Minnesota Sports Betting Legalization Hits New Roadblocks

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00:00 (upbeat music)

00:02 - Okay, well, Minnesota, the latest in their saga

00:05 to legalize sports betting has taken a very odd turn

00:09 as one of the state senators.

00:10 Is this right here, Pat, that was involved

00:13 in some of the discussion here to legalize it?

00:14 Has some legal issues himself

00:17 with getting this pushed across?

00:18 This is not good news for them.

00:21 - Yeah, again, a state that we've talked about at length,

00:25 ad nauseum, that I continually beat,

00:27 I'm optimistic about and then have to eat my words.

00:30 This year, it looks like it's pretty much dead.

00:33 Has, it looked really promising heading into the year.

00:36 We've, we're told that the tribes and racetracks,

00:39 which are the two major stakeholders at play,

00:41 we're working on it over the break and all this.

00:45 And, well, this year, we've just seen a lot of people

00:48 throwing things at the wall, trying to make things work.

00:50 Then the Minnesota Racing Commission went ahead

00:54 and said that the two tracks can have historical

00:57 horse racing machines, which are basically slot machines.

01:01 That made the tribes mad.

01:02 Now there's a new bill that's saying,

01:04 well, you can't have those.

01:07 And then we've had a tribe sue a couple of casinos

01:12 because they're offering games.

01:13 So the tribes and tracks are seemingly

01:15 farther and farther apart.

01:17 Then, yeah, we've seen the Senate become kind of a mess.

01:21 A senator was arrested for breaking into her,

01:25 I believe step-mom's house to get things that her father,

01:29 her deceased father wanted her to have.

01:32 And so she's arrested.

01:33 The Republicans want this Democratic senator

01:37 stripped of committees and voting power.

01:39 The Democrats, who hold a one vote majority,

01:42 don't want to lose that.

01:44 And so we've seen multiple senators and representatives say,

01:50 if this House proposal gets to the Senate,

01:52 the Senate's a mess and they're not going to act on it.

01:55 So basically, whether it's the proposal itself

01:59 being a problem because the tribes don't agree.

02:04 So the Republicans who support the tracks

02:06 and the Democrats who support the tribes don't agree.

02:10 So there's that, but then there's on top of that,

02:13 the mess in the Senate that is now going to gum up

02:16 almost everything, not just sports betting.

02:18 So yeah, Minnesota, again,

02:21 I was super high on it heading into the year.

02:24 Now I'm not.

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