{"id":148493,"date":"2020-09-12T16:39:25","date_gmt":"2020-09-12T23:39:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/?p=148493"},"modified":"2020-09-12T17:58:49","modified_gmt":"2020-09-13T00:58:49","slug":"louisiana-wins-unveiling-pro-sports-betting-push-during-saints-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/louisiana-wins-unveiling-pro-sports-betting-push-during-saints-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Louisiana Wins Unveiling Pro-Sports Betting Push During Saints Game"},"content":{"rendered":"

Louisiana Wins, an advocacy group supporting the legalization of sports wagering in the Pelican State, will run a commercial during Sunday’s New Orleans Saints\/Tampa Bay Buccaneers game urging voters to get behind sports betting.<\/p>\n

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Voters seen at a Louisiana polling site during presidential primaries earlier this year. An advocacy group is running a commercial urging support for sports betting. (Image: Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In June, Gov. John Bel Edwards (D-LA) signed into law Senate Bill 130, which was authored Republican Sen. Cameron Henry. That legislation gives voters the chance to mull sports betting on a parish-by-parish basis<\/a> on Nov. 3. What that means is that as long as a majority of voters in any of Louisiana’s 64 parishes — the state’s equivalent of counties — approve sports betting, it will be authorized in that area.<\/p>\n

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Using a 2018 vote on<\/a> daily fantasy sports (DFS), in which 47 parishes said \u201cyes\u201d as a template, it’s widely expected the Pelican State will join the legal sports betting fray later this year. State political observers are forecasting easy passage of the sports wagering ballot question in Louisiana’s major population centers, with resistance coming in smaller regions with heavy concentrations of Evangelical Christians.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

The commercial being aired by Louisiana Wins, which can be seen below, is the organization’s first. It’s not clear if the group will continue television advertising during upcoming Saints games, or when LSU kicks off its season on Sept. 26. The first legitimate bet won’t be placed in the state until next year, because policymakers must use the 2021 legislative session to debate and set sports betting tax policy.<\/p>\n

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