With sports betting out of the 2021 Massachusetts budget, it’s back to the drawing board for lawmakers who support legalizing the expanded gambling activity.<\/p>\n
Governor Charlie Baker (R) filed legislation in January to legalize sports betting on professional sports for adults over the age of 21 at the state’s casinos and online. But in July, the governor said there had been little movement by state lawmakers on the matter.<\/p>\n
\nWe wanted to give Massachusetts the ability to have people play here rather than playing elsewhere,” Baker explained. “In addition to sort of the cross-border competition issues that would be addressed by doing something here in Massachusetts, it would certainly generate revenue, and it would be something that a lot of people would be interested in here at home, as opposed to doing across the border.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
Pacheco is committed to getting sports betting across the legal goal line.<\/p>\n
“If we don’t do it in this bill [budget], we should absolutely get to work before we end this year to make sure this is done,” Pacheco said. “I am very concerned that we are going to be missing the boat on this.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The New England Patriots and Boston Red Sox have both lent their support to their home state legalizing sports betting. Two of the most beloved franchises in US sports both believe regulated sports betting will create new jobs in Massachusetts, which are desperately needed in wake of COVID-19. Passing sports betting will protect and create […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":155999,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,1074],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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