Missouri Petition Continues Push for Betting Legalization

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00:00 (upbeat music)

00:02 - Okay, so let's talk a little bit

00:05 about this petition going on in Missouri.

00:07 Very interesting, professional sports teams

00:09 delivering 340,000 voter signatures.

00:14 And look, there's just a lot of push

00:16 to get sports betting done in Missouri,

00:18 but unfortunately there's just a few people

00:21 that are really not interested in making this happen.

00:24 I don't know, do petitions like this,

00:26 what do they really mean in the end, Pat?

00:28 I think that's really the bottom line.

00:29 Does that get legislators to take a deeper look?

00:32 Does it actually result in things going on the ballot?

00:35 Does it annoy legislatures?

00:36 How does this work?

00:38 - Yeah, so this is a petition drive

00:41 pushed by the professional sports organizations in Missouri.

00:45 They've been fed up with the efforts by the legislator

00:48 to get sports betting across the line and legalize it.

00:52 They've been behind the proposal in the legislator

00:56 for the past three years.

00:58 It's gotten stuck and beaten to death

01:02 multiple times in Missouri.

01:05 And so they put this together last summer,

01:09 started in earnest in January

01:11 to get all the signatures they needed.

01:13 They need 140,000 around there, verified signatures,

01:18 and it has to be representative

01:20 of the districts across the state and everything.

01:22 So there's a few more things that need to be checked

01:26 and ensured that it meets all the boxes.

01:30 But with a 340,000, that's well over the goal

01:35 they initially set out to do.

01:36 They turned it in ahead of the deadline.

01:39 So it looks like they're pretty sure they've got it.

01:41 Three mascots turned it in at the secretary of state,

01:43 nice photo op there.

01:45 And what it does, assuming everything's all verified,

01:49 it'll put it on November ballot for Missourians

01:52 to go and say, yeah, we want sports betting.

01:55 They were hoping, again, they were pushing it

01:57 the past three sessions to get through the legislative way,

02:01 but because that failed, they're trying this end around.

02:05 So if Missourians say, yeah, we want it,

02:07 which polls kind of suggest they do want it,

02:09 60% or more of Missouri voters say they want sports betting

02:15 to benefit education, which is what this proposal does,

02:19 then yeah, it'll be probably in action next year

02:24 if all goes according to the plan.

02:26 So again, plenty of things to kind of still sort out.

02:30 First of all, needs to get all those boxes checked

02:33 to make sure it's on the ballot,

02:34 then the voters have to approve it.

02:35 But yeah, I mean, this is progress in Missouri, really,

02:40 when you look at everything that we've talked about

02:43 the past two years, three years,

02:45 I don't even know how long we've been talking about it

02:46 on the show now.

02:47 - Yeah, a while.

02:48 - But Missouri might be the next state to legalize

02:52 just because of this petition.

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02:57 (bells chiming)

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