Kentucky Pride, Kentucky values. Charlie Owen in the Senate. A black and white photo of Baesler as phrases flash on screen, followed by the Herald-Leader's masthead. The picture of Baesler changes to a color shot, with more phrases and newspaper clippings. Cuts to shot of Owen working in a darkened office at a desk.
Final shot is of Owen talking with someone in what looks like a living room.
The property is still vacant. The state paid about 52 percent more for the land than Southcreek had paid in acquiring the property from 1987-89. But the city's finances soured, and in 1992, Baesler put the project on hold. The state had included a clause in the bond issue that financed the sale, saying that Lexington would have to repay the money if the center didn't get built. In 1995, Gov. Brereton Jones, whom Baesler had challenged in the 1991 election, went forward on that pledge and sued the city to recover the money.