Sports Betting: Let’s Do it Right
It is happening. Fine. I’m against it, but whatever. Here are my three demand in order of importance:
1) This should not be the “Denis McGlynn /Michele Rollins Enrichment Act.”
Open up sports betting other venues. Why should McGlyn and two other people in the State get a license to print money? Allow betting in WIlmington and Rehoboth. The imaginary monopoly that the tracks enforce is BS. We have long since given up the pretense that gaming is here to help the horse racing industry. Competition rules! Free market baby, yeah!
2) Let’s just get to the bottom of the slippery slope already.
In two year we all know that the sudden flush of sports betting cash is going to be absorbed into the budget and the pretend legal advantage Delaware enjoys over other eastern states will evaporate, so let’s cut the bullshit and go right to table games. Craps. Roulette. Blackjack. What’s the argument for not having them if we have slots and sports book? There is a demand for a legal well regulated poker room here in Delaware. Let’s not leave all of that tax money uncollected. Also – along these lines…if it is going to be sports betting make it real sports betting, not the half-assed lottery thing that I’ve heard described.
3) Put some of the money in a trust.
Like I said in two years the money surge will subside. Can we not be surprised when that happens for once. Put some of the profits in a well managed endowment and fund some real economic development projects.
No big whoop right? Just a couple of modest suggestions that the legislature should have no problem putting into place.
How about this? Any place that wants to do sports betting has to prove that they are carbon-neutral. That will either keep McGlyn out of it, or we will all be better off. It might even spur an increase in the size of the windfarm.
I am totally with you on this Jason.
It would take a windfarm the size of Texas to make a NASCAR track carbon-neutral.
I love it!
Jason, Delaware would have to amend it’s constitution as what we call slots is actually video lottery terminals, as gambling is still against the state’s constitution.
“Table Game Lottery” then.
It is easier to just enter into the same kind of fraud that we have with slots than amend the constitution.
Agreed on all three counts.
I can not understand why you insist on making Denis McGlyn more (much more) than he is…..Dover Downs (track, mall, and eateries) are owned by the Mrs. John Rollins (Michelle)family.
Further more, all I hear about is that gaming (as it is charmingly called) is way down right now…..Trump Casino stock trading at 25 cents a share.
Jason you may not like it and I certainly do not like it soooooooo keep it out of Wilmington. Even if Baker and DiPinto have made it their lives work: We do not need the seedy (witness AC), housing forclosures replaced with hock shops, family strife and suffering, the low brow customer base (the ones w/real money are in Monte Carlo), the drugs, prostitutes, and other petty (and not so petty) crime that comes with gambling.
BTY it is not ‘fine’ and/or ‘whatever’ this is serious. If you are opposed I plead with you and others to keep up the opposition.
Please read the federal law and exemption granted to Delaware. Your comments show you do not understand the gaming proposal.
Also, your three demands are pretty meaningless. You forgot to mention holding aside a small part of revenues for problem gamblers. Where is your liberal compassion?
Let me adopt the liberal notion towards abortion to gambling. If you are against it, don’t have one. In other words, if you don’t approve don’t participate.
Most of the money will probably be welfare money…. basically moving from one agency to another.
Even if Baker and DiPinto have made it their lives work:
Baker and DiPinto are actively lobbying and planning for gambling in Wilmington. I can’t entirely tell from the way you’ve written this which side you think they are on, but these two are not opposed to gambling in the city. Baker specifically mentioned this as part of his goals for the city at the last swearing in.
If they do add sports betting, then expanding the franchise seems to make some sense. Take the funds that are raised and start building (or rebuilding) a Rainy Day Fund, so that the economic cycles aren’t quite as devastating.
But if Wilmington gets a betting parlor, they really need to build one as part of a hotel/conference package — a midsize area able to host conferences and meetings right off of 95 would be a good thing here and would have longer term (and broader utility) than a stand-alone operation.
Please read the federal law and exemption granted to Delaware. Your comments show you do not understand the gaming proposal.
Your comments show that you are an idiot if you don’t understand that Maryland PA and NJ could make swiss cheese out of our imaginary sports betting monopoly.
Susan Regis Collins,
Good point about Rollins. McGylnn is the one who is always on the financial news.
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