Rick Perry wants Texas to legalize online sports betting

Rick Perry wants Texas to legalize online sports betting. He served as Governor of Texas from 2000-2015 and as the U.S. Secretary of Energy from 2017-2019. The Sports Betting Alliance estimates that millions of dollars are placed illegally through unregulated, offshore betting operators each year.

Rudy Koski has been governor, secretary of energy and now a spokesperson. Rudy Kosky thinks it's time for Texas to legalize online sports betting.

Rick Perry is promoting betting on sports. He believes it's time to regulate it. The Supreme Court ruled that it can't be banned. 35, 36 other states already do it, and Rick Perry believes the time is right.

Perry wants to keep sports betting in the state of Texas. There were $8.7 billion worth of bets last year in Texas, so sports gambling is here to stay.

Koski explains to him what sports betting is and what it is not.

Perry is launching a mobile sports betting website. He has the support of the professional sports teams. He's known the owners of our sports. They are supportive of this. It's not casino gambling.

Perry is not for expansion of gambling. He wants it to be regulated and Texans to have their information secure.

Rick Perry wants Texas to legalize online sports betting. Koski questions Perry's relationship with conservative evangelical group that's against gambling.

Rick Perry wants Texas to legalize online sports betting. He's not for expansion of gambling. Sports betting alliance is focused on mobile sports gambling, period.

Rick Perry wants Texas to legalize online sports betting. Perry was against the expansion of gambling. He was not a supporter of the lottery. He thinks it's important to make sure it is regulated and safe.

Rick Perry wants Texas to legalize online sports betting. Koski questions how much he's being paid for it.

Perry hopes to get a fair deal after he gets out of public office.

Jerry Jones and Mark Cuban are going to meet with Koski at the State Capitol in Austin to push their alliance.

Rick Perry wants Texas to legalize online sports betting. Perry will be doing some educational processes with the people of Texas.

Perry signed on to the bill because he believes it's being put together with a constitutional amendment. Perry got elected statewide six times. He trusts the people of the state to elect him or her.

Rick Perry wants Texas to legalize online sports betting. He wants legislators to vote on it in the fall.

Perry thinks Texans are biased in favor of mobile sports betting. He thinks they will vote overwhelmingly in favour of it.

Rick Perry wants Texas to legalize online sports betting. Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick is most likely going to be the gatekeeper to this kind of resolution.

Rick Perry wants Texas to legalize online sports betting. The lieutenant governor is the gatekeeper of a lot of different things. He respects the concept of the voters having the say here.

Rick Perry wants Texas to legalize online sports betting.

Perry believes that the members of the legislature are aware of casino gambling and sports betting are different issues.

Rick Perry wants Texas to legalize online sports betting. Koski was recently the grand marshal of the Christmas parade at Round Top.

Perry was governor. He was on the National Security Council dealing with nuclear weapons. Perry was also the head of the agency that has the national labs. He considers being governor the best job in the world. It was fun being the grand marshal. The most interesting job he ever had was as the secretary of energy.

Brittney Griner is coming home. Perry wishes they could have gotten the Marine held by the Russians out as well. He doesn't know the details of the case. He will leave that to the diplomats. Koski hopes other people will recognize that travelling around the world is serious business.

Rick Perry wants Texas to legalize online sports betting. Koski called him cancer once.

Rick Perry wants Texas to legalize online sports betting. Perry ran statewide six times. He ran on his record and made the pitch to the people. Donald Trump is being mentioned as a potential Republican nominee.

Rick Perry wants Texas to legalize online sports betting. Koski wonders if Perry will run for office again.

Rick Perry wants Texas to legalize online sports betting. Perry has 40 years of public service, including time as a pilot in the U.S. Air Force.

Rick Perry wants Texas to legalize online sports betting. Koski asks Perry about the border crisis. Perry is angry that the president doesn't want to go to the Texas border. He has been fighting the issue since 2005. He is frustrated that Henry Cuellar, a Democrat, is speaking out against the situation.

Koski is a Reagan Republican. Koski believes the red wave didn't happen in the previous election.

Rick Perry wants Texas to legalize online sports betting. Perry thinks the Republican Party needs to focus on getting the conservative vote out and to the polls. He thinks Texas does a good job with that. Dan Patrick's efforts in the rural part of the state made a difference.

Rick Perry wants Texas to legalize online sports betting. Koski wants to know if he should earmark the money that could be made from it.

Rick Perry wants Texas to legalize online sports betting. Perry doesn't believe in earmarks. He prefers to earmark money in the general revenue fund and then go through the process of appropriations.