At its Tuesday, September 23, 2008 monthly meeting, the Baltimore City Branch of the NAACP held a speak-out against Question 2, the referendum on the November 4, 2008 general election ballot that would bring slot machine gambling to Maryland. Speakers in the first hour (part one) were Rev. Heber Brown, III (Pastor, Pleasant Hope Baptist Church), Peter Franchot (Comptroller of Maryland), Del. Jill P. Carter (Maryland House of Delegates, District 41), Rev. Johnny Golden (President, Interdenominational Ministerial Alliance), Rev. Boyer Freeman (United Baptist Missionary Convention & Auxiliaries of Maryland). Speakers in the second hour (part two) were: Maria Allwine (Co-Chair, Maryland Green Party), Dr. Tyrone Powers (Children 1st Movement), Scott Arceneaux (Marylanders United to Stop Slots), Denise Lowery (Maryland Coalition to Stop the BGE Rate Hikes), Aaron Wilkes (an East Baltimore activist), and Leo Burroughs, Jr. (Chairman, Maryland Coalition to Stop the BGE Rate Hikes).

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