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PRESS RELEASE: Help Not Harm
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEAugust 31, 2021 Help Not Harm: A National Child Safety CampaignThe Family Foundation joins new initiative to protect children from dangerous transgender interventions Lexington, KY – Today, Family Policy Alliance and the alliance of state-based...
PRESS RELEASE: Help Not Harm
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEAugust 31, 2021 Help Not Harm: A National Child Safety CampaignThe Family Foundation joins new initiative to protect children from dangerous transgender interventions Lexington, KY – Today, Family Policy Alliance and the alliance of state-based...
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NDAA Amendment Shows Woke DC Now Cancelling Rosie the Riveter
As the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) continues to make its way through the Senate, Family Policy Alliance and the alliance of state-based family policy councils raise the alarm that now Woke D.C. is trying to cancel Rosie the Riveter. Earlier this week,...
The Family Foundation Joins Legal Brief Asking Supreme Court to Overturn Roe v. Wade
The Family Foundation joined with the Constitutional Government Defense Fund (“CGDF”) and 21 other state family policy organizations in filing an amicus curiae brief asking the United States Supreme Court to overrule Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey. In...
The Family Foundation moves for transfer to Kentucky Supreme Court
LEXINGTON, KY — On Thursday, April 22, 2021, The Family Foundation once again moved to transfer the 10-year old slot-gaming case to the Kentucky Supreme Court. HISTORY: On Sept. 24, 2020, the Supreme Court unanimously reversed the Franklin Circuit Court and found...
SB 120 – The Slots Bill – was an unconstitutional millionaire’s stimulus bill
This piece is respectfully submitted by Martin Cothran Senior Policy Analyst of The Family Foundation.The so-called "historical horse racing" slots bill was passed by the Kentucky General Assembly. It was marketed as a bill that would protect the horse industry. In...
“We won the argument, but lost the fight”
LEXINGTON, KY — "We won the argument, but lost the fight," said Martin Cothran, spokesman for The Family Foundation after SB 120, the slots bill, passed the Kentucky House in a close vote. “Logic and common sense won the legal fight in Court, but money and political...
“It’s a millionaire’s stimulus bill,” says family group of slots bill
LEXINGTON, KY — “Mr. Chairman, Churchill Downs, whose CEO makes over $10 million a year, does not need a stimulus check," said Martin Cothran, spokesman for The Family Foundation right before the House Licensing and Occupations Committee voted in favor of slots...
News Release: Close Senate Vote on Slots Bill Could Signal Weakness in the House
LEXINGTON, KY--"The slots bill is now limping toward the House," said the Family Foundation after the slots bill gained what it called "a surprisingly close victory" on Senate Bill 120. "The fact that a bill co-sponsored by the Senate President didn't have a more...
“It gets harder from here on out,” says group of slots bill
LEXINGTON, KY — The Family Foundation said that today's passage of the so-called "historical horse racing" slot machine bill (SB 120) in Senate Licensing and Occupations was expected. "We knew the bill was coming out of the committee. We just wanted to lay out our...
A legal “rabbit hole”?
LEXINGTON, KY — "This case gets more surreal by the hour," said a spokesman for The Family Foundation after the Franklin Circuit Court declined to enter judgment this morning as directed by the Kentucky Supreme Court on its historical horse racing decision. On Sept....
NDAA Amendment Shows Woke DC Now Cancelling Rosie the Riveter
As the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) continues to make its way through the Senate, Family Policy Alliance and the alliance of state-based family policy councils raise the alarm that now Woke D.C. is trying to cancel Rosie the Riveter. Earlier this week,...
The Family Foundation Joins Legal Brief Asking Supreme Court to Overturn Roe v. Wade
The Family Foundation joined with the Constitutional Government Defense Fund (“CGDF”) and 21 other state family policy organizations in filing an amicus curiae brief asking the United States Supreme Court to overrule Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey. In...
The Family Foundation moves for transfer to Kentucky Supreme Court
LEXINGTON, KY — On Thursday, April 22, 2021, The Family Foundation once again moved to transfer the 10-year old slot-gaming case to the Kentucky Supreme Court. HISTORY: On Sept. 24, 2020, the Supreme Court unanimously reversed the Franklin Circuit Court and found...
SB 120 – The Slots Bill – was an unconstitutional millionaire’s stimulus bill
This piece is respectfully submitted by Martin Cothran Senior Policy Analyst of The Family Foundation.The so-called "historical horse racing" slots bill was passed by the Kentucky General Assembly. It was marketed as a bill that would protect the horse industry. In...
“We won the argument, but lost the fight”
LEXINGTON, KY — "We won the argument, but lost the fight," said Martin Cothran, spokesman for The Family Foundation after SB 120, the slots bill, passed the Kentucky House in a close vote. “Logic and common sense won the legal fight in Court, but money and political...
“It’s a millionaire’s stimulus bill,” says family group of slots bill
LEXINGTON, KY — “Mr. Chairman, Churchill Downs, whose CEO makes over $10 million a year, does not need a stimulus check," said Martin Cothran, spokesman for The Family Foundation right before the House Licensing and Occupations Committee voted in favor of slots...
News Release: Close Senate Vote on Slots Bill Could Signal Weakness in the House
LEXINGTON, KY--"The slots bill is now limping toward the House," said the Family Foundation after the slots bill gained what it called "a surprisingly close victory" on Senate Bill 120. "The fact that a bill co-sponsored by the Senate President didn't have a more...
“It gets harder from here on out,” says group of slots bill
LEXINGTON, KY — The Family Foundation said that today's passage of the so-called "historical horse racing" slot machine bill (SB 120) in Senate Licensing and Occupations was expected. "We knew the bill was coming out of the committee. We just wanted to lay out our...
A legal “rabbit hole”?
LEXINGTON, KY — "This case gets more surreal by the hour," said a spokesman for The Family Foundation after the Franklin Circuit Court declined to enter judgment this morning as directed by the Kentucky Supreme Court on its historical horse racing decision. On Sept....