Another gambling bill has faltered and failed in the Alabama Legislature.
While I’m not completely convinced that gambling is a dead issue for the 2025 legislative session – we’ve seen the issue rise, zombie-like, from the grave many times before, and with far less than a month to go – the first few shovels of dirt have definitely landed on the coffin. And that, of course, leads us to the inevitable next step in the annual gambling-got-oh-so-close process.
The blame game.
It’s the time when those who wanted our lawmakers to finally pass meaningful legislation that taxes and regulates gaming, putting Alabama on a level playing field with all of the states around us and shutting down the ridiculous amount of illegal gaming happening all over the state, try to figure out who they want to blame for it all falling apart one more year.
