[tallhappy]

The gambling wars are on their way. Schwarzenegger will probably side with the Hollywood Park/Nevada concerns.

To oppose the Indian interests they will move to allow Nevada gambling to undercut the tribes.

It is not good.

Indian gaming is a big enough problem Nevada interests is worse.

[ambrose]

Indian gaming is already pretty bad. The Indians are starting to buy plots of land in suburban communities and declaring such land their "reservation"... and then building casinos right on top of them. There's one such example right outside of Sacramento right now. Arnold's decision to take on the Indians was one of the few things I liked about his campaign... but if he's just going after the Indians at the behest of Nevada casinos?? ... No thanks.

[Roscoe]

A tribal casino pays more state taxes to California than a Nevada casino.

[kingu]

The gambling wars are on their way. Schwarzenegger will probably side with the Hollywood Park/Nevada concerns.

There's been quite rumblings of this for years, with people in the legislature trying to squeeze in changes to card clubs and race tracks to legalize virtually every form of gaming.

The biggest problem is that the politicos have ignored that the card clubs are breaking the law, and no one is enforcing it.. They enforced it against the tribes, but the card clubs have seemed to be immune even after court decisions go against them. The clubs and the tracks know how to play dirty politics, in ways that make Indian politics look tame.

Though, at the end of the day, the tribes made targets of themselves with their triple-donating to Bustamante, Davis and Tom.

[Chancellor Palpatine]

Nevada gaming has some level of oversight, as well as mandatory payoff levels and specific reporting. Indian gaming does not have nearly the same level of scrutiny as gaming in Nevada, Atlantic City or the Midwest/Southern boats.

This is why serious gamblers don't go to Indian casinos - it is a bigger ripoff.