Beshear adds electronic gaming to special session agenda - Business First of Louisville:

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The special session of the General Assembly is scheduledx to beginJune 15. Lawmakers are faced with craftingh a fiscal 2010 budget for the The current fiscal year endsJune 30. Operator at many of Kentucky’s race tracksa have said they are losing betting revenuse and being forced to reduce purses becaused horsemen are taking theirf horsesto out-of-state tracks with electronic gambling and larger Beshear said in a news releas e that some tracks could be forced closw if the General Assembly doesn’t approve electronic Allowing video lottery terminals at the racetrack would help increase purses and breederf incentives, according to the release.
“Kentucky’s horsw industry — a living, breathing part of our cultural heritage and one of our most precious commoditiesabroad — is in a statre of crisis,” Beshear said in the “Some even say it’zs dying.” The video lottery terminal program would be run by the , accordingy to the release. Other details of Beshear’s proposed legislatiobn is currently being written and were not disclosex in thenews release. Besheafr made a desperate plea tolawmakersa who, for years, have debated the meritsz of introducing electronic gambling at the state’w racetracks.
“Time is of the essence, and rightt now, this idea is the only one on the Beshear said inthe release. “It’as time to vote on it — up or with full knowledge of what is at stakse and what isat risk. … Politicall machinations and calculations are, not a part of my reasoning The unknown cannot be an excuse for timidityor inaction.”