{"id":59257,"date":"2025-01-31T05:03:22","date_gmt":"2025-01-31T05:03:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/alabama\/want-to-vote-on-gambling-lottery-this-is-your-year\/"},"modified":"2025-01-31T05:03:22","modified_gmt":"2025-01-31T05:03:22","slug":"want-to-vote-on-gambling-lottery-this-is-your-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=59257","title":{"rendered":"Want to vote on gambling, lottery? This is your year"},"content":{"rendered":"


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If you want to vote on gambling and a lottery, this is your chance.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

If you\u2019re tired of being jerked around by disingenuous lawmakers who always make it seem as if passing gambling legislation is just fingertip out of reach, this is your year. If you\u2019re tired of watching Alabama dollars go towards sending other states\u2019 kids to college, fixing other states\u2019 roads, keeping other states\u2019 hospitals open and paying for other states\u2019 food taxes, this is your time to shine.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Because this is the year before an election year.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Later this year, you\u2019re going to start seeing the first of what will be seemingly endless campaign announcements and ads. You\u2019re going to start to hear the stories of who\u2019s going to save Alabama and serve Donald Trump and cut your taxes and your costs while giving you a better job and mowing your lawn.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

You\u2019re going to start to hear the desperation from a bunch of people you wouldn\u2019t hire to pressure wash your driveway but who really, really need your vote to keep them in these cushy jobs where they do the stuff major donors want 90 percent of the time.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

You\u2019ve got \u2018em right where you want \u2018em.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Because this is the year you \u2013 the majority of voters \u2013 can actually force the people you\u2019ve elected to office to do things you want done. Because nothing scares an incumbent politician more than a bunch of voters motivated to back the candidate who supports their cause.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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And in this over-gerrymandered state, it\u2019s insanely easy for such a movement to take shape.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Look at the voter turnout numbers for state house races in midterm elections. They\u2019re abysmal. In some cases, less than 30 percent of the eligible voters in a district are casting ballots. We\u2019re talking about a few thousand people out of 40,000 potential voters deciding these races.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

If an issue catches fire and motivates a decent number of those disenchanted voters \u2026 that\u2019s a big problem.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Gambling should be that issue.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Don\u2019t scoff at this. Don\u2019t start thinking about it in terms of shiny lights and jackpots and all-night parties. Because it\u2019s much, much more than that.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Take the comprehensive gambling bill that passed the House last session. That bill would have given Alabama citizens the opportunity to vote and authorize up to seven casino licenses, sports wagering, a compact with the Poarch Band of Creek Indians, a statewide lottery and a gambling commission to oversee it all and shut down these ridiculous gas station casinos we currently have all over the place.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

It would have generated somewhere in the neighborhood of a billion dollars per year in tax revenue.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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But it was more than that.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

It was also 12,000 to 15,000 permanent jobs. It was an economic impact on Alabama\u2019s tourism industry well into the tens of billions of dollars annually.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

It was an expansion of health care services in Alabama\u2019s rural communities, potentially saving hospitals that are right now operating at or near a loss. It was a scholarship program that would have sent underprivileged kids to college. It was an infrastructure package that would have fixed our decrepit roads and faltering bridges. It was a boost to public school funding, paying for things such as enhanced security and teacher supplies.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

All for doing nothing more than simply better organizing and properly taxing things we currently have in this state.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I mean, come on \u2013 we all know the reality here. There are casinos all over this state right now. Most of them are really crappy casinos located alongside a laundromat (or in at least one case, in one). We\u2019ve got sports betting literally everywhere, since anyone who wants to place a bet can do so on a phone with an off-shore sportsbook. Millions of Alabama residents venture into Florida, Georgia and Tennessee to buy lottery tickets every year.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

We know all of this is true. We could reap a billion dollars per year and pay for all of those things above, create all of those jobs and do all of that work by simply correcting what we all know should be corrected.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Now, tell me another issue out there that\u2019s anywhere close to as impactful. You can\u2019t do it.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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But if you want it to get fixed finally, it\u2019s going to be up to you. We should all also know by now that these folks in the legislature aren\u2019t going to do it on their own. They\u2019re making too much money keeping this fight going, playing one side against the other, pretending that every other year is the year that they finally do right.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

If it\u2019s something you care about, you\u2019re going to have to call them. You\u2019re going to have to write them. You\u2019re going to have to let it be known that there will be consequences for not getting this done.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

To reach your local representative or senator, you can find their contact information at the legislature\u2019s official website here: http:\/\/www.legislature.state.al.us<\/a><\/em><\/div>\n
To find out who your lawmakers are, use this interactive map from the Alabama Secretary of State\u2019s website: https:\/\/www.sos.alabama.gov\/alabama-votes\/elected-official-map<\/a><\/em><\/div>\n

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