Protect Our State Budget, Protect Taxpayers, and Protect Vital State Services By Voting Yes On Props 94, 95, 96 And 97

Just because there is one area that brings all politicians together, MONEY, it does not mean this is a good bill.

Are you letting your foxes count your chickens? Why have you placed all your trust in a tribe like Pechanga, that has cheated some family members out of hundreds of MILLIONS? Where is the basis of trust?

Please don't compare Auburn and Pala with Agua Caliente and Pechanga. Can't do the math for that either Ron?

Voting NO will not cause California to lose millions, because WE DON'T HAVE them and you can't lose what you don't have. Better start having those politicians wash the grease from their palms and start working on a budget that we can live with. Better yet, put slots in the LA Racetracks and see how the dollars add up. Bet they'd give up 35% to get them. Whaddya say, level the playing field.

Let the PEOPLE decide. And People, remember, Pechanga, and the other tribes AND our GOVERNOR, DO NOT WANT YOU TO HAVE A CHOICE.

This campaign should be entitled "Protect Our Huge Gambling Profits". What a motley coalition:
Four of the state's 108 tribes got a sweetheart deal worth billions to them and nothing more for any other tribe;
Some cops hope it will buy them more bullets and other cop toys--although the four tribes have always declined requests at the local level, embarrasing their friends;
And what does the telephone workers union know about casinos? Maybe they're hoping more phone lines get put in?
I'm looking forward to putting an end to these kinds of sweetheart deals in February!

TRUTH: the PORAC ho's don't give a damn about casino workers or casino regulation, neither one of which is seriously addressed in the Governor's four compact amendments that will further enrich the State's wealthiest tribes. Nor does PORAC care about the tragedies and social ills resulting from problem gambling, such as produced by Nevada's reliance on gambling revenues to finance state government. Make no mistake, these gambling revenues are far from a free lunch. Moreover, a big chunk of this money will go to cover revenue sharing with non-gaming tribes, increasing the number of State bureaucrats who (fecklessly) oversee tribal gaming, and ineffectual programs to address problem gambling and other social ills resulting from gaming. NO, what PORAC cares about here is short-term: salary and benefits for peace officers in a revenue-short year, due to this Governor's incompetent failure to address structural deficits in the State budget. PORAC would rather buy into the flim flam than take a position in favor of budgetary stability. These gambling revenues would at best place a tiny budgetary bandage on a gaping budgetary wound that requires major surgery to repair.

im voting NO NO NO NO on all of them

The biggest problem areas of Props 94-97 are that: one, it allows the casinos to "self audit", meaning that the State can no longer audit the gambling profits to verify they are not being cheated, and two, it allows the tribes reduce or totally withhold its tax payments if the State permits a non-tribal gambling operation to exist.

We need better legislation than Props 94-97. The tribes are desperate to expand their casinos. The State holds all the cards in this negotiation. We can make them agree to better terms, without selling our souls to the Devil.

Vote "no" on 94, 95, 96, and 97.

The casino's are advertising that there will be 9 BILLION (with a B) dollars to the State over the next two decades (20 years). Don't the people who gamble realize that this money is just a portion of what people will loose to the Indians!! No one talks about all the money that is lost, or all the family's that are torn apart, houses and jobs that are lost, people that go bankrupt (which taxpayer will have to bail out, with higher costs) and yes even suicide.
The other business's in the communities have seen there business decline, because peopled are spending there indiscretion funds at the casino, instead of going to dinner, or out to a movie etc.
I for one would hope that the people loosing the Billions of dollars to the casinos, would much rather have them spending it on goods and services and help with the economy, instead of being a drain on it.

Ernie Stoddard

Most unions are against these propositions. These offer less protection for workers and the environment than previous compacts. Booooo.

Thanks for the comments, I've been trying to research which way I should vote. I am definitely voting NO!

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