FanDuel President Christian Genetski has been turning up in the most unusual places this month.
Last week, he appeared in his home state of Alabama in a hearing room in Montgomery, lobbying for a legal sports betting bill there. And Wednesday, he walked into an intimate meeting room filled with some of the most powerful tribal leaders on the West Coast at the Western Indian Gaming Conference at the Pechanga Casino Resort in suburban Los Angeles.
What could have been an incredibly awkward hour — Geneteski was there essentially giving a mea culpa to the tribes — was instead informative, convivial, and hopeful.
“I’ll address the elephant in the room, the gentlemen next to me,” California Nations Indian Gaming Association chair James Siva said as he nodded at Genetski. “As soon it was announced, there were a lot of questions. As much as I hammered them during the initiative fights, the way we left it was always that we do have to have find a path.”