Pg Clergy Lobbying Against Slots Plan ; Wary Lawmakers Exclude Rosecroft

The Washington Times › February 23, 2005

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Church leaders in Prince George's County have mobilized a considerable lobbying campaign against legislation that could establish slot-machine gambling in the county and the state.

"We have put the call out to every pastor to fax, e-mail and call members of the [county] delegation to Annapolis to express their vehement opposition to any further form of gambling to be introduced into the state of Maryland," said the Rev. Jonathan L. Weaver, president of the 200-member-church Collective Banking Group of Prince George's County.

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Pg Clergy Lobbying Against Slots Plan ; Wary Lawmakers Exclude Rosecroft

The county has become a battleground on the slots gambling issue. Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr., a Republican, has proposed placing some machines at the Rosecroft harness-racing track in...

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