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06-13-2007, 07:05 AM
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It's got everything to do with Bible thumping and "family values".
I live in MD. Trust me, the knee-jerk reaction is that slots means gambling makes for sinners in the hands of an angry god. This state is run by soccer moms and dads. Period. They are so freaked out by the notion of slots/gambling that they're willing to forego roughly 50% of the revenue slated for education. Here's the latest accounting by the Baltimore Sun: Joined by their highest-ranking advocate, Comptroller Peter Franchot, Stop Slots Maryland advocates gathered at an Annapolis-area church yesterday to resume their push to block gambling. Leaders said they were bankrupt and that supporters had scattered, but that they would turn to religious groups across the state, and even Republican lawmakers, for help. 
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06-13-2007, 07:55 AM
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They would turn to religious groups, sure, but for the last five years, religious groups have nothing to do with why there aren't slots in Maryland. Former Governor Ehrlich - a Republican - was the world's biggest proponent of slots, and the state legislature refused to go along with any plan that came from the governor.
Religious groups may be a factor now, but they certainly weren't a factor at any point in the last five years.
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06-13-2007, 03:25 PM
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I would like to see racing on national tv.
I can't see how a sport "needs" slots and they aren't using the mass media. It's ass backwards to me, but I am probably just wrong and ill informed. I think the NBA or NFL would fail if they had racing's use of mass media. I think mass media is how they prospered.
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06-13-2007, 04:00 PM
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NYRA, Churchill, Keeneland, SoCal, Oaklawn.
Best race meets which have one other thing in common... no slots. The tracks with artificial slot purses really do nothing other than support bad horses and their owners, trainers, etc.... All the BS about Slots = Higher Purses = Better Horses = Increased Handle is trash. Hell, Gulfstream projected revenue of $600 a day per machine. They got $250. Can't say I feel sorry for them. Anybody who puts a dime into one of those things is a damn fool.
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06-15-2007, 07:22 AM
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Now if you said that 99.9% of the people who play slots are playing a losing game, I'd agree whole-heartedly. But I could say the same thing about betting horses. --Dunbar
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06-13-2007, 09:44 PM
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We had this same type of debate here in Detroit about 10 years ago. The anti-gambling movement was able to successfully head off casino gambling for many years using the "family values morality" argument. Then a funny thing happened: the government of Ontario opened a casino right across the river from Detroit. People realized that the casino gambling couldn't be stopped and really it was only a question of where the money was going to be spent-- over there (Canada) or over here (Detroit). When people realized it was probably better to keep the money here instead of flowing over to Canada, casino gambling was approved in spite of the anti-gambling crowd.
I'm surprised that legislators in Maryland would rather watch those slot dollars go to Pennsylvania and Delaware instead of legalizing it in the Old Line State and collecting tax revenue from it. Of course, it wouldn't be the first time politicians have acted illogically . . . 
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06-13-2007, 09:50 PM
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Just a follow-up to my last post:
Michigan recently had a proposal on the ballot to legalize racinos. Guess who fought it? The casino industry actually teamed up with the remnants of the anti-gambling crowd to kill the proposal. Talk about politics making "strange bedfellows" . . . Needless to say, the casinos with all their cash were able to defeat racino movement. Not so coincidentally, this will be the last racing season at Great Lakes Downs.
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06-14-2007, 05:54 AM
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the people from the baltimore area and the eastern shore all drive to delaware on a regular basis. people in central and western Md go to charles town.
the last time we were on the eastern shore of Md, we were at breakfast and two buses pulled in. a group from the eastern shore of virginia on the way to delaware, just stop in maryland for a bit to eat.
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