Doug Jones: “I think we’ve got to have an attitude in this state that is more open and honest about who our neighbors are and where…”

If you put a moratorium and there are people who want to do this, you get everybody to the table, you start talking, you try to figure this out, I really think it could be done in less than a year.

I have watched him go from, ‘We are going to do data centers and all the concerns of the community is bull crap,’ and having all the data centers we can get, to now, basically adopting everything I said except for the moratorium piece of…

It’s (the CHOOSE Act) going to ultimately, if it doesn’t kill public schools, it’s going to just cripple and such that we do the public, and then we are seeing that in the numbers of kids that are in public schools this year.

If we can do that as part of a comprehensive gambling bill, we should do that too.