Jump to full article: Charleston (WV) Daily Mail, 2009-08-07
Author: Jake Stump Daily Mail Capitol Reporter
Intro: The head of the West Virginia Alcohol Beverage Control Administration doesn't want his agency wedged into the ongoing battle between Tri-State Racetrack and the Kanawha County health board.
Anita Ray, county health director, recently sent a letter to the alcohol control agency stating she would contact the agency if the racetrack defied the countywide smoking ban, an insinuation that the liquor agency should revoke Tri-State's liquor license.
In Tri-State's defense, Dan Adkins, vice president of Hartman & Tyner Inc., which owns the racetrack, shot off a letter to the liquor agency this week contending that the health board withheld several important facts in its letter.
Alcohol Beverage Control Commissioner Dallas Staples said the smoking ban issue isn't on his agency's radar.
"I don't want the agency to be used as a threatening tool," Staples said. "We're going to operate as we normally do.
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