So I have a modest proposal to make (and if I get $120,000 in contributions from gaming interests, you can be sure I'll get less modest about it): Put slot machines in school cafeterias and let the schools benefit directly from the gaming industry. I think our children deserve first consideration. It isn't clear how much money the slots will produce for schools. After all, even though the governor says he wants slot machines to produce money for the schools, the initial impetus for bringing them back to Maryland was to save the state's racing industry. Maybe the $120,000 in campaign contributions that The Washington Post reported he received from the gambling industry wasn't enough to generate the kind of out-of-the-box thinking needed in these difficult times. I'm a little surprised at the narrow scope of Ehrlich's vision. ![]() (Pass the slots bill, or she goes first, the governor might as well have said.) Grasmick, sit next to him during his presentation and speak movingly about the plight of schoolchildren. To make the connection crystal clear, Ehrlich had the state superintendent of schools, Nancy S. ![]() It's about time someone came straight with the public, as our new governor did last week: Either we put slot machines at racetracks, he told the House Ways and Means Committee of the Maryland General Assembly, or schools won't get state money.
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