Governor Beasley serves as the Chairman of the Board.
Governor Beasley signed the bill on June 26 "that ended years of bitter disputes."
It is expected to be damaging to Governor Beasley politically, but not fatal.
Governor Beasley and others say the industry is too far gone to restructure.
After hard grappling with the issue, Governor Beasley called a news conference televised statewide.
Governor Beasley, in striking the colors "because we lost," offers a clean gesture, brave and, not incidentally, career-making.
They tell me that, for Governor Beasley, symbolic shifts with prevailing winds are nothing new.
Whatever Governor Beasley's motives, his battle-flag conversion offers our region a belated crack at doing something right.
Things had been looking up for Governor Beasley in the final days before the vote.
By campaign's end, Governor Beasley had agreed to support a voter initiative on the lottery.