Michigan Governor Veto’s HB 5466/Horse Racing Industry & Throws 12,000+ Jobs Down The Toilet.

THE CROOKS MAKE IT THIS WAY.
http://www.legislature.mi.gov/(S(eezplz45oetc2s55ny3dgvv1))/mileg.aspx?page=BillStatus&objectname=2012-HB-5546

12/31/2012

Expected in HJ 85

pocket veto 1/11/2013 @ 11:07 AM 2012 ADDENDA

What Excuse Can He Give? A man who ran on JOBS.

A Proposal???

Yeah we voted an Emergency Manager down for DETROIT.

A Proposal completely ignored.

Indiana has RACINOS, OHIO is building new RACINOS, Illinois is about to give the OK for RACINOS.

We asked for a band-aid as in Instant racing and this Hypocrite Piece Of Shit say’s in essence to 12,000 jobs connected to the Horse Racing Industry here in Michigan:

GO FUCK YOURSELF.

How else can I put it. Kindly?

I say it like it is.

Why doesn’t WXYZ, WDIV, WJBK do an investigation as to how many are being paid off by the three Detroit Casinos to slaughter Horse Racing in a state where Horse Racing at one time stood alone and held up Michigan with $400 Million a year in Revenue. Had over 42,000 JOBS connected to it.

Long before LOTTERY, Long before Tribunal Casinos and certainly looooooooooong before three Commercial Detroit Casinos.

Governor Snyder can go drop dead. He is a FARCE.

He cuts the throats of those who WORK.

The Nerd who makes nothing but POLITICAL MOVES and destroys everything in his path.

He is PATHETIC.

What Explanation if any can he give?

DAN ADKINS CAN GO TO HELL

Reblogged from Longshot's Blog:

Dan Adkins is an Imbecile.

Thinking he can attempt to swindle unknowing individuals into this so called Petition to SAVE MI. RACING. When as written the only ones who will be saved is this GROUP he's been hired by. Bernard Hartman and Herbert Tyner. Hazel Park Raceway real estate moguls. Or rather MORONS.

Recent Articles in the Oakland Press & …

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Michigan Legislators: Nothing Has Changed. This is the same damn story and the same damn dance. Dan Adkins and who he represents are trying their best to kill LIVE Thoroughbred Horse Racing in the State. Read Original Blog from almost two years ago. No wool over the T.B. Horsemen's Eyes. We see all to clear and you should as well. The petition he tried to put forward was bull and now trying to amend the Racing Act yet 95% of the people that patronize the Harness tracks on Sat. & Sun. afternoons are betting on the Thoroughbred Inter-State Simulcasting Signals. 70% in the evenings while live racing is actually going on at their tracks are still betting on the T.B. Signals. Fact Adkins wants to amend the 1995 Racing Act. That Act States that their must be a live meet running of that breed to be eligible to receive inter-state simulcasting signals of that breed. Let us see how long the Harness tracks would stay open without the ability to have those Thoroughbred Signals. The moment those signals would disappear their doors would close for good. Let us the Thoroughbred Horsemen/Women Introduce that. They want the Thoroughbreds dead in the State, then let it be ALL the Thoroughbreds coming in from the other States as well. Let's see if they can survive without the Thoroughbred Horse Racing Breed Period.

OHIO Preparing To Install VLTs At Their Racetracks, Michigan On The Other Hand Is Preparing Funeral Arrangements For Our Race Tracks Here.

Detroit News Columnist Nolan Finley Weighs in on how Unfair Michigan is to Horse Racing.

Blog Posted Aug. 26th @8:40pm

Gary Tinkle on the HBPA site brought up this point last year on how Governor Granholm and Michigan can give The Movie Industry a 42% tax break from Graholm to exist here. Which cost Mi. $120 Million in Revenue. But Horse Racing got 0% Tax break, which brings in over $400 Million.      

And I put it in Several Blogs.         October 29, 2009           

MICHIGAN IS TOO BROKE TO FUND HORSE RACING.       

 July 19, 2010…           

Indiana Downs Sets Handle Record. ANYBODY LISTENING MICHIGAN?        

But now The Detroit News’s Nolan Finely has taken notice as well.
        
Last Updated: August 26. 2010 1:00AM       

Michigan woos films, but lets horse racing tracks wither  

From The Detroit News:
http://www.detnews.com/article/20100826/OPINION03/8260339/1467/OPINION01/Michigan-woos-films–but-lets-horse-racing-tracks-wither#ixzz0xlgUtZmg
   

     

 

 

 

HEY GOVERNOR JENNIFER GRANHOLM $ 5,404,820.00 GENERATED FROM AN INDUSTRY YOU WANT TO KILL OFF, HORSE RACING.

Simulcast revenue produced from 3.5 tax for current fiscal year ending September 30, 2010. Current bal. Oct. 1, 2009 to August 15, 2010.

