In testimony a couple of weeks ago, Speaker of the House Greg Stumbo (D-Prestonsburg) tried to enroll the Southern Baptists in his effort to bring electronic slot machines to Kentucky, saying he had spoken to many Southern Baptists, and they were fine with his bill.

Bad idea.

As it turns out, Kentucky’s Southern Baptists are very excited about expanded gambling, but not the way Stumbo exactly intended.  Their excitment, it seems, was the product, not of their enthusiasm for slots, but of someone implying that they might be in favor of them.

A group of 26 Baptist churches in eastern Kentucky is hoppin’ mad that anyone might think they are anything other than opposed to the idea.

Former con is now pro on HB 158.

The Herald-Leader’s Larry Dale Keeling pronounces lat rites on Speaker of the House Greg Stumbo’s slots bill after BOBTROT’s Larry Bronger comes out publicly for the bill.  Bronger, who did time for accepting bribes discovered during the BOPTROT investigation, apparently has a little left over to support House Bill 158, which would put electronic slot machines at horse tracks.