Will T. Scott will center his Gubernatorial campaign on a Losing Proposition: Expanded Gambling

Is Will T. trying to copy what Wallace Wilkinson did with the Lottery?

Politics makes very strange bed fellows indeed.  Today’s candidacy of our friend Will T. Scott was greeted with some interest.  We supported him for Congress, Attorney General and most recently for Kentucky Supreme Court Justice.  The later office he recently resigned in order to seek the Office of Governor of this great Commonwealth.

Sadly enough, Scott has embraced the old, worn and politically dead expanded gambling gimmick as an attempt to generate some badly needed campaign cash.  With Hal Heiner raising 157K in two months of fundraising (keeping his word to Grassroots GOP and its House candidates not to have fundraisers until after the November election while Comer went back on his proclamation not to do so) on top of 4 million he added personally, Will T. no doubt is hoping this might get him a buy in the Louisville media market.

Evangelical Conservative Christians will reject this campaign built around a scourge on society and a destroyer of families which is gambling.  Its target is the poorest Kentuckians, the down trodden, the most susceptible.  We can expect to hear loud cries from Protestant pulpits railing against gambling this Spring.

Wallace Wilkinson benefited from the wildfire created by hopes of Lottery funded education.  The hopes of addressing unfunded pension obligations won’t be a big enough temptation for Kentucky Republicans.

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