Stacey Abrams Launches College Football-Themed Campaign Ads In Call To Legalize Sports Betting
It’s football season and in honor of the occasion, Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams is launching a new round of Georgia Bulldog-themed campaign ads promoting her home state college team and calls to legalize sports betting.
The Democrat rolled out a round of 15 and 30-second ads targeting voters who use online betting sites linked to UGA’s top-ranked team.
According to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, the spots are part of an effort to legalize casino gambling and sports betting in Georgia, which will then help expand the HOPE scholarship and finance a needs-based higher education program.
“While Georgians still place bets, Kemp is forcing them out of state to do it, taking the tax dollars with them,” a narrator in the ads says. “That means even when Georgia wins the bet, states like Tennessee get the tax money.”
Since a 2018 Supreme Court ruling allowing states to legalize sports betting, a handful of prominent state lawmakers have tried to bring it to Georgia in hopes of generating more revenue without raising taxes. That said, legislation to authorize online sports wagering has gone nowhere in the state amid disagreements over whether betting on college sports should be allowed and more.
Watch one of Stacey Abrams new spots below.