Blue Grass Red State

The Governor of Kentucky is calling a special session to settle the issues of our budget, or so he says. But all of the focus isn’t on our budget issues as much as it is on his passion to increase gambling in Kentucky. Sure, we aren’t going to have the Bellagio built in downtown Lexington, but he is pushing to have slots at race tracks, and that is just the first step down this slope.

But what gets my ire this day is not his asinine solution to our budget, its the cavalier way that he is spending the Commonwealth’s money throwing a lavish party at the Governor’s Mansion after the first day of the special session and we get to pay for it. It is like his master who speaks in the afternoon of our economic doom and then takes Air Force One to New York for a date with his wife, all at the tax payer’s expense. When will all this madness end?