Warhorse Casino is working in concert with at least three major gambling-app companies to sell Nebraskans on two separate but complementary ballot drives to put sportsbook gambling in the palm of the hand, framing the question as one of financing property tax relief and curbing illegal gambling efforts, which they say, deny state tax collectors their cut.
In a phone call with The Plains Sentinel, Warhorse director of government affairs Lynne McNally said her organization was a “strong supporter” of efforts by Tax Relief Nebraska, a Ballot Question Committee registered with the state to promote twin ballot-question petition drives to permit sportsbook wagering via internet app if done in partnership with a brick-and-mortar casino in the state.
The first ballot initiative would amend the state constitution to permit state laws allowing online sports wagering, while the second would enact the enabling statute to allow online sports wagers “through an authorized gaming operator or its contracted platform provider,” according to state campaign finance records.
McNally said that while “[o]ur partners are contributing financially to the effort,” Warhorse is taking a role as “ambassadors” for the effort. McNally confirmed that Warhorse already has a partnership lined up for online sportsbook gambling should the ballot question campaigns succeed.
…”The group behind these initiatives can’t talk about how online sports betting would improve our state, because it doesn’t. They can only talk about revenue, but never where it’s going to come from, who it’s going to hurt, or who walks away with the biggest piece of the pie,” Grasz said, adding that it’s taxpayers, not sports betting companies that will end up “pay[ing] for the harm they cause families or for the money they take out of a state’s economy.
“The house always wins, and for the house to win, it’s the people of Nebraska who have to lose,” Grasz said. Read more »
Ken Shepherd | “Capital Cash: Warhorse Teams Up with Out-of-State Gambling Apps to Fuel Online Sports Betting Push” | April 6, 2026
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Oh I remember how they told us that voting in a lottery would alleviate our public education spending! They obviously lied then and, well, they do what they’re good at. Anyone with a brain realized that the Lottery would do no such thing and neither will these ballot measures. Nebraskans are incredibly liberal and licentious (I am one, it’s just the truth) so it will pass easily.