Alabama Attorney General Luther Strange talked about bingo, the oil spill settlement and other topics during a visit Monday with the Selma Rotary Club.

Strange spent much of his time with the club talking about the Deepwater Horizon oil spill settlement, which awarded the state approximately $1 billion.

Strange was the Gulf states coordinating counsel for the case, which was heard in federal court in New Orleans.

“The state of Alabama came out altogether better than I think any other state,” Strange said, adding private citizens and businesses across the state were able to file claims for damages. “My only goal was to get the maximum of money as soon as possible and then stand out of the way why they try to divide it up in Montgomery.”

In a special session this summer, the Legislature voted to use $400 million to repay money borrowed from the Alabama Trust Fund since 2009. Another $120 million will be used to shore up Medicaid for the next two years, while another $120 million will be used for road projects in Baldwin and Mobile counties.

Strange also addressed cuts to the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency, which has seen traffic deaths rise by 25 percent this year compared to last. “We have fewer state troopers on the roads here in Alabama than we have ever. I just don’t think there is any coincidence that we have almost no troopers on the road and our public safety is being impacted,” Strange said.

The attorney general also talked about electronic bingo. Recently, VictoryLand reopened in Macon County to thousands of visitors.

Strange said his office wants to enforce the law whatever it is, and the Alabama Supreme Court has ruled the bingo machines unconstitutional.

“They couldn’t have said it more clearly that you cannot play bingo on an electronic machine, you know, a slot machine. I thought that was the end of it,” Strange said.

Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley and Strange have sent a letter to local law enforcement asking them to close the bingo halls.

“Now we are waiting to see what they are going to do. If they don’t do t hat, then what do you do? It becomes tricky,” Strange said.