Maryland Legislature Slots Poodles? November 21, 2007. DC Examiner:" Success on budget just about got away. 'Success was not inevitable,' O’Malley told WBAL radio’s Scott Wycoff. 'It could have gone very, very poorly. Three days before the close, there were many of us who thought that we had given it our best shot but this wasn’t going to happen. . . . . "Without the support of a handful of Republicans in both House [Elmore, Impallaria, Kach, King, Weldon] and Senate [Edwards, Munson], the governor’s proposed constitutional referendum on slot machine gambling and the detailed bill to implement it would have gone down to defeat, despite heavy Democratic majorities in both houses." Read more. First posted November 2007 on Maryland Taxpayers Association website. Also see Maryland Senate Tax Poodles.
Man's Best Friend	Senator Wade Kach	Senator George Edwards	Delegate Don Munson	Delegate James King	Delegate Richard Impallaria	Delegate Richard Weldon	Delegate D. Page Emore*
*Delegate D. Page Elmore died in 2010.