After failing to pass Prop 27 by a wide margin, industry insiders say operators must take a vastly different approach with tribes if they want to legalize online CA sports betting.
Prop 27 received just 18% of the vote, meaning the earliest the state could legalize CA sports betting would be 2024. However, given the increasingly frosty relationship between the sides, a path to legalization two years from now remains murky at best.
“I am not about looking in the past, but in order to stop repeating that behavior, we as an industry have to sit down as co-equals with the tribes, and work out a solution,” lawyer and lobbyist Bill Pascrell III told LSR at the NCLGS conference in Las Vegas.
