Lawmakers Say Congress Won't Allow Slots in D.C (WaPo)

[northzax]

Lawmakers Say Congress Won't Allow Slots in D.C.

By Spencer S. Hsu and Lori Montgomery
Washington Post Staff Writers
Tuesday, July 13, 2004; Page A01


Congress will halt any attempt to bring slot machines to the nation's capital if a referendum is placed on the November ballot and approved by voters, two influential members predicted yesterday.

Northern Virginia Republican Reps. Frank R. Wolf, chairman of a U.S. commission that recommended a national moratorium on gambling in 1999, and Thomas M. Davis III, chairman of the Government Reform Committee, delivered a clear signal to colleagues and D.C. officials that the unfolding voter initiative faces opposition in Congress, whatever its fate in the District.

read on, mates: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45297-2004Jul12.html


ok, one more thing that pisses me off. this slots thing is a bad deal for DC, no doubt and I am 100% opposed. But the fact that Congress gets to decide how the city can raise money, without appropriating any more is just lame.

graffiti on a busted up house near my apartment (9th&U, nw): Washington and Baghdad: ruins and limited soveriegnty."

[Skinner]

1. I agree.

I think slots are a bad idea for DC. But it pisses me off too that congress tells us what to do. :grr: