California Tribal Business Alliance: YOUR Computer Will Be A Gaming Device

CTBA President Leslie Lohse opposes internet gaming unless California Indian Tribes get a say in what goes on in legislation, including identifying YOUR computer as a gaming device.   Because of donations to his campaign, they EXPECT incoming governor Jerry Brown to be compliant to their wishes.

Internet gaming should not be held captive to the whims of tribal nations that have harmed their own people.   Of the over 100 California Indian Nations, not all have gaming and certainly not all benefit the way citizens of CA intended through their passage of Prop. 1A and Prop 5.

It's time to let the tribal gaming compacts expire and legalize gaming in California where we can regulate it, and have it in place in the populous areas of Los Angeles and Orange Counties.     Tribes have received a head start on gaming and some have taken their tribes and built their infrastructures.    Other tribes such as Pechanga, Redding and Picayune have harmed so many of their membership, that our new governor Jerry Brown can't SERIOUSLY care what they think.

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Additionally, we are working on a story about our Senator Dianne Feinstein's work to keep some tribes from getting casinos to help their tribe. Is she supported by the big gaming tribes, who think nothing of letting other tribes suffer?

Feinstein Proposal to Limit Off Reservation Casinos Coming in Lame Duck Session?

Indian gaming tribes are readying for a possible lame duck lobbying battle amidst indications that the senior U.S. Senator from California is working on an amendment to curtail the ability of tribes to establish off-reservation casinos.
Sen. Dianne Feinstein is working on a proposal to limit the ability of tribes to establish off-reservation casinos, and may even try to attach the measure to an omnibus appropriations bill in next month’s lame duck session of Congress, sources have confirmed.

A move by Feinstein would mark an escalation in the battle over an issue that first saw the Bush administration issue some regulatory restrictions on the ability of tribes to establish off reservation facilities, and then became more complicated still through a February 2009 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that raised further legal questions for some tribes.

Interior Department officials already have vetted language in Feinstein’s proposal and sent it back to her, but she hasn’t made a final decision about when she will introduce it, according to a Senate source.

“She could stick it onto the appropriations bill, which may be the only piece of legislation Congress passes during the lame duck,” said Joe Valandra, a tribal gaming lobbyist and former chief of staff of the National Indian Gaming Commission.

Sources said Feinstein’s proposal, should it pass, would effectively amend the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act of 1988 by prohibiting tribes from having newly acquired land taken into trust for gaming purposes.

Feinstein, a Democratic member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, has been one of the most prominent opponents of off-reservation gambling in Congress.   Maybe it's time for Californians to allow gaming throughout the state.

Opposition Letter to S 2956 Which Gives Power of Water Rights for Reservation Alottees that Pechanga has Terminated From The Tribe.

How fair do you think Pechanga will be with $29 MILLION dollars?

Please send a letter and fax to the addresses in the letter.

Opposition Letter to S 2956