Larry Clark This is Me

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1. 1. Sponsors of Kentucky Gaming Bills Outline Proposals - bloodhorse.com

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   Published on: 2/23/2006   Last Visited: 2/23/2006

   Larry Clark.
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   Clark said constitutional amendments should be "simple and sweet" and threatened he would "work against" any plan that contained such allocations.
   
   "If you stay the course you're going, you're going to be DOA on arrival," Clark said.
   
   Barrows has said the state could eventually collect about $350 million annually, while KEEP has estimated that number could be more than $430 million.
   
   Still, the Rev. Nancy Jo Kemper, head of the Kentucky Council of Churches, said she did not "buy their numbers." Kemper said she thought the "social cost" to Kentucky would surpass the state's share of gambling revenue and it could jeopardize the horse industry.
   
   "They are playing with fire, and it will really destroy the horse industry," she said.

2. 2. Lexington Herald-Leader | 03/04/2004 | Panel to vote on casinos next week

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   Published on: 3/4/2004   Last Visited: 3/4/2004

   Larry Clark, D-Louisville, indicated that he expects them to pass. "If they can't pass out of committee, we're in trouble. Nine of the committee members are co-sponsors of the bills," Clark said.
   
   Clark wasn't sure when or whether the bills would come up for a vote by the full House. "I won't call it up until I've got the votes," he said.
   
   The Rev. Nancy Jo Kemper, executive director of the Kentucky Council of Churches, which is a member of Citizens Against Gambling Expansion, said yesterday she does not think the bill will pass the General Assembly, in part because of possible disagreements within the horse industry.
   
   "I'm still, frankly, not sure they have an agreement," Kemper said, referring to Clark and the tracks.
   
   Kemper said legislators need to address the state's budget needs directly -- through a cigarette tax increase and tax reforms -- instead of through "attempts to get something for nothing."
   
   Clark has proposed a constitutional amendment to allow casino gambling at nine sites around the state -- five at racetracks and four elsewhere. The state estimates the casinos could generate $1.25 billion a year in revenue when mature, with the state getting 35 percent of that.
   
   Clark said he does not expect much revenue before 2006, with the casinos hitting full projections around 2011.
   
   Casinos would be at Turfway Park in Florence, Thunder Ridge in Prestonsburg, Kentucky Downs in Franklin, a site in downtown Louisville run by Churchill Downs, a Lexington site to be shared by Keeneland and The Red Mile, at Owensboro's convention center, along Interstate 24 near Hopkinsville, along Interstate 75 south of Corbin, and at another site along the state border, possibly either Ashland or Maysville.
   
   Racing industry officials will meet Monday with Clark, who is also speaker pro tem, to iron out remaining disagreements.
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   Clark has demanded that Churchill "be good corporate citizens" and build along the riverfront.

3. 3. NEWS STORIES

   www.lewistownsentinel.com/news - [Cached]

   Published on: 10/26/2002   Last Visited: 10/26/2002

   Before leaving for another commitment, Benninghoff was berated by Larry Clark, a Citizen's Help Group member, about how there have been more than 300 pieces of legislation on tax reform and fairness introduced in the legislature and little has been accomplished. Benninghoff pointed out that legislation does work and gave the example of Mifflin Countians voting to repeal the occupation assessment tax in November 2001 as a triumph in tax reform.