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Assemblyman Adam Gray has a bill in the works that would ask voters to decide to change the state constitution to legalize sports betting, but this week a campaign emerged that prefers a more direct approach.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Fearing, possibly correctly, that the state\u2019s powerful tribal operators will stall efforts to legalize sports betting in the legislature — just as they have done for many years with online poker — a group called “Californians for Sports Betting” has submitted a petition to the Attorney General\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n
If the petition is approved by the AG, it would need between 500,000 and 600,000 signatures to force a referendum that could legalize sports betting, which would likely be held in 2020.<\/p>\n
The group declined to reveal its financial backers when it spoke to LegalSportsReport<\/em> on Monday, but LSR<\/em> strongly suspects the tribes\u2019 old foes, the card clubs, are bankrolling the campaign.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The jury\u2019s out on whether New York State sports betting can be legalized before the end of the legislative session on June 20, but on Monday, it at least took a step in the right direction. State Assemblyman Gary Pretlow (D-89th) and State Senator John Bonacic (R-42nd) had both submitted similar-but-different bills to their respective […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":80549,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,61,1074],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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