More Join Anti Slot Machine Fray

The group known as Marylanders United to Stop Slots has gotten support from more people as they go on their way. Two Anne Arundel County councilmen have joined the campaign to try and show residents that slot machines are not in their best interest. They don’t want to see gambling at Laurel Park and have thus joined the group to get their support in keeping slot machines out.

Democratic Councilmen Joshua J. Cohen of Annapolis and G. James Benoit of Crownsville joined the group on their third stop on their campaign run against slot machines. They are concerned with how slot machines would impact the quality of life in their county.

They know that their county is looking to get somewhere around 4,700 slot machines if the referendum is approved in November. With those figures, they are looking at basically a third of the state’s slot machines sitting in their own backyard.

The concern is the location for them. They agree that slot machines are the crack cocaine of gambling and they don’t want to see their residents fall prey to the temptation that gambling brings. They don’t want them in their community right by their neighborhoods.


 

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