 $5,404,820.00

Michigan Millions of Dollars Throw Away. HORSE RACING.

From the HBPA Website   

STATE REVENUE FROM THE 3.5% SIMULCAST TAX CURRENT FISCAL YEAR: OCTOBER 1, 2009-JUNE 6,2010   

 $4,682,968   

This is what Michigan wants to throw away. MUCH NEEDED REVENUE. Well if Michigan doesn’t want it and since Horse Racing generates it. Why are the Thoroughbred Horsemen having to BUY BACK DATES WITH OUR PURSES?   

DETROIT’S THOROUGHBRED RACING HISTORY

1948 at Detroit Fairgrounds.

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ZOOM IN

Too much heritage to let go of in the State of Michigan. Don’t you agree?

http://kdl.kyvl.org/cgi/t/text/pageviewer-idx?c=drf1970s;cc=drf1970s;rgn=full%20text;idno=drf1978050404;didno=drf1978050404;view=pdf;seq=48_1;node=drf1978050404%3A48.1

http://kdl.kyvl.org/cgi/t/text/pageviewer-idx?c=drf1970s;cc=drf1970s;rgn=full%20text;idno=drf1977051402;didno=drf1977051402;view=pdf;seq=27_1;node=drf1977051402%3A27.1

http://kdl.kyvl.org/cgi/t/text/pageviewer-idx?c=drf1980s;cc=drf1980s;rgn=full%20text;idno=drf1982050602;didno=drf1982050602;view=pdf;seq=26_1;node=drf1982050602%3A26.1

http://kdl.kyvl.org/cgi/t/text/pageviewer-idx?c=drf1980s;cc=drf1980s;rgn=full%20text;idno=drf1980050502;didno=drf1980050502;view=pdf;seq=15_1;node=drf1980050502%3A15.1

The Start of a Race at The Detroit Fairgrounds, Dated July 13, 1948. ( Original Press Photo )

To be continued……

2010 PINNACLE RACE COURSE DATES APPROVED.

Signed, Sealed and Delivered!

MICHIGAN SENATE: A BIG THANK YOU

Michigan Horse Racing lives to see another day.

Senate Passes Bill HB-4311, November 5, 2009

Roll Call # 536
Yeas 91 Nays 12

Governor Granholm is expected to sign the Bill, Friday November 6, 2009 at 11:00 am.

MICHIGAN SENATE, PLEASE WAKE UP!

ALL SIMULCASTING AND LIVE RACING WILL HALT FRIDAY NOVEMBER 6, BREEDERS CUP WEEKEND.

STATE REVENUE FROM THE 3.5% SIMULCAST TAX FROM JAN.1 THROUGH 11/1/2009 $5,341,057.00

CONTACT SENATORS NOW!!!

Michigan House passes bill to fund Horse Racing

FINALLY SOME SANITY IN MICHIGAN.

http://www.wlns.com/Global/story.asp?S=11409646

http://www.wzzm13.com/news/news_story.aspx?storyid=115222

http://www.dailymail.com/ap/ApTopStories/200910290984

MICHIGAN IS TOO BROKE TO FUND HORSE RACING!

And all must be SHUT DOWN on November 5, 2009. Both Live & Simulcasting.

But at the same time. The Little River Band of Ottawa Indians may get FEDERALLY FUNDED FOR ROADWORK near a new Casino they plan to put up at the Old Great Lakes Downs site.

All Mi. Horse Tracks about to be SHUT DOWN.

And yet not one word on our LOCAL MEDIA NEWS STATIONS.

WXYZ, WDIV, WJBK, DETROIT NEWS, OR DETROIT FREE PRESS.

But the Free Press did do an article on The Hannahville Indian Community, who wants to put up a casino in Romulus.

On November 5th because of the Veto of funding to the ORC which in reality was already dissolved by Governor Granholm. Because of lack of money for racing officials. ALL 5 MICHIGAN HORSE TRACKS WILL HAVE TO CEASE OPERATION. That means ALL Simulcasting & Live Racing.

And yet the only Media coverage I’ve seen is on links below. Out of Mid/Mi.

Unanimously Approved

Board approves ‘racino’ ballot petition.

The four-member Board of State Canvassers, a state elections panel, approved unanimously the wording for a constitutional amendment submitted by Racing to Save Michigan.

And now all the Casino’s hair has been raised.

http://www.detnews.com/article/20091014/POLITICS02/910140421/1409/METRO

So why the worry? Well I’ll tell you WHY.

$20k better spent

On Oct. 8, 2009 Governor Granholm dissolved The Office of Racing Commissioner, and put us under the Michigan Gaming Control Board. Horse racing was always under Agriculture. It was mentioned in several Detroit newspaper articles that state’s House Appropriations Committee wanted to vote on conducting a study if other forms of gaming at all Mi. horse tracks would bring more money into the state. The price tag of this study? $20k.

Are they nuts?