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Maryland's referendum over gambling expansion has been dominated by the lavish spending of rival casino giants on slick advertising campaigns, but for some voters, the issue is deeply felt and intensely personal. - After spending more than $50 million to influence voters, the campaigns on both sides of the Question 7 debate can find nothing better to argue about than where Jonathan Ogden lives.
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- Proponents of expanded gambling have enlisted four leading political figures, including Gov. Martin O'Malley, to make television ads assuring voters that the additional money expected to flow into state coffers will go to education.
- Proponents of expanded gambling have enlisted four leading political figures, including Gov. Martin O'Malley, to make television ads assuring voters that the additional money expected to flow into state coffers will go to education.
- Curry to bring grassroots touch to pro-casino campaign
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- Baltimore television stations were expecting little in the way of political advertising this campaign year. Then the fight over expanded gambling in Maryland erupted, pitting deep-pocketed and competing casino companies against one another.
- A study saying Maryland needs to approve Question 7 to avoid sending $1.5 billion to West Virginia over the next decade is flawed.
- The main ballot committee supporting same-sex marriage in Maryland has raised $3.2 million and still has $1.2 million in its war chest to defend the law in the Nov. 6 referendum, according to a disclosure filed last night with the State Board of Elections.
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- The debate over expanding gaming in Maryland will ultimately be decided by the people, but to help them pick, casino companies on both sides have now contributed more than $26.7 million to campaigns for and against Question 7.
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- A new 30-second television spot against expanded gambling in Maryland — funded by West Virginia casino owner Penn National Gaming — makes it point by challenging an earlier ad by the other side.
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- A new round of spending by Penn National Gaming and MGM Resorts International has pushed the ad war in the referendum over expanded gambling into record territory — eclipsing the $34 million raised for the 2006 governor's race with four weeks to go before Election Day.
- Casino ad blitz sets Maryland political spending record
- Gov. Martin O'Malley's tirade about anti-gambling expansion ads rest on a narrow, technical point that fails to tell the whole story about Question 7.
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- The Washington Redskins football team endorsed a yes vote in the ultra-expensive gambling expansion referendum heading for the Maryland ballot this fall, contending the measure will bring thousands of jobs to Prince George's County.
- Caesars, Peterson pour more cash into casino campaign
- Five weeks before the election, a measure to legalize same-sex marriage in Maryland has seen a surge of support and is now favored by likely voters, 49 percent to 39 percent, a new Baltimore Sun poll has found.
- For three casino giants trying to persuade Marylanders to vote for or against more gambling here, the long-term stakes could be in the billions.
- Panel to urge more disclosure of independent spending
- Some gambling opponents are hoping to block a sixth casino from being built in Maryland by focusing their energy in one place: Prince George's County.
- Maryland usually gets bypassed during election years, when other states get the bulk of presidential ad buys. But the Question 7 referendum on expanding gambling has filled out airwaves this year as casinos battle each other for a share of the state's gambling pie.
- Howard County Executive Ken Ulman Thursday made his first public statement in support of the gambling expansion question that will appear on November's ballot.
- As November gets closer, Prince George's County Executive Rushern Baker III is increasing his efforts to drum up support for the gambling expansion question that will be on November's ballot.
- With seven weeks to go before the Nov. 6 election, gambling interests with a stake in the casino expansion referendum have raised more than the candidates spent in Maryland's last governor's race — previously the most expensive in state history.
- Lobbying lawmakers and voters for casino expansion proves highly profitable, so why not ponder Question 7 over and over again?
- Casino owners, labor and other interests spent more than $3.6 million to influence lawmakers during last month's special session to expand gambling in Maryland — a figure that amounts to roughly $900,000 a day for the four-day session, according to disclosure reports filed Monday.
- Labor group reports spending $2.7 million on casino fight
- Cordish mum on referendum question at Arundel casino event.
- MGM Resorts International will open a visitor center at National Harbor next week as part of its campaign to win approval of its plans to build a "destination" casino at the site on the Potomac River.
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- Maryland Live accounts for 73 percent of all revenue in third month of operation; Penn National continues losing money
- Gambling giant Penn National Gaming Inc. wrote a check for $5.5 million last week to limit gambling in Maryland, the latest move in a casino vs. casino battle that could saturate the airwaves and overwhelm other ballot initiatives this fall.
- Penn National-backed group launches anti-casino ad
- Maryland enters uncharted political territory this fall as voters for the first time in decades face four major ballot questions. It is likely to feature an onslaught of costly advertising as competing interests — from all over the country — try to sway the state's electorate
- Ten hours after the General Assembly gave final approval to an expansion of gambling in Maryland, Gov. Martin O'Malley signed the bill that will put the hard-fought issue before the voters in November.
