On advice of counsel I plead the 5th, babe.

[Cannon Shell]

Originally Posted by GBBob

I went to Bobby Rushs' web site and you can only e-mail him if you live in his district so I called his Washington office. They had me leave a voicemail for Christian Fjeld who is the lead for the Dem side in this committe. He actually called me back within 30 minutes and spoke to me for almost 30 minutes. He is a big horse race fan and very knowledgeable about the sport, which did surprise me. He reviewed all the people on the list and reviewed in detail the agenda. Some of the witnesses include Jess Jackson, Randy Moss, Richard Shapiro, Jack Van Berg, Allan Marcell, Arthur Hancock and quite a few from the vet/medical side...Alex Waldrop and Ali Concord were the only names I could get.

A big part of their focus he said was going to be on the health and well fair of low level claimers at smaller tracks, what is their care like, should they be running and what happens to them after they don't run anymore. He specifically brought up Ask The Lord as an example of a horse that will be reviewed.

He welcomes e-mails and opinions at Christian.Fjeld@mail.house.gov

Steve...I think you should try and get him on the show..well spoken, knowledgeable and not a witch hunt, at least that I could tell

I may have asked him if they were going to focus on the smaller tracks than why not actually invite someone who may know what the hell is going on there instead of the people named? I may have also asked why did they seemingly only invite people who have come out in public on one side of the issue?

[ArlJim78]

committee officer to Dutrow
"raise your right hand and repeat after me. I..state your name."

Dutrow "I...state your name"

[GBBob]

Originally Posted by Cannon Shell

I may have asked him if they were going to focus on the smaller tracks than why not actually invite someone who may know what the hell is going on there instead of the people named? I may have also asked why did they seemingly only invite people who have come out in public on one side of the issue?

Someone more knowledgeable than me should ask him those questions then. I wanted to get contact information up in case anyone wanted to pursue this with them. I don't disagree to earlier posts that this isn't worthy of a congressional hearing, but it is happening so if someone wants to be heard, there is a way.

[Cannon Shell]

Originally Posted by GBBob

Someone more knowledgeable than me should ask him those questions then. I wanted to get contact information up in case anyone wanted to pursue this with them. I don't disagree to earlier posts that this isn't worthy of a congressional hearing, but it is happening so if someone wants to be heard, there is a way.

I'm calling.....I may need bail money....

[GBBob]

Originally Posted by Cannon Shell

I'm calling.....I may need bail money....

I'm sure your phones are already tapped

[SentToStud]

Originally Posted by Cannon Shell

I may have asked him if they were going to focus on the smaller tracks than why not actually invite someone who may know what the hell is going on there instead of the people named? I may have also asked why did they seemingly only invite people who have come out in public on one side of the issue?

I would love to hear someone explain the reasons this place exists:

Sunday, 6/8
Presque Isle Downs
Total Purses: $170,000
Total Handle: $166,000 ($29,000 on track)
Total Attendence: 913

They ran 3 open ALW races. Two of the races drew 4 horse fields and had win pools of $4,000-$5,000.

The ony thing these slot tracks do is create welfare for horsepeople. And rob real racetracks of decent horses to run in competitive full field races.

Pretty hard to argue against the idea that there are too many race tracks running too many bad races for too many bad horses.

[The Indomitable DrugS]

The ADW situation has hurt PID's handle - so the stats are a little misleading because of that - but I pretty much agree with you.