[UA] [OT] What's this?

[Stacy Stroud]

At 07:05 AM 4/2/02 -0600, Greg Stolze wrote:
>I suspect this is something like the legislative equivalent of a nuisance
>lawsuit.  T. Burch wants to make a point about how much he despises
>riverboat gambling, and he doesn't have a prayer of getting it outlawed
>conventionally because the money inertia is too big.  So he makes a gesture.


Close, but reversed.  Apparently it's a reductio ad absurdum proposal by a 
legislator who thinks Kentucky is losing too much revenue to neighboring 
states by its refusal to allow casinos.

See the Snopes entry at http://www.snopes.com/legal/kentucky.htm



Stacy Stroud (deadstop at gte.net)
(who lives in Kentucky, but only saw this yesterday on Snopes)


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