Sports Gambling in The Deep South!

.....as in Mississippi, not Alabama.

The Washington Post speculates there are five states likely to be the first to launch gambling on sporting events now that the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled they can.

     Alabama is not on the list, of course. 
     We hate gambling (except for the people who flock to the Porch Creek casinos and those who cross the state line to buy lottery tickets in just about every state around us.

Here's why The Post thinks Mississippi will be among the first:

"Last year, Mississippi lawmakers legalized sports gambling in the event that the Supreme Court ruled in New Jersey’s favor. Now that that’s happened, expect it to be up and running at the state’s 28 casinos by the end of the summer “if not sooner,” Allen Godfrey, executive director of the Mississippi Gaming Association, told the Sun Herald. The state still needs to hold a public-comment session on the proposed sports-gambling regulations, which will take effect 30 days after they are approved by the Gaming Commission.

No matter when it happens, Mississippi almost certainly will be the first state in the Southeast to allow sports gambling. Louisiana, which has casinos, is the only neighboring state that has some sort of sports-gambling legislation on the table, but nothing is expected to pass until next year at the earliest unless Gov. John Bel Edwards calls for it to be discussed during a special session of the state’s legislature.

“Not only are we not going to get anything out of it, we’re going to lose money,” Louisiana State Sen. Danny Martiny said Monday after the Supreme Court’s decision. Gulfport and Biloxi, home to a number of casinos in Mississippi, are only about a 90-minute drive east of New Orleans."

Alabama has ZERO control, and gets zero income from them.

   




  

Alabama could rake in some significant income from gambling if they would negotiate with the local tribe to allow them to offer true casino gambling in return for paying taxes on the income they rake in at their state casinos.