{"id":2818,"date":"2024-08-01T14:19:39","date_gmt":"2024-08-01T14:19:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/restaurace-pohoda.eu\/?p=2818"},"modified":"2024-08-15T13:32:26","modified_gmt":"2024-08-15T13:32:26","slug":"nebraska-online-sports-betting-remains-divisive-stakeholders-mull-legalization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/restaurace-pohoda.eu\/index.php\/2024\/08\/01\/nebraska-online-sports-betting-remains-divisive-stakeholders-mull-legalization\/","title":{"rendered":"Nebraska Online Sports Betting Remains Divisive, Stakeholders Mull Legalization"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nebraska lawmakers and gaming industry stakeholders gathered this week in the Lincoln capital to discuss the pros and cons of expanding sports betting to the internet. It quickly became apparent that the issue remains polarizing.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Sports bettors place their bets at WarHorse Lincoln in March 2024. Sports betting in Nebraska remains limited to retail operations, but some lawmakers want to expand such wagering to the internet. (Image: Lincoln Journal Star<\/em>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Nebraska Legislature is amid a special session called by Gov. Jim Pillen (R) to find ways to ease property tax burdens<\/a> on homeowners. State Sens. Eliot Bostar (D-Lincoln) and Terrell McKinney (D-North Omaha) think allowing online sports betting is one viable solution.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Nebraska is currently missing out on a $1.6 billion state industry and $32 million in annual tax revenue, which instead goes to neighboring states like Iowa, Colorado, Kansas, and Wyoming,\u201d Bostar said before the General Affairs Committee on Wednesday. \u201cLegalizing online mobile sports betting \u2026 could significantly boost state revenues dedicated to the property tax credit fund.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Currently, sports betting is only allowed in person at one of the state\u2019s commercial casinos<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Pros and Cons<\/b><\/span>\u00a0<\/b><\/span><\/h2>\n

Pillen has recently become supportive of mobile sports gambling. For online sportsbooks to come to the Cornhusker State, Nebraskans would need to amend their state constitution to allow such gambling through a statewide ballot referendum.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Such referendums in Nebraska can only be held in even-numbered years, meaning if the state doesn\u2019t act quickly to get the measure on the November 5 ballot, Nebraskans will have to wait until at least 2026.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

The committee mulling online sports betting heard from Danny DiRienzo of GeoComply, the leading geolocation provider that works with most legal online sportsbooks in the US. DiRienzo, the company\u2019s senior director of risk services, says GeoComply last year processed over a half-million location checks from an Iowa cornfield just across the Nebraska border.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t know if this is the busiest cornfield in the state, in the US. I suspect it is. I would submit that is not organic Iowa sports betting traffic. That is very likely all related to Nebraskans crossing the border to place a legal wager,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n

Tom Osborne, the legendary coach of the Nebraska Cornhuskers football team who led the program to three national titles in the 1990s, remains an outspoken critic of online sports gambling. Osborne, who\u2019s become a political operative<\/a> since exiting collegiate sports, questioned Bostar\u2019s lofty tax revenue projections.<\/span><\/p>\n

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If all of the revenue that I hear are going to Iowa was that beneficial, you would think that Council Bluffs would look like Abu Dhabi. It doesn\u2019t,\u201d Osborne said.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Even if $32 million a year was a realistic online sports betting tax benefit, gambling foe Pat Loontjer, a political activist nicknamed the \u201cGrassroots Grandma,\u201d says that would do little to help homeowners. Nebraska collected $5.3 billion in property taxes last year.<\/span><\/p>\n

Consumer Protections<\/b><\/span><\/h2>\n

Pillen thinks online sports betting would do more than just help marginally with property taxes. The governor says people who wish to bet on sports online are already doing so on offshore, unregulated websites that provide no consumer safeguards.<\/span><\/p>\n

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We\u2019re already absorbing the societal and social costs of having a gambling population that has access to gambling at their fingertips. We already are. We\u2019re just not getting any of the benefits,\u201d Pillen said.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The country\u2019s largest sportsbooks \u2014 DraftKings, FanDuel, BetMGM, and Caesars Sportsbook \u2014 earlier this year mulled funding an initiative<\/a> to place an online sports betting question before voters in November. But the books said polling suggested the outcome would be close, and with a campaign likely to cost around $7 million, they folded on the initiative<\/a>. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Nebraska lawmakers and gaming industry stakeholders gathered this week in the Lincoln capital to discuss the pros and cons of expanding sports betting to the internet. It quickly became apparent that the issue remains polarizing. Sports bettors place their bets at WarHorse Lincoln in March 2024. Sports betting in Nebraska remains limited to retail operations,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2820,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/restaurace-pohoda.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2818"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/restaurace-pohoda.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/restaurace-pohoda.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/restaurace-pohoda.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/restaurace-pohoda.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2818"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/restaurace-pohoda.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2821,"href":"http:\/\/restaurace-pohoda.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2818\/revisions\/2821"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/restaurace-pohoda.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/restaurace-pohoda.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/restaurace-pohoda.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/restaurace-pohoda.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}