SHE WON'T GO!
FRANKFORT — A state tourism board gave preliminary approval on Monday for a controversial religious theme park to apply for up to $37 million in state tax incentives.*****
The six-member board voted unanimously to approve the incentives for the Kentucky Speedway and to give preliminary approval of the Ark Encounter park in Grant County.
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The Kentucky Tourism, Arts and Heritage Cabinet will employ a third-party consultant to do an independent analysis of financial projections for the park and to see if the park would qualify for a full 25 percent rebate of its costs.
If the consultant finds that the company’s projections are incorrect, the board could decide against granting the full 25 percent return on the $150 million investment over 10 years. It could also decide not to grant the incentive at all.
It will likely take about four months to complete the independent analysis, tourism officials said Monday.
What’s shocking here is that Beth Musgrave gives absolutely zero mention of Linda Blackford’s bombshell story from Friday that showed that Beshear’s people have never even seen the “feasibility study” that was written by Ken Ham’s fundie business partner. Or that this park will tell kids that science shows that a 600 year old man herded T-Rexes and fire-breathing dragons onto the giant boat 4,000 years ago.
I guess those details are no longer important. And I guess it’s not really shocking either, is it?
Will they ask to see the “10,000 page” study that shows “200 million people” want to see the big dineysore boat that will rival King’s Island?
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