3/21/2005
Slots were never about education
Fred Grimm has an excellent column about the rough treatment Broward School Board member got in Tallahasse for daring to ask that 50 percent of slots proceeds go to schools.
Suddenly Steve Geller ripped into Gallagher as if this notion of extracting a higher return on behalf of education was an affront to him personally. Perhaps it was. Sen. Geller, a Democrat from Hallandale Beach, has become the parimutuels' very own scullery maid in Tallahassee. On Wednesday, he became the gambling industry's bully boy.
''It's clear to me you have no idea what you're speaking about when you're doing this,'' Geller said. ``I don't know why the School Board is interjecting itself into something they clearly know so little about.''
. . . The bully boys' performance in Tallahassee destroyed the marketing facade. This was definitely not about education.
