No do-overs on gambling law, please

gamblingPainful as it is to see the squabbling over the Sumner County casino, starting all over would be worse. So it came as a relief to learn that an effort Wednesday night by state Rep. Lance Kinzer, R-Olathe, to repeal the gambling law was futile. He tried to do so as an amendment to a pensions bill, of all things, but his amendment was ruled as not germane. “It was important to at least send the message that many people don’t view this as a settled issue,” Kinzer said afterwards.

3 Comments

  1. kelly
    Posted March 29, 2008 at 6:07 am | Permalink

    I don’t think anyone beyond a handful of echo-chamber occupants cares what Kinzer thinks.

  2. Tom
    Posted March 29, 2008 at 12:03 pm | Permalink

    South Topeka/southern Shawnee County residents take note: Your representative, Joe Patton (R, 54), set this vote up in advance with Kinzer. First, Patton suckered the House into approving an amendment to the KPERS bill that would fund a 3% cost of living allowance increase from the state’s lottery income. Immediately after that, Kinzer turned in a PREPARED IN ADVANCE amendment to repeal the lottery, hanging his amendment on the language providing the KPERS funding. Fortunately, the Republican Rules Committee Chair, Clark Schulz, wasn’t there at the time, and the Democratic Vice Chair, Tom Sawyer of Wichita, ruled the Kinzer amendment “non-germane.”

    The whole thing was a setup, from beginning to end, between Patton and Kinzer. These right-wing, so-called “conservatives” will use anything and anyone to advance their agenda of intolerance, including the pensions of Kansas retirees. They should be ashamed of themselves.

  3. exile
    Posted March 29, 2008 at 12:27 pm | Permalink

    paid off by land based casinos, bill frist added an anti-online gambling bill onto the ports bill in the middle of the night.

    so who had the nerve to vote against the ports security bill ??

    nobody, of course.

    since the bill included provisions to allow frist friend’s horse betting the u.s. got taken to the wto.

    after a couple or years the u.s. paid a huge fine and agreed to allow other countries to pirate u.s. intellectual property, without any cost.

    did the bill stop online gambling?

    not really. but the casino corporation was sold for a higher price.

    ain’t big business in the senate fun.

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