One of the sources he tapped was VLT revenue to purses. Joe Manchin moved to fix the state’s ailing workers’ comp system. It comes out every year for 15 years until it’s paid in full.” “We worked hard to get table games passed in the legislature because we knew we’d be in financial trouble last year when they took the workers’ compensation money. “If we don’t keep (our current customers), we’re SOL,” said Chuck Bailey, president of the Mountaineer Horsemen’s Benevolent and Protective Association. But the amount that will go to purses (from table games) is in the millions, and that doesn’t take into account new slots play.” “If it hadn’t passed, we may have seen a decrease in purses. “We had to preserve what we have,” Arneault said. The more important issue, they said, was protecting business at the track given the advent of slot machines at tracks in neighboring Pennsylvania. Horsemen and Mountaineer officials couldn’t project how much revenue table games may produce for purses in a year. Purses will get 2.5% of table games revenue and breed development 2% purses get 14% from VLT revenue and breed development 1.5%. The benefits to horsemen won’t be as apparent as they were when VLTs were legalized at Mountaineer. “Our employees are the people who really got this passed.” “All politics is local,” said Cronin, who once represented Hancock County in the state legislature.
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