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Churchill Downs Fighting Williams

Senate President David Williams had his hands full Wednesday during a Louisville panel on the horse racing industry in the state of Kentucky. There were many people in the audience that had opinions on where the industry needed to be headed and how it might get there, and one of those people was Churchill Downs Inc.’s President and CEO Bob Evans.

Evans argued that without allowing slot machines to come in that the state was allowing the tracks to die. He said that there were so many other tracks that had been allowed in neighboring states to have slot machines that they were putting theirs out of business. He said that they had real possibilities for the state to come back better than ever, but that slot machines needed to be legalized for that to happen.

He said that Williams and his supporters were bound and determined to let the racing industry in the state die off rather than give them slot machines. Williams said that there was a bill that needed to be passed that could resuscitate the tracks and save the hundreds of thousands of jobs that are related to the racing community, and all they had to do was legalize slot machines.

Williams argued with Evans’ interpretation of the events, saying that his comments were “false and misleading.” He said that it was under his leadership that they got the extra money that was coming toward the racing industry. Others in the meeting said that they did not agree with Williams’ accounting of the details and that they wanted slot machines to help the industry as well.

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