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Maryland: Marylanders United To Stop Slots

Fri, 10/31/2008 - 19:28

Question 2 battle gets personal

By Danny Reiter, PolitickerMD.com Reporter

Pro-slots group For Maryland For Our Future is attacking Comptroller Peter Franchot's (D-Takoma Park) position on slots in a new web ad, criticizing his past support for legalized slot machines.

"Question 2, this year's slots proposal, provides $660 million dollars to fund education," a narrator says in the ad. "In contrast, the Franchot slots bill gave less money to education than Question 2."

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Wed, 10/29/2008 - 14:23

Empowering Believers Church Bishop opposes slots

By Danny Reiter, PolitickerMD.com Reporter

Bishop Larry Lee Thomas of the Empowering Believers Church in Glen Burnie said on Wednesday he is against passing November's slots referendum.

"This time of year seems to bring about more tricks than treats, and we want to say no to the tricks of Question 2," Thomas said in a statement released by Marylanders United to Stop Slots.

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Mon, 10/27/2008 - 11:49

Pro-slots group continues fundraising momentum

By Danny Reiter, PolitickerMD.com Reporter

The pro-slots movement continued gaining money momentum last week after its leading advocacy organization outraised its rival anti-slots ballot issue committee by a substantial margin.

Voters will decide in November if the state constitution should be amended to allow up to 15,000 slot machine installations at five different locations across the state.

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Fri, 10/24/2008 - 12:13

MoCo Federation of Teachers: 'Education should be funded on its own'

By Danny Reiter, PolitickerMD.com Reporter

Using slots as a source for education funding is bad for the long-term needs of education, according to the Montgomery County Federation of Teachers, AFT, Local 1670.
 
"Education should be funded on its own, without a funding source like slot machines," Joseph Monte, MCFT's president, said in a statement in reference to November's slots referendum.
 

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Wed, 10/22/2008 - 11:27

Pro-slots group: Show Maryland the money

By Danny Reiter, PolitickerMD.com Reporter

Passing November's slots referendum would recapture millions of dollars Marylanders are sending out of state, according to a new ad from pro-slots group For Maryland For Our Future.

"Right now, we lose $400 million dollars a year from Marylanders who play slots out of state. Those are Maryland dollars paying to improve education in West Virginia and lower taxes in Pennsylvania," says a narrator in the ad. "But we can bring those dollars home by passing slots here in Maryland."

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Tue, 10/21/2008 - 15:45

Star-Democrat: 'Vote no to Question 2'

By Danny Reiter, PolitickerMD.com Reporter

The Star-Democrat is encouraging its readers to vote against November's controversial slots referendum.

Voters will decide in November if the state constitution should be amended to allow up to 15,000 slot machines at five different locations across the state.

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Mon, 10/20/2008 - 10:05

Anti-slots group bashes Sun's endorsement of Question 2

By Danny Reiter, PolitickerMD.com Reporter

Anti-slots group Marylanders United to Stop Slots is lambasting The Baltimore Sun for its endorsement of November's controversial slots referendum.

"It is frankly a slap in the face to the voters of Maryland and an abdication of its editorial integrity," Scott Arceneaux, senior advisor of Marylanders United to Stop Slots, said in a statement. 

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Sat, 10/18/2008 - 09:57

Battle over slots: Taxes vs. Addiction

By Danny Reiter, PolitickerMD.com Reporter

Pro-slots group For Maryland For Our Future added three names to its list of endorsees on Friday. They argue that without slots Marylanders will see tax hikes, more budget cuts and a depletion of state funds.

The Maryland Standardbred Breeders Association, the Calvert County Chamber of Commerce and the Baltimore Washington Corridor Chamber of Commerce threw their support behind November's slots referendum, which would allow 15,000 slot machine installations at five different locations across the state.

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Fri, 10/17/2008 - 11:30

This week's PolitickerMD.com Winners & Losers

By Wally Edge

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Wed, 10/15/2008 - 11:23

Sun: Anti-slots group alters first radio ad

By Danny Reiter, PolitickerMD.com Reporter

Anti-slots group Marylanders United to Stop Slots will be altering its first radio ad launched on Tuesday, according to The Baltimore Sun.

The ad mistakenly identified a group called the Baltimore United in Leadership Development as anti-slots.

"That's why the NACCP, the League of Women Voters, the I.M.A. and BUILD all oppose slots," says a man in the ad.

There have been 35 comments posted in response to this story.