Currie: Slots will pass

Several senators raised problems they had with Gov. Martin O?Malley?s slot machine proposal during a Budget and Taxation Committee work session Monday. But its chairman, Sen. Ulysses Currie, predicted that once changes are made in the plan, “I think the votes are probably there to pass this.”

After observing much of the work session, Senate President Thomas Mike Miller, the legislature?s most fervent slots advocate, said, “for the most part, the bill is satisfactory,” but he still opposed putting the slots gambling on a referendum for voters next year.