Mississippi House Speaker Jason White did not hold back when criticizing his legislative counterparts for neglecting to pass a bill that would legalize mobile sports betting.
“It looks like again this year, the Senate is going to stand in the way of mobile sports [betting]. Folks will continue to illegally gamble and bet on sports online,” White said on Thursday.
“That money will go elsewhere or into illegal dealers’ pockets instead of through the normal channels where our gaming officials could regulate it, and we would at least see the benefit of our operators making that money and Mississippians making it versus it hitting on the illegal market.”
