“The emergence of a number of international gambling giants, with the resources to bring time-consuming and expensive legal challenges to regulators across multiple jurisdictions, shows just how much internationalization could disrupt our work.”
—Tim Miller, executive director of the U.K. Gambling Commission, talking about the stress regulators face in the growing global gambling environment.
“There is chatter here locally in Macau that this is part of a long play to reduce the value of the shares and dampen speculative trading of casino stock.”
—Ben Lee, gaming analyst, on upheaval in Macau due to the threat of increased oversight by the Beijing government
“This is major league, it’s prime time. This is what we should be doing in New York.”
—Joe Addabbo, New York senator, on a push to bring mobile sports bets more quickly to the Empire State
“After more than a year of incredible loss, our industry has never looked more united.”
—Roger Dow, president and CEO, U.S. Travel Association, which brought its international IPW trade show to Las Vegas last week
“Like most Bears fans, we want the organization to focus on putting a winning team on the field, beating the Packers finally, and being relevant past October. Everything else is noise.”
—Lori Lightfoot, Chicago mayor, on talk that the Chicago Bears will relocate
“We’re aware of how the battle will be. It’s important we don’t get excited. We’d be fools not to know the situation. We’re prepared.”
— Darin Beltran, chairman, California’s Koi Nation, on opposition to its plan to build a casino resort in Northern California near Shiloh Regional Park
“This is not the Sunset Strip. I happen to believe we have enough casinos.”
—Jared Huffman, California congressman, on the Koi Nation’s plan to build a $600 million casino between Windsor and Santa Rosa
