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Updated: 4:32 AM Aug 22, 2007
Group to Ask for Recount
The West Virginia Council of Churches announced that it is going to ask for a recount in the Kanawha County table games election.
Posted: 5:59 PM Aug 21, 2007
Reporter: Mike Waterhouse
Email Address: mike.waterhouse@wsaz.com
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The West Virginia Council of Churches announced that it is going to ask for a recount in the Kanawha County table games election.

Reverend Dennis Sparks made the announcement just before 6pm Tuesday.

The deadline to ask for a recount was 7pm Tuesday.

The issue, whether or not to allow table games in Kanawha County, passed with a 343 vote margin after the August 11th election.

The other group against the issue says it won't challenge the results. West Virginia Family Foundation president, Kevin McCoy, says he doesn't believe a recount will change the results.

"We believe for financial resources and also to how it was done here Friday, there is no need for a recount," said McCoy.

Kanawha County Commissioner Kent Carper has said all along a recount would not change the outcome of the election -- especially when last week's canvass caused the "yes" side's lead to jump by more than three hundred votes.

"We need to concentrate on the one thousand new permanent jobs," said Carper. "We need to concentrate on the 65 million dollars of construction money that will be here and how this will develop this part of the county."

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Posted by: sonny on Aug 29, 2007 at 04:48 PM

i think its sad that people would rather hold on to fairy tales and old books rather than look to the future and see what this will do for the whole area.there is a new generation comming up who understands if yu wants things done and want to help people you have to do it and not sit around asking some faceless entity to fix everything for you.
Posted by: Dr. Evil on Aug 23, 2007 at 11:24 PM

stevet: You mention the Tamarack? hahaha It can't support itself now. Are you suggesting we subsidize Tristate like we do the Tamarack too? Please show me where 65% of the money at Tristate is from out of the area - without using their propaganda. I will ask again, one more time, stevet. If you have any answers, please post. Why were other casinos and other forms of amusement not brought on board to create this "destination resort"? Why is the Daily Mail now reporting that Tristate is going back to the drawing board for the hotel, and the county is "concerned" that the infrastructure can support it? This state's system of back room deals is known to everyone except the people who live here. Please read the article in the Daily Mail before you spew your nonsense.
Posted by: Greg on Aug 23, 2007 at 05:02 PM

All my life I have heard christain people use the phrase "Gods will" this "God will" that. Well maybe these christain folks should practice what they preach and use their TAX FREE money on something useful. Maybe it was Gods will that the vote passed.
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