Labor Organizations and Tribes Urge California Legislature to Approve Compacts for Off-Reservation Casino
As reported in this press release from early January, the Los Coyotes Band of Cahuilla and Cupeno Indians and the Big Lagoon Rancheria are pushing for state legislative approval of the Barstow compacts, negotiated with Gov. Schwarzenegger in 2005, with support from the Teamsters, Hotel and Restaurant Employees Union, the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees, and the California State Building and Construction Trades. Environmental organizations also have voiced support for the compacts, including the Sierra Club and the Natural Resources Defense Council. Other tribes with casinos in the area have been opposed to the compacts.
For more on tribal attempts to find common cause with organized labor and labor-backed Democrats in California, see this January 18 article in the San Diego Union-Tribune.
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Barstow: SUPPORT FOR INDIAN GAMING COMPACTS REMAINS STALLED!"
THE HEADLINE WAS MISPRINTED ... It's Support for Indian Gaming Compacts Remains STALLED!!!
The highly unorthodox Compacts (gaming agreements) for Big Lagoon Rancheria and Los Coyotes Band of Indians have failed to win endorsements from any additional members of the California Legislature. In the last year and a half they recruited six out of 120 legislators to support their scheme and now that's down to five.
The agreements have been stalled for more than a year. The Senator who authored legislation to ratify the agreements in 2006 is no longer in office due to term limits and the team calling the shots from Detroit -- the people who are bankrolling this deal -- is desperate to find a new author!
Deadlines are looming this coming Friday ... an author must be found soon if the agreements are to stay alive.
THE BARSTOW CASINO AGREEMENTS HAVE STALLED
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