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csziggy

(34,136 posts) Thu Nov 11, 2021, 08:48 PM Nov 2021

Is everyone else getting spammed by the sports betting ads to "help education," too? [View all]

I'm old enough that I remember the original ads for the Florida Lottery and how with the revenue from that education in Florida would be fully funded with no taxes needed. These new ads sound like a rehash of that tired, old, failed argument. If the Florida Lottery provided the level of money to education that had been promised, why would we need another gambling scam to "win" for Florida education now?

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Is everyone else getting spammed by the sports betting ads to "help education," too? [View all] csziggy Nov 2021 OP

Arizona here - getting spammed on Twitter and network TV AZSkiffyGeek Nov 2021 #1

These ads are apparently trying to get sports betting made legal in Floirda csziggy Nov 2021 #2

In AZ I think it was just legalized nt AZSkiffyGeek Nov 2021 #3

Too many sports betting ads here in Indiana on cable. LiberalFighter Nov 2021 #4

I have seen many ads on TV about this Dreampuff Nov 2021 #5

Isn't this part of the Seminole Tribes' attempt onethatcares Nov 2021 #6

I haven't read up on it but I would bet the Seminoles are against it csziggy Nov 2021 #7

don't leave out the change to OSHA onethatcares Nov 2021 #8

Yeah, I just think of how well ducking federal regulations for the power grid worked in Texas csziggy Nov 2021 #9

my friend, I agree with you onethatcares Nov 2021 #10

Oh - that's what I had in the back of my mind - that compact with the Seminoles! csziggy Nov 2021 #11