THEFEDERALIST (Luke Miller) - Online Sports Gambling Companies Are Buying State Elections
'Now it's just out of control, I've never seen a state house race in Kansas with $150,000 dropped into it, but basically anyone that they thought they would be able to sway their vote got a lot of money.'
AI:Online sports gambling corporations are flooding state-level political races with massive amounts of dark money to influence election outcomes. In Kansas, the influx of cash has become unprecedented, with individual house races seeing hundreds of thousands of dollars poured in to sway key votes. This aggressive spending spree by gambling interests demonstrates a coordinated effort to buy legislative influence and shape state policy through targeted campaign contributions.Open