Rendell Wants Money for Philly Slot Machines

Some say that Governor Ed Rendell needs to make up his mind as to what he wants to do about slot machines in Philadelphia. Originally Rendell had said that he was in support of bringing in slot machines to the state, and by association in support of slot machines for Philadelphia.

However, then he said that he did not necessarily think that slot machines for Philadelphia were a good idea. Rendell said that perhaps Philly should be cut off from the slot machine revenues. Now however, he has changed his mind and says that he no longer supports such legislation and that they should be eligible for the slot machine revenues. He said that there had been enough progress toward building the two new casinos in the city to make the law unnecessary.

The slot machine revenues will be used to help with the high taxes that residents of the state are paying as well as building various civic development projects. But legislation has already started and there is no real chance of it going back. However, Rendell always has the option of not signing such legislation if he chooses to.

He says that he originally said that he would support the legislation because he was frustrated with the lack of cooperation that he was getting in regards to bringing in the slot machines to the city. The Senate Committee has already voted 10-4 to cut off the city, only because they were acting on information that was current at the time. Now that there is very little political opposition to the slot machines they are in a different position with the city.

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