Royce W. Adams At The Williamstown Debate

Before the debates, Mr. Adams talked about how gas prices were going to go up because of the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.  18 years ago when Mr. Adams took office, gas was a dollar.  One dollar.  Per gallon.  Now gas is pushing on $3 per gallon, and we are told that prices are going to keep going up.  So that's great for Mr. Adams.  He's already getting 300% of the profits that he was getting in 1992, and now he's going to get more.

During the debate, Mr. Adams said that the budget wasn't passed because the Governor had sent over a budget that had $17 million of revenue from gaming, and it's a total joke to legalize gambling in Frankfort, so therefore, the House of Representatives had to come up with a new budget from scratch.  The budget bill that Mr. Adams and the Democratic House passed had “unusual ways of raising revenue” according to the current 61st District State Representative.  He also blamed the “jobs” portion of the budget that the Republican Senate opposed, so therefore the budget failed.

So the budget wasn't passed, but Mr. Adams pointed out that Frankfort did pass two bills: a text messaging law that's going to be ineffective, and a compromised version of Amanda's Bill to help out with victims of domestic violence.

Mr. Adams also pointed out that the majority of the 61st district wanted expanded gaming (aka gaming).  So if the People want gambling to be legalized, then the People should get it.  That's how democracy works.

One good thing Mr. Adams pointed out was that he got 8 million dollars for the farmers.  Finally, Mr. Adams does something right.  That's exactly what we need to see happen.  The 61st District needs to get as much tax revenue from Frankfort and Washington as we can possibly get, because if our tax dollars don't start coming back home, then we need to quit paying them.