Monday, 4 February 2008
Be Ready for More Coincidences
Financial details about funding for last fall's political 527s are now being made public. 527's are political organizations that are formed to collect cash and generally spend it on attacking candidates. Bluegrass Freedom Fund and Kentucky Victory 2007 were two of these organizations that spent millions of dollars attacking Fletcher. I doubt it will come as a surprise to many that the gambling and equine industries pumped millions of dollars into these political funds.
The Bluegrass Freedom Fund, an independent campaign group, raised $3,150,000, of which 70 percent -- more than $2.2 million -- came from gambling and equine interests, according to tax documents filed just before midnight Thursday.
Other contributors to the fund, which is known as a "527" because of its IRS designation, include unions and other Democratic backers. Such funds have no contribution limit, and donors can give even after they have maxed out other state and federal contributions.
Several donors also gave heavily to another Democratic fund, Kentucky Victory 2007.
Hmm, with all of this money being spent by pro-gaming forces, I wonder how it will effect the decision Beshear makes on who should be awarded casinos?
Beshear said Friday night the donations will have no bearing on who gets one of up to a dozen casinos.
Excellent! He said it himself. I am now absolutely positive that all of this money that helped him get elected will have absolutely no bearing whatsoever on his decisions. If most of the people who gave to these funds are awarded casinos in the plan then it will be purely incidental. I can't imagine this administration lowering themselves to such simple acts of patronage anyway.
