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Minnesota Lawmaker Cautiously Optimistic About Sports Betting Legalization

Robert Mann by Robert Mann
October 29, 2018
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Minnesota Sports Betting Draft Bill Appears In State Legislature, Would Establish Minnesota Sports Wagering Commission

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Sports wagering for Minnesotans should be on the way, but won’t happen unless local residents get behind the effort to make it happen, according to State Representative Pat Garafolo (R), the seven-term legislator and avid sports bettor who’s currently leading efforts to get a bill before the state legislature when it reconvenes in January.

However, as he told the locally based Great Time Podcast with John Kriesel, just because something is popular doesn’t mean it’s going to happen. Garafolo said he’s optimistic that the various gaming interests in the state —Β  tribal gaming, charitable gaming and others — will reach common ground on the issue.

β€œWe need flexible legislation that works for everyone,” saidΒ Garafolo, who represents District 58B, which includes portions of the southeastern Twin Cities metropolitan area in Dakota and Goodhue counties.Β β€œWe have to have a low-tax, low-fee environment. We just can’t go in and tax the snot out of this industry. The illegal sports betting market is very robust, so we have to have the right kind of regulations to compete with that.”

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Garafolo added: β€œThere’s money to be made, but it’s not like slot machines. Margins are small, in the neighborhood of five percent. It’s a high-volume industry, but a low-margin industry.”

Episode 2 of the Great Time Podcast is now available on the iHeart Radio app. My guest today was @PatGarofalo who (among other things) discussed how he will get sports betting legalized in Minnesota. https://t.co/ED57RLXV92 pic.twitter.com/jHZoJhcsNu

— John Kriesel (@johnkriesel) October 26, 2018

Garafolo, an avid sports fan, says he wants Minnesotans to be able to make sports bets on mobile devices throughout the state, but opposes an online option for other casino games, as has become popular in New Jersey. He says sports wagering kiosks in taverns is a possibility, but that’s just one of a seemingly infinite number of sub-issues (including betting on local college teams) that needs to be resolved with gambling stakeholders in the state.

He said he’s concerned that if a consensus can’t be reached on what is a bipartisan issue, sports wagering legislation won’t go anywhere. Garafolo is urging fellow lawmakers to get a law and accompanying regulations ready as early as possible in 2019, to be up and running for the next football season.

β€œWe have to make that happen,” he added.

I got this…. https://t.co/QcSFztUMFx

— Representative Pat Garofalo (@PatGarofalo) January 15, 2018

Minnesota Public Radio reports that since the start of June, the MLB, NBA, NFL and the PGA Tour have allΒ registered new lobbyists in the state with the expectation they will intensity their focus on sports betting as it comes under discussion next year.

In 2018, a 14-page draft bill circulated in the state legislature that would establish a Minnesota Sports Wagering Commission, but the bill was not formally introduced.

Minnesota is currently home to 40 tribal gambling operations. Other legalΒ gamblingΒ activities inΒ Minnesota include licensed charitableΒ gambling, including pull-tabs, paddlewheels, tipboards, bingo and raffles. The state also has a government-run lottery, poker and pari-mutuelΒ bettingΒ on horse races. Charitable gambling sales are especially robust in Minnesota, and pegged at more than $2 billion annually.

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Sports Handle contributor Robert Mann has a Northwestern journalism degree and is a former reporter for the Chicago Tribune and National Enquirer. He has worked in news management for CNN and several TV stations and is a 31-year resident of Las Vegas.

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