HEY, YOU guys - Tony, Angie - help yourselves to the antipasto, then have a seat. Nice to see you guys. I'm glad all you guys could get here because we need to talk. Somebody we all know and like a lot, another guy - I'm worried about him.
Frankie, get me another J&B! Johnny, it's your deal.
Who am I talking about?
Paulie, you don't know? What's the matter with you?
I'm talking about Bobby.
Three years into being governor - first Republican governor since our ole pally, Ted Agnew - and Bobby's still pushing slot machines.
I mean, it's time to change the subject, for cryin' out loud!
It looks like the only thing he cares about, the only thing that floats his boat. It's like he came into office with that one and only goal in mind.
You know what the guy in the newspaper calls him? Bobby Slots!
Are one-eyed jacks wild?
I mean, you could have enlisted in the Army, gone through basic, been shipped over to Iraq, checked Saddam Hussein for head lice and come home in the time Bobby's been trying to make slots legal here.
Lots of people backed this guy. He's a young Republican in an old Democratic state, and he's had three chances now to prove himself in Annapolis - three General Assembly sessions - and he's blowing it!
I mean, Bobby Slots, politically speaking, is a thoroughbred, but he's turning into a one-trick pony.
Ha, ha. You like that, Charlie? You think that's funny?
It's not funny, Charlie! Shut up!
A guy can't build a long political career out of gambling!
But look what he keeps doing.
Just yesterday, Bobby goes all the way down to Chesapeake Beach to make another one of those photo opportunities, this one at the Rod & Reel Club, where they got video bingo machines, like fake slot machines. Bobby plays one of the machines and loses $25 that he borrowed from his aides. And he tells the reporters there that slots would be good for economic growth.
He thinks this is going to get the General Assembly to legalize slots in Maryland?
I don't get it.
I don't know why the guy's still puttin' his muscle into this.
Somebody's got to talk to him.
Steverino, there's a delicious pot roast on the stove. Put some on your plate.
Whose deal?
Have the salad too, Stevie. Eat up.
