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Maine's Summer Decision on Legal Online Casino Gaming
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6/30/2025
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some states don't feel like online casino gaming should be legal and others do seems like maine is
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one of those states that's making a big decision this summer yeah maine i think yeah when we last
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talked or when you know i came on last week while you were gone but when we last talked
00:15
we didn't really know where this was going you know online casino as a nationwide you know
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industry we figured might have a similar wave to sports betting back in 2020 2021 you know
00:29
sports betting took over pretty easily passed a lot of states and we thought okay well the next
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natural evolution is online casino that has not been the case we've seen lots of headwinds even
00:39
against the online sports betting industry which has caused legislators to kind of balk at it and
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say you know what maybe let's take a longer look at this and see if it really makes sense and if
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that much revenue to the state really does you know positively contribute to the state even with the
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negatives that might come with it well in maine earlier this year they introduced it got a little
00:58
discussion not a ton and then it was tabled so we figured like other states that had started
01:03
talking about it this year we would you know have to wait future years uh for further discussion but
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you know about a month ago they picked up uh discussions pretty heavily the house passed it
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we thought maybe the senate would not go ahead and pass it because it was pretty um split there but
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they went ahead and said okay if you concur we'll throw it on the appropriations table and i think that's
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where i last chatted with you about it was the appropriations table is this table that if anything
01:29
has a fiscal note if it affects the you know budget of the state it has to pass this 13 member of
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legislators table the appropriations table now according to local media that you know carefully
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watches everything that happens on this table only about 10 of bills get through so again it seemed like
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a major hurdle that wouldn't happen uh but as it turns out there were about 300 bills that made it
01:53
to this table and about 113 i think it was made it off including the online casino bill so now it goes to
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governor janet mills whose administration uh testified against online casino throughout this process
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so you have to wonder is that indicative of her going to veto this bill which of course would send it
02:14
back and it doesn't seem like there's support to override it plus they're adjourned for the session
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so it very unlikely that would happen so you'd have to redo this whole process again to get it to mills
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again indications in the past if you know she's not very friendly to gambling even though she was at
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the head of the state uh when online sports betting was passed but it's not looking great for this
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online casino bill which i guess i should break down real quick it legalizes online casino through the
02:42
four tribal nations in the state which is just like online sports betting three of those tribes
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four sports betting partnered with caesars one other one partnered with drafting so it wouldn't
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be a great big vibrant market with four operators and the like would probably be against caesar and
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draft kings you have to imagine they'd stick with those same operators but again it's in governor
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mills's desk or on it the desk i suppose and we're waiting to see if she signs it but
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indications point to a veto but again anything can happen
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