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Ron Sparks to Announce Plans for Alabama

July 1st, 2009

Alabama’s Agricultural Commissioner Ron Sparks, the Democrat from Fort Payne who wants to be governor, will announce major plans in a press conference Thursday to guarantee advanced education for every child, lower taxes yet higher funding for education and Medicaid, plus a disaster relief fund for agriculture.


The Sparks plan, according to a press release sent out by his campaign today, would eliminate illegal gambling in Alabama and outlaw gaming in any county where it is rejected by the voters.

The press conference will be 11 a.m. Thursday at the Sparks Campaign Headquarters in Montgomery, 4240 Carmichael Road.

For more information, hit his Web site: Sparks2010.com.

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  1. admin Says:
    July 1st, 2009 at 4:38 pm

    Ideas, anyone?

    : )

  2. Yana Davis Says:
    July 2nd, 2009 at 10:09 am

    Ron sounds pretty much like a boilerplate populist from days of yore – more stuff from the state government, yet lower taxes. I’m not sure what the press release means vis-a-vis gambling. Does he want to legalize, regulate and tax it for the extra revenue needed to expand education and social programs?

    If so, it should be kept in mind the record on efficacy of gambling as a revenue source is spotty. Legal gambling states that draw a lot of tourists (Nevada, Mississippi, New Jersey) do pretty well, with proceeds going to education, typically. Others do not, for a variety of reasons, including not have a lot of tourists coming to lose their money in the slots or on the roulette table.

    Tip O’Neill famously said that politics is the art of the possible – a statement that could come only from a career politician. Politics is actually the art of deluding self and others, the chief delusion being that natural law can somehow be changed by human law.

    That single delusion is the basis for all the bad stuff that governments do. As long as it remains unquestioned and unchallenged, we will have a “continuing crisis” that politicians continue to promise to solve, all the while doing things that guarantee the crisis never ends. Call it job security for the political-power elite.

  3. Glynn Wilson Says:
    July 2nd, 2009 at 11:06 am

    Waiting on the AP story to find out…