Posted by Phil Lee at pflee@NOSPAMwdn.com (66.217.129.41) on April 01, 2004 at 23:15:
Polls in favor of slots rejected
By Robert Redding Jr.
THE WASHINGTON TIMES 4/1/04, B1
ANNAPOLIS — Democratic lawmakers yesterday dismissed two recent opinion polls indicating that a majority of Marylanders favor a plan by Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr., a Republican, to license slot machines to pay for public education.
"The polling changes day to day and from month to month," said House Speaker Michael E. Busch, an Anne Arundel Democrat and a leading opponent of the slots proposal.
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House Ways and Means Chairman Sheila Ellis Hixson, a Montgomery Democrat whose committee is considering the bill, also downplayed the results.
"Polls are polls," she said. "It depends on what you are asking and who is asking."
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