With pro-slots govs.-elect in PA and MD, DE casinos are wary [my title]

Wilmington (DE) Snooze Journal ^ | 11/8/02 | Sean O'Sullivan

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Delaware officials said they would propose legislation next year to help the state's three racetrack slots operators hold on to out-of-state gamblers, now that Maryland and Pennsylvania have elected governors who support allowing slots at tracks in their states.

Gov. Ruth Ann Minner, state legislators and local slots operators said they expect laws to be passed next year in Maryland and Pennsylvania allowing racetrack operators to start slot machine gambling at eight tracks, providing competition for casinos at Delaware Park, Dover Downs and Harrington Raceway.

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Not a word from or about Christian conservatives on this issue made this article.

Somewhere James Dobson is praying...

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P.S. I'll confess that I occasionally stop in one DE casino or another and plop in $1 or at the most $2. I don't play the ponies - that's even less of a sure thing. But it's lotteries, which I avoid entirely, that most concern me because I fear for the poor who treat it as another get rich quick scheme.

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"They are options I think we have to pursue," said Sen. George H. Bunting Jr., who said he never has been a big supporter of gambling. "I'm sure as heck going to do that before I sign anything that would increase taxes in Delaware."

Sen. Bunting speaks out of both sides of his mouth - but I keep forgetting - Bunting doesn't consider smokers to be anything butt a nuisance cash cow and in his mind raising cigarette taxes is not really raising a tax at all.