for years.

Senator Williams’ plan depends on taxes and tax increases. So exactly how does the Williams plan secure the industry’s future in Kentucky? Even supposing the people of Kentucky approve new taxes and the re-allocation of existing taxes away from their current uses - which is unlikely - there’s absolutely no guarantee that future governors and legislators will continue to allocate tax money as Williams proposes doing. Future governors and legislators will have their own priorities and then what happens to an industry made entirely dependent on tax dollars by the Williams plan?

Slots will provide KY tracks with a permanent source of revenue, independent of politics and politicians.

The Williams plan is similar to various plans suggested at various times by the anti-slots forces in Maryland whose real goal was to block slots at any cost, even at the cost of killing racing in Maryland - a goal which they’re close to achieving, by the way.

By: Hey Billy

Hey Billy — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 14:29:50 +0000

Hey Billy, I hate to point out that you are the one who is attempting to humiliate Calvin Borel, not KEEP or anyone else. Calvin sounds pretty good in the radio commercial. Good for him for taking a stand.

By: Billy Crockett

Billy Crockett — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 04:04:07 +0000

I challenge KEEP and its PR mercenaries to put Calvin Borel in a room and ask him to write an essay on anything without it being edited.

He’s a great guy but he couldn’t speak a coherent paragraph…much less write one.

It really shows the lack of class of the KEEP leadership to put Borel in such a humiliating situation.

Maybe KEEP’s next move will be an editorial supposedly written by a horse.

By: Benny the Bull

Benny the Bull — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 01:09:30 +0000

It was Irish author and dramatist, Brendan Behan who said, â€œThereâ€™s no such thing as bad publicity except your own obituary.â€ Let’s hope this is not applicable tof the Kentucky horse industry.

Shakespeare. Maybe not even Christopher Marlowe but rather Roger Bacon?

By: Garrett Redmond

Garrett Redmond — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 00:43:56 +0000

As WS might have put it: “A nod, is as good as a wink - to a blind horse”. A ‘modern’ would write: “Some people never get the message.” As Rob Whiteley noted, “….be grateful for the message.”

Read the message. His secretary got it all down, verbatim, as he said the words. There is nothing in it that Calvin could not have said.

Personally, I feel it is the wrong message. I’m not a member of our local Taliban (i.e., no sinning on Sunday) but slots are not the answer to our problems. The proposed distribution of the “millions” appears to include a chunk for ‘Breed Registries’ !!!!!!
Does that mean we are going to give money to The Jockey Club - where the Chief Executive takes home close to a million a year !?!?!?!?

If you want to see a State-run disaster, look no further than the KY Breeders Incentive Plan.

Sen. Williams’s alternative proposal has many good features. His plan deserves as much discussion and consideration as the rush to slot machines.

By: Keenelander

Keenelander — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 23:51:40 +0000

Kudos to KEEP for this resourcefulness. It’s about time we got the jocks and someone outside of the Golden Triangle involved. Suppose we had Alex Waldrop or Greg Avioli doing the pitch from the throne (much less “Bob Evans). I suppose the latter would work for hotcakes. Anyone who thinks otherwise doth protest too much, methinks.
PS. My money is on Christopher Marlowe.

By: Small Stakes Steve

Small Stakes Steve — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 23:15:25 +0000

Amen Brother. I would rather have a ghost-written Calvin Borel lending his name to something equine — in this case a critical issue for those of us in the trenches (the future of Kentucky racing) — than some Bluegrass Blueblood flacking for gaming. This is huge Calvin rocks.

By: Ann Banks

Ann Banks — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 23:11:26 +0000

Thank you Calvin.

By: Rob Whiteley

Rob Whiteley — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 22:54:53 +0000

Let’s not get lost in authorship, but be grateful for the message. Do you know who wrote Shakespeare’s 36 plays and hundred plus sonnets? Was it William Shakespeare? Was it Christopher Marlowe? Was it both of them in collaboration? Do we care? ….. or are we just thankful those works were written to make our quality of life better?

By: Benny the Bull

Benny the Bull — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 19:52:57 +0000

Maybe Calvin penned this on Saturday afternoon while hanging around the Belmont jocks room with a whole bunch of time on his hands.