◼ It pains us to urge a No vote on Prop. 48, which would ratify gaming compacts between California and the North Fork Rancheria of Mono Indians and the Wiyot Tribe. - Orange County Register Editorial
The North Fork tribe proposes a casino in Madera County, with a portion of the revenue going to the Wiyot Tribe.
We would have no problem whatsoever if these compacts were similar to those the state entered into with other gaming tribes. In every case, they stipulated that the casino would be built on reservation land.
The North Fork compact departs from long-established precedent. It would allow the tribe to build its proposed casino on nontribal land. The North Fork reservation is located in the Sierra National Forest, while the North Fork Rancheria Resort Hotel and Casino would be nearly 40 miles away, near the city of Madera, on Highway 99.
Prop. 48 not only would give the North Fork tribe the green light, it also would incentivize other as-yet-nongaming tribes to acquire land far from their reservations for purposes of building casinos....
◼ Rival tribes raise $4M to block North Fork Rancheria casino bid - IndianGaming.com
◼ (Rival) California tribe fighting casino makes $5.4 million campaign donation...to the campaign opposing Proposition 48, the referendum on a 2013 casino deal between the state and the North Fork Rancheria of Mono Indians that would allow the tribe to build a casino off Highway 99 in Madera. The tribe’s contribution, an in-kind donation of TV and internet advertising, brings its no-on-48 investment to more than $8 million. - Sacramento Bee
◼ Tom McClintock says VOTE YES. This ratifies Indian Gaming compacts for two tribes in economically depressed regions of the state that will be an economic boon to the struggling local communities there. It also cuts through environmental red tape that would otherwise delay these projects for years.
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