Senate District Candidates Differ on Gambling 

Pennsylvania’s race for the 48^th State Senate District is starting to heat up. Candidates Mike Folmer and John Liss share a lot of the same ideas and think very similarly on political reform and other issues, however, with gambling, they are on opposite sides of the fence. 

Yesterday both candidates were at the HACC’s Lebanon Campus at an AARP sponsored event. They had a chance to discuss their positions on a number of topics, and gambling was one of them. Liss mentioned first that the current property tax system needed fixing, but that he thought the slot machines might have some impact on that. He said it was way too early to know, so they would have to wait to make a decision as to whether or not it was any kind of solution. 

Folmer was adamantly opposed to slot machine gambling. He said that they were another way to “feed the monster” of government. He thought that the number of social ills and problems that would come with bringing in slot machines were just not worth any amount of slot machine revenue that would come in. 

Liss admitted to liking slot machines, and said he had taken the random trips to Las Vegas and Atlantic City. He said that since the state already allows other types of gambling, that it didn’t really make sense not to allow slot machines as well – and that any perceived problems would already exist – the slot machines wouldn’t all of a sudden bring in problems that weren’t here before. He said that any problems they did bring in would probably be minimal.

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