{"id":683,"date":"2022-09-14T00:12:46","date_gmt":"2022-09-13T21:12:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xxbet-company.com\/stacey-abrams-looking-to-sports-betting-bulldogs-football-in-georgia-governor-race\/"},"modified":"2022-09-14T00:12:46","modified_gmt":"2022-09-13T21:12:46","slug":"stacey-abrams-looking-to-sports-betting-bulldogs-football-in-georgia-governor-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xxbet-company.com\/es\/stacey-abrams-looking-to-sports-betting-bulldogs-football-in-georgia-governor-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Stacey Abrams Looking to Sports Betting, Bulldogs Football in Georgia Governor Race"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_34 counter-flat ez-toc-counter ez-toc-transparent ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\">Tabla de contenidos<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><\/span><\/div>\n<nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1'><li class='ez-toc-page-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/xxbet-company.com\/es\/stacey-abrams-looking-to-sports-betting-bulldogs-football-in-georgia-governor-race\/#Fact-Checking_Abrams\" title=\"Fact-Checking Abrams\">Fact-Checking Abrams<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/xxbet-company.com\/es\/stacey-abrams-looking-to-sports-betting-bulldogs-football-in-georgia-governor-race\/#Georgia_Gaming_History_Is_Rough\" title=\"Georgia Gaming History Is Rough\">Georgia Gaming History Is Rough<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<p>Georgia Democrat gubernatorial nominee Stacey Abrams is again attempting to leverage the issue of sports betting as part of her bid to unseat incumbent Republican Gov. Brian Kemp.<\/p>\n<figure aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-231647\" data-style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-231647 lazyload\" src=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/SA2-142x95.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/SA2-142x95.jpg\" alt=\"Abrams betting\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/SA2-142x95.jpg 142w, https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/SA2-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/SA2-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/SA2-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/SA2.jpg 1160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" data- title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-231647\" src=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/SA2-142x95.jpg\" alt=\"Abrams betting\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/SA2-142x95.jpg 142w, https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/SA2-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/SA2-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/SA2-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/SA2.jpg 1160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" title=\"\"><figcaption class=\"text-description\">Georgia Democrat gubernatorial nominee Stacey Abrams at a 2021 press event. She\u2019s renewing calls for the state to legalize sports betting. (Image: <em>AP<\/em>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Looking to capitalize on the start of the 2022 college football season and the immense popularity of the defending national champion Georgia Bulldogs in the state, Abrams unveiled a new online campaign ad. It is taking Kemp to task for opposing regulated sports betting.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"main-blockquote\">\n<p><strong>While Georgians still place bets, Kemp is forcing them out of state to do it, taking the tax dollars with them,\u201d<\/strong> according to the spot.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In their 2018 matchup that Kemp narrowly won, he opposed sports betting. His position now is that he has no position, according to a spokesman. It\u2019s not uncommon for incumbent governors to take that stance. For example, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/california-sports-betting-la-times-editorial-urges-voters-to-reject-prop-26-and-27\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">California is in the midst<\/a> of a contentious commercial\/tribal sports betting ballot fight and Gov. Gavin Newsom \u2014 a Democrat whose politics are the polar opposite of Kemp\u2019s \u2014 is staying out of the fight.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Fact-Checking_Abrams\"><\/span>Fact-Checking Abrams<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Abrams\u2019 claim that Georgians are leaving the state to place sports bets may have some merit. Since the 2018 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/ohio-officials-weigh-in-on-1b-net-revenue-record-at-racinos\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Supreme Court ruling<\/a> on the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act (PASPA), politicians claiming residents in their state are going to another to make sports bet is a frequently deployed tactic that has some credibility.<\/p>\n<div class=\"callout\">\n<p>Of three states bordering Georgia, only Tennessee offers mobile sports betting. The Volunteer State\u2019s border is a lengthy drive from Fulton County \u2014 Georgia\u2019s most populous county. It\u2019s a 250-mile drive to Nashville from Atlanta.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The point is, some Georgians probably are driving to Tennessee to place sports bets. But the extent to which that is happening probably isn\u2019t comparable to the New York-to-New Jersey trips that were so common prior to the former legalizing mobile betting.<\/p>\n<p>Paid for by One Georgia Inc., the ad says Abrams, if elected, will work to legalize sports betting \u201cto invest in education for our young people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>In Georgia, lottery<\/strong> <strong>spending funds the HOPE college scholarship program. But as Georgia has added population, HOPE is only funding 70% of recipients\u2019 university costs. That shortfall has prompted some politicians to pitch casinos and sports betting as avenues for filling the void.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Georgia_Gaming_History_Is_Rough\"><\/span>Georgia Gaming History Is Rough<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Beyond the lottery, the state has long been against other regulated forms of gaming, including commercial and tribal casinos and sports betting. The 2022 legislative session of the state\u2019s General Assembly concluded in April with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/georgia-sports-betting-gaming-legalization-efforts-dead-for-2022\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">no concrete action on casinos<\/a> and sports wagering.<\/p>\n<p><strong>In Georgia, sports betting failed to gain traction in recent legislative sessions despite support from Atlanta pro sports teams, including the NFL\u2019s Falcons and the NBA\u2019s Hawks.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sen. Jeff Mullis \u2014 a Republican who previously proposed Georgia sports betting legislation \u2014 estimated bettors in the state could generate an annual handle of $4.8 billion, leading to tax revenue of about $360 million.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/stacey-abrams-pushes-for-georgia-sports-betting-in-new-ad\/\" target=\"_blank\">Stacey Abrams Looking to Sports Betting, Bulldogs Football in Georgia Governor Race<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\" target=\"_blank\">Casino.org<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Georgia Democrat gubernatorial nominee Stacey Abrams is again attempting to leverage the issue of sports betting as part of her bid to unseat incumbent Republican Gov. Brian Kemp. Georgia Democrat gubernatorial nominee Stacey Abrams at a 2021 press event. She\u2019s renewing calls for the state to legalize sports betting. 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