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Jason Leimer's avatar

The federal legislation proposed by tonko is not surprising to me as the industry which I agree has done a lot of stupid crap that they’ve repeated from the uk deceptive promos, limiting or banning of winners which is another discussion and the pieces that 60 minutes and others which some are yes hit pieces like the ohtani scandal which has nothing to do with the legal industry. They have done on the industry have begun to I think start to get them to think it’s a bad thing which is a shame but the industry does need to take responsibility for some of their dumb mistakes that have caused people like tonko to call for federal legislation.

Now I agree this probably doesn’t go anywhere being a election year plus you’ll see the aga lobby against it and I’m sure Dina Titus in my state of Nevada who slammed the grit act and is standing up for the industry here won’t go along with certain pieces in the legislation he proposed. The legal industry’s favor by the general public is I think slowly turning and they do need to somehow get it together as they continue to dig a hole that they might not get out of.

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Dustin Gouker's avatar

If they immediately adopted some measure of self regulation that everyone signed on to, that would mitigate some of it, I think. Agree that the public is becoming aware of a lot of this and doesn't love what it's seeing.

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Jason Leimer's avatar

I think so to but what is the template and would every one agree? Because right now the industry has to come together with self regulations that are stiff but fair as the feds at this rate will do something worse if they continue this path of stupidity thus you kill the industry or put it on a deathbed bringing back full on play offshore by legal customers. When you got rece Davis making really stupid comments which draws the ire of a lot of regulators eg Ohio and Massachusetts you got major problems

. As someone that supported paspa being repealed even though I live in Nevada, I don’t like what I’m seeing from the industry that again is repeating the same mistakes in England and Australia plus many other countries that are looking or have done stiffer regulations of the industry because they couldn’t police themselves plus here in America we got way too many immature bettors who threaten coaches and athletes because their bet lost and they don’t know self policing. They need to figure these issues quick otherwise this might sound very doomsadyish but I think the industry doesn’t make it out in tact and no I’m not trying to sound like Paul Tonko just to get a quote but when you got a mess like this you need to regroup to get it together.

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