Gov. Christie Endorses Sports Betting Referendum

Gov. Chris Christie says he'll vote in favor of letting New Jersey residents bet legally on sporting events.

At an appearance in Jersey City on Wednesday, the governor said he supports a referendum on next week's ballot asking voters whether they want to make sports betting legal, if a federal ban on it is ever lifted.

Christie says it's naJive to think illicit betting isn't going on. He related the tale of a fan who came up to him at a New York Giants game, happy that Big Blue won, but sad that they didn't score enough to make his two-team parlay bet a winner.

The governor says it's time to get sports betting out from the shadows and make it legal.