Beshear touts expanding gambling to fund pensions
LOUISVILLE — Promoting an issue his father unsuccessfully championed as governor, Democrat Andy Beshear said Thursday he wants to expand gambling in Kentucky and use the proceeds to help fund the state’s struggling public pension systems.
Beshear, one of four Democrats seeking their party’s nomination for governor, was asked at a campaign event how he would fix the state’s pension woes. His reply to the Louisville audience — look for new forms of revenue “that don’t raise anybody’s taxes.”
“I’m for expanded gaming, and it’s time we get it done,” he said, adding he supports allowing casino gambling and sports betting.
Two of his rivals for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination later expressed doubts about the plan.
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