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Too bad we have to depend on more gambling income to pay for our increased social programs. It goes like this, 1st you get say four from the state, then later four more, after that it’s one on every corner. Then we will be like say Montana.

God forbid George would ever need any help.

Watch it, George. Karma’s gonna git ya.

What can I say. The people of kansas must be some of the most ill informed morons on the face of this Earth. How else can you explain what we have allowed our state government to become? I’m not just talking about the current “regime”. Mr “High and Tight” before her was as bad and in someways worse. We have allowed the JoCo republican elites and limosine liberal democrats to take total control of this state. They have packed the courts with their lackeys and yesterdays ruling is the result. I guess the most discouraging part of this is that the people have come to accept it. There seems to be no outrage or disgust with this ridiculous ruling. Where is the outrage? Where was it in 94 when the state supreme court made an equally bogus ruling that claimed that the people of Kansas when they voted in the lottery in 87 also gave approval to casino gambling? Where was the outrage when a state court judge ruled in 90 that the state school finance system was unconstitutional which led to the state taking over all education funding? Where was the outrage in 05 when this same senile judge usurped the legislature and ordered it to increase school funding? Or when a state supreme court justice was found to be having clandestine meetings with leaders of the house and senate on school finance in clear violation of the law.
I’m sorry, I’m not the smartest person on the block, but to try and tell me that privately owned and operated casinos overseen by a quasi public organization like the Kansas Lottery meets the State Constitutional requirement of “State owned and State operated”, is totally ridiculous.

Chooseaside, you obviously have decided to not choose a side, but rather to have it both ways. How can you nod approvingly at the trashing of our State Constitution, just because you will benefit from this decision this time? Put aside your own partisan beliefs long enough to see what the long term ramifications are to this. We have allowed a totally corrupt court system and Attorney General to run roughshod over this once great state and our constitution. Its people like you who only look at how you can benefit that have allowed this to happen.

“Chooseaside, you obviously have decided to not choose a side,”

Yes, I did choose a side. That they are right and I am happy with it and you are wrong and I am happy you are not the one that matters.

And sunflower5 you are wrong about Kansas being the only state that owns casinos. I forgot which ones do now but I think there are 2 others. Do a search on state owned casinos.