a bill to establish a lottery<\/a>.<\/p>\nFor Sanford\u2019s lottery dream to become a reality, Alabama would have to amend its constitution to legalize commercial gaming through a public referendum, an idea that has little support in the legislature. When the same question was put to the public in 1999, it was emphatically rejected by voters.<\/p>\n
Despite his lottery bill being approved by a Senate committee last month, Sanford has suggested his odds of passing this one are \u201cslim to none.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Alabama\u2019s daily fantasy sports bill went down in flames in the State Senate on Wednesday. Despite being unanimously approved by the Senate Tourism and Marketing Committee earlier this month, Senator Paul Sanford\u2019s bill didn\u2019t even make the vote yesterday \u2013 a fate that has befallen both of the dogged senator\u2019s previous attempts to legalize DFS […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":73106,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14007,13,13699,61],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
Alabama Daily Fantasy Sports Bill Throttled to Death on Senate Floor<\/title>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n