Pimlico Special Not Being Carded This Year

[estreetposse]

Originally Posted by ddthetide

i live in western md. i'm 70-90 minutes from the baltimore tracks. we don't go down that way. the traffic is terrible, they charge to get into the track. they have a seat charge for the dining room and the cost of drinks were rediculous ($3.00 for soft drinks, per glass). not to mention the neighborhoods around pimlico are NOT the best anymore.

we can be at an OTB in Pa. in 20-30 minutes or go to charlestown in 45 minutes. we can have a nice dinner play the horses and my wife plays some slots. it's clean comfortable and the neighborhood is decent.

the represenitives from western md are against slots. part of the fight is, they don't want to open slots or OTB's acrossed the state. they are tring to keep them in baltimore at the tracks. so the rest of the state does not get the benefits of jobs created.

2007 slots are already a dead issue last i read BUT with the new administration they are willing to talk about it for 2008. thats just plan politics! the last adminstration fought tooth and nail for slots and could not get it through after promising magna it would.
this state WON'T wake up until the Preakness is gone!

All thanks to former Gov. PARRIS GLENDENING. This is the guy who shot down slots every year while in office, now people are following in his footsteps. Rumor has it, Glendening's grandparents were compulsive gamblers and he watched them go through ALL their money playing the slots ... so that's why he was so against the idea in the first place

IMO slots generate revenue and provide tons of employment as well as tax money. But, slots bring in a "bad element", as if maryland needed more help. I think crime would increase drastically. If it didn't help horse racing out i wouldn't care for slots at all. Sooo many times i go up to places like Charles Town and i see the out of state buses shuttling more and more people in, i say why not pay the extra $50 or so and head up to AC? When slots come into a race track it definitely brings a new breed to the grounds, one i don't care for much either

-bt-

[slotdirt]

If you've been to Charles Town, I'm sure you would agree the slots have actually improved the clientele. I can't imagine the same wouldn't be the case at Laurel or Pimlico or Timonium.

[ddthetide]

we'd be plenty happy to spend our money in state IF we could.

we've been over to CT on saturdays for dinner and the races and seen people playing slots that look like they are playing their last dime! other times we've seen s more "up scale" clientele.

you are correct about Md. actracting criminals. i live in and work for the city of hagerstown. i'm a serviceman for the light dept. with 20 years service. you would NOT Beleive the amount of trash that has moved in to hagerstown! because I81 and I70 intersect. easy access east-west, north-south.
i honestly don't feel safe somedays doin my job and hagerstown is only a city of 30,000 people.