Daniel Little said he wasn’t trying to send some message to the Sports Betting Alliance or make a comment on the very long-view approach of the 109 tribes that control gambling in California.
The chief intergovernmental affairs officer of the Yuhaaviatam of San Manuel Nation was simply offering an opinion, he said, based on 25-30 internal polls conducted by the owners of a sprawling casino in Highland, California.
Californians, he said, may not want legal sports betting as much as the gambling industry hopes.
“When we go out to the voters and poll them, there’s just not a lot of desire,” he said Thursday at the National Council of Legislators from Gaming States (NCLGS) winter conference.
