After a tedious all-day meeting that stretched the limits of commissioners’ and staff’s patience, the Gaming Commission failed to find resolution Thursday on any potential timeline for it to roll out legal sports betting. Instead, the commission recessed after 6 p.m. Thursday with a plan to try again on Friday in a meeting being called on an emergency basis.
“I am very concerned about the rate of our decision-making. I am very concerned about it,” Chairwoman Cathy Judd-Stein said as the eight-plus hour meeting neared its anticlimactic end. “I am concerned about our ability to move forward.”
The whole day was marked by disagreements, debates and a touch of dysfunction, but what really tripped the commission up was the question of when legal betting might begin and how.
