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A Political Victory So Very Personal
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"When you've been on line that long, all of a sudden early voting looks wonderful," he said.
Not everyone had the presidential race in mind last week.
Former state senator Gloria G. Lawlah (D), Maryland's secretary of aging, sat in the county Board of Elections office last Tuesday night anxiously waiting for results on the proposed state constitutional amendment to legalize slot machine gambling. The measure passed overwhelmingly, with 59 percent of Maryland voters giving it their support, and the Prince George's vote mirrored the statewide outcome.
For months, Lawlah had campaigned in favor of the initiative, saying she supported it because some of the anticipated revenue would be dedicated to education.
"I served on the Thornton Commission," she said of the panel that studied the needs of the state's public schools. "The problem was we never found a new stream of money to pay for" education.
Staff writer Rosalind S. Helderman contributed to this report.
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