Casino Proposal 

With the state cutting $454 million from their budget – and it coming out of the budgets for the community colleges, health departments, etc. – residents are clamoring for slot machines. The state approved the addition of the slot machines last year, but residents have yet to pull a single handle so they are starting to wonder exactly how long this is going to take.  

However, with a stalemate over the slot machines that are to come into Anne Arundel County, their Council seems to be holding things up. There is legislation that is expected to address traffic and crime concerns that residents have – and nothing has been done on it yet. Residents want slot machines but they also want to know that things are going to be taken care of properly when they get here.  

The problem is that the each portion of the slot machine mess says that they need something from the other before they can move forward on it. Group A needs something from Group B before they can move forward to C – but Group B needs something from A, and so on and so forth. 

David Cordish is ready and willing to break ground on a slot machine casino as soon as everyone else has their ducks in a row. They are bringing in almost five thousand slot machines, as well as an entire entertainment complex. There will be plenty for all to do – if they could just get it built. However, depending on how everything else pans out – when all is said and done the slot machine package that the developer originally signed up for may not be the same – which means he would have the right to walk away and all of this would start over again.