FanDuel, DraftKings Spend $2.2 Million to Defeat Alabama Anti-Gambling Candidate

1 articles · Updated · Bloomberg · May 18

$2.2 million in ads from a group backed by FanDuel and DraftKings targeted Alabama Republican state senate candidate Rusty Glover, a gambling opponent, in a suburban Mobile district.
AdImpact said the spending aimed to defeat Glover in a district with fewer than 150,000 residents, an unusually large outlay for a local legislative race.
The campaign went beyond streaming ads, with the same group sending more than a dozen anti-Glover mailers and driving a wave of phone calls attacking him as a greedy "career politician."
The race shows how sports betting companies are deploying national-scale money and tactics to shape state elections where gambling policy can be decided.

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