{"id":146323,"date":"2025-04-30T20:54:40","date_gmt":"2025-04-30T20:54:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=146323"},"modified":"2025-04-30T20:54:41","modified_gmt":"2025-04-30T20:54:41","slug":"ms-house-speaker-jason-white-staff-treated-to-super-bowl-by-gambling-giant-pushing-for-legalized-betting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=146323","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;[MS] House Speaker Jason White, staff treated to Super Bowl by gambling giant pushing for legalized betting&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mississippitoday.org\/2025\/04\/23\/house-speaker-jason-white-staff-treated-to-super-bowl-by-gambling-giant-pushing-for-legalized-betting\/?fbclid=IwY2xjawJ6SWxleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBicmlkETFDNDVXSlhBcGY1Z3VWZzVxAR4K2vYyrdXaiQFRlV-J525nm7NCyhCFPFyMVeDe2SOqCXvRSg6bdj1COxbPLQ_aem__SSnBrW7vL3vuD5WI1n5dA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MS Today<\/a>: &#8220;The sports gambling lobby, as it has done in other states, has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on Mississippi politicians trying to convince them to legalize mobile sports betting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Part of that effort was an unreported trip to the Super Bowl in New Orleans this year for House Speaker Jason White, his staff and a couple of their spouses. The trip was paid for, at least in part, by DraftKings, one of the nation\u2019s highest-grossing gaming companies that has invested heavily in lobbying for legal online betting.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Thanks to a loophole in Mississippi\u2019s lax lobbying laws, there is no public report to date of the expensive weekend in lobbying reports that are supposed to document spending on behalf of state employees. The cheapest tickets to the Super Bowl retailed for nearly $3,000 each. The group attended the game less than a week after White oversaw the House\u2019s approval of legislation to legalize mobile sports betting in Mississippi.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MS Today: &#8220;The sports gambling lobby, as it has done in other states, has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on Mississippi politicians trying to convince them to legalize mobile sports betting. Part of that effort was an unreported trip to the Super Bowl in New Orleans this year for House Speaker Jason White, his&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-146323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsstory"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=146323"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":146324,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146323\/revisions\/146324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=146323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=146323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=146323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}