From the Sun Times:

After three hours of debate May 5 the Delaware House of Representatives voted down a bill that would have brought sports betting to the state’s three casinos.

Gov. Jack Markell was counting on an estimated $55 million in new revenue gained from sports betting and an increase in the state’s share of gambling revenues to help plug the state’s $780 million projected budget shortfall.

The substitute bill for House Bill 100 failed to meet the constitutional three-fifths majority required for passage by just two votes.

Throughout the debate House Republicans echoed gaming industry arguments that held the bill would devastate the state’s racinos and likely force Harrington Raceway and Casino to close within the year.

“The danger of passing this legislation as it’s written right now could very soon kill the goose that laid the golden egg,” said House Minority Leader Richard C. Cathcart, R-Middletown.

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