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1 frank mitchell // Jan 31, 2012 at 1:53 pm
Cheves is taking a very conveniently slanted position here. He is presuming that Thayer’s clients are racetracks because they could benefit from expanded gaming. BUT where was Thayer in 2010 and 2011 when the horse industry was lobbying hard to have expanded gaming?
Thayer was sitting tight with David “Blackjack” Williams, who refused to allow a bill on the issue get to the state senate floor.
So, instead of helping racing in Kentucky in 2010 and ’11, when Thayer was banking all this cash and deeply angering many in the horse community, he was actually working against their interests.
This article is so conveniently wrong-headed that I wonder who suggested the topic to Cheves, don’t you?
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