Del. Susan Krebs is a Carroll County Republican in her second term. A Ways and Means Committee member, Krebs argued strongly for giving local governments more say about locating slot machine voting in their counties.
Do you like the proposed Pendergrass amendment that would put slots only in those places that voted for it?
Absolutely. In the Republican proposal, each area would have had to decide whether they liked their location. It shouldn?t just be jammed down their throats by the bigger jurisdictions in the state who rejected slots for their own counties. That is just incredible to me.
Prince George?s County has been adamantly against slots in their county. That?s fine, and they?ve got them out of the way. Now they?re putting them in places where people have no say.
Should ajurisdiction just be able to say we don?t want slots at all?
They?ve done that everywhere else. They?ve done it in Prince George?s, in Montgomery. Baltimore City has determined where they want theirs. I think that?s fine. But they determined their own fate. These other areas have had no say in it, such as Ocean City.
What?s your view of the way the whole session has gone?
I think the special session has been a total circus. I wish we could televise every moment of what?s going on here. I think the people would be appalled at the process going on down here. The fact that we are passing a constitutional amendment and we don?t even have a piece of legislation to go with it and we might not even do it before the election. I can?t imagine how they vote on something when they don?t know what it is they?re voting for.
But they?ve done that many times down here in the past. I don?t think the legislators care very much about the details of what they?re voting for.
