Schwarzenegger set to approve state's largest Indian casino

[Kadie]

Schwarzenegger set to approve state's largest Indian casino

The Associated Press
Tuesday, August 17, 2004

(08-17) 07:51 PDT SACRAMENTO (AP) --

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is close to signing an agreement with a Northern California Indian tribe that could create one of the world's largest casinos in the heart of the San Francisco Bay Area, two newspapers reported Tuesday.

The compact is expected to be signed Thursday between the Lytton Band of Pomo Indians and the state allowing the tribe to build what could be one of the world's largest casinos on a 9-acre site in San Pablo, located across the Bay from San Francisco and just 15 minutes north of Oakland.

Sources speaking on condition of anonymity told the Los Angeles Times and the Sacramento Bee that in exchange for state permission, the tribe would pay up to 25 percent of its gambling profits to the state -- a far larger share than the amount five other tribes agreed to give up in agreements Schwarzenegger negotiated in June.

Expectations are that if the 259-member tribe opens as many as 5,000 slot machines, it could generate more than $125 million a year for the state.

more...
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2004/08/17/state1051EDT0047.DTL


Huge casino in the cards for Bay Area

By Steve Wiegand -- Bee Staff Writer
Published 2:15 am PDT Tuesday, August 17, 2004

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is poised to sign a compact with a Northern California American Indian tribe that could create one of the world's largest casinos in the heart of the San Francisco Bay Area, sources said Monday.

The casino would be operated by a limited partnership that includes the Maloof family, who own the Sacramento Kings and the Palms Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas, and the Rumsey Band of Wintun Indians, the Yolo County tribe that owns Cache Creek Casino Resort.

The compact, expected to be signed Thursday, would allow the Lytton Band of Pomo Indians to build a mega-casino just off Interstate 80 in San Pablo, a Contra Costa County city of 30,000 about 15 minutes northeast of Oakland.

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http://www.sacbee.com/content/politics/ca/story/10407424p-11327123c.html

[fob]

1. So I assume ahnold will resign right after signing this since he

smeared Gov Davis as a pay-to-play gubaner. Oh that's right, special interests are only those entities that give money to Democrats.

Nevermind.

[joefree1]

2. Hey, we all need a place to gamble

... our one time tax break and the unemployment checks that follow. Come on baby, give me a six, Momma needs a new kidney.

[Democat]

3. Gray Davis would have been recalled for this and the media would attack

The entire California media would have helped the right wing recall Davis over something like this.

Why not just make gambling legal in the state for everyone?

[SoCalDem]

4. There would be no Vegas, if California had not been so determined

If California would have been thinking , those thousands of cars every week would be staying here, instead of spending every Friday and Sunday..bumper to bumper on the 15 highway..

Californians dump millions(maybe billions) of dollars every year , into Nevada.. We fill their hotels, casinos and restaurants..

They have great schools/roads/facilities, and we have to beg for every crumb..

The stip of land between Banning and Indio would have been a fantastic place to have located all those casinos..
Palm Springs was already a glitzy "get-away" place and the Salton Sea was just sitting there, waiting to be turned into a tourist haven...instead of the nasty smelling chemical soup it is today..

We missed the boat, because of a bunch of "do-gooders" who knew what was best for us :(..

People gamble.. that's a fact.. They always have...and they always will..

[realFedUp]

5. "Slots Schwarzenegger"

but can you respect us in the morning?

[PROGRESSIVE1]

6. So it was O.K for Arnie to support the casinos but it was wrong to....

support them when Gray Davis was Governor???

:wtf:

I HATE AUSTRIA!!! HATE, HATE, HATE!!!

AUSTRIA IS 9 MILLION PARASITES ON THE EARTH!

:puke:

Remember: Austria is the REAL HOMELAND of Hitler!!!

Austria is evil!!

:grr: