Mancini's Commentaries

Keep your promises

I have to hang my hat with Gov. Joe Manchin on this one. He wants the Tri-State Racetrack & Gaming Center to make a public explanation about why it has yet to offer table games. Tri-State runs the dog track in Nitro where Kanawha County voters, after a bitter election last year between the foes of gambling and the supporters of the games, approved table games. The company in the campaign said it would build a $250 million expansion and create 1,000 jobs. Sounds like the governor has struck a nerve. Dan Adkins, vice president of Hartman & Tyner, the parent company of the race track, said the transformation has begun. Adkins said there was a $3 million surveillance system overhaul, two poker areas constructed and the simulcasting room was relocated. ``If anyone would get off their duffs and go take a look, they'd see things were moving forward,' he told the Associated Press. I don't have a problem with table games, but these companies must keep the campaign promises they make.