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Governor Betting Big On Anti-Casino Voters
POSTED: 5:24 pm EDT September 5, 2007
UPDATED: 5:54 pm EDT September 5, 2007
FRANKFORT, Ky. -- Gov. Ernie Fletcher released his third anti-casino advertisement Wednesday.
Fletcher said gambling has become a key issue in the November election because his Democratic opponent, Steve Beshear, has made it one.
The Fletcher ads have been set in Aurora, Ill -- a community west of Chicago. The people there aren’t happy with being embroiled in a Kentucky election.
Fletcher talks to a former Illinois state prosecutor in his latest TV ad, who described the differences since the casinos came.
“We didn’t have people stealing money from cemetery associations,” the prosecutor told Fletcher.
Fletcher said voters need to know about casinos before inviting them into “our Kentucky home.”
Fletcher’s ads detail how gambler Norma Brandt lost $241,000 by gambling every day.
Meanwhile, Aurora’s police chief said crime has actually decreased and city officials said the casino has mean millions to their local economy. Each year, officials calculate Kentuckians spend more than a billion dollars in neighboring states.
According to Fletcher, Beshear made the November election a referendum for casino gambling.
He said clearly on this campaign, this year, that he would not get it passed
“He can talk all he wants about casinos, but every time he does, he shows how little he understands about the real issues concerning Kentucky, like good paying jobs, affordable health care and education for our children,” Beshear spokeswoman Vicki Glass said.
Fletcher is talking about those issues on the campaign trail. He visited Louisville Wednesday discussing senior citizen issues.
But, believing that casino gambling is a hot-button issue, Fletcher is spending a lot of money and energy warning about its ills. And he said he has at least one more ad he plans to run before the November election. |
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