[John Jorsett]

In San Diego county, we have 19 Indian reservations. If this bill becomes law, about 2 square feet of the county will be outside of their jurisdiction.

I foresee what's going to happen all over California: the board, which has to be majority Indian, and is appointed by the governor, will delay and hinder projects until the tribes and politicians are paid a tribute by the developer. This is just a way for both of these groups to extract more dough out of private business.

[John Jorsett]

This is another instance where Davis has to trade off offending two major groups of contributors. I'll bet his toughest job as governor is deciding which side to sell out to.

[chit*chat]

I think it is too bad about their delays. We stole the land from the Indians and consistently broke our treaties. They are entitled to their land.

[Carry_Okie]

I don't suppose you have ever had the pleasure of meeting one of these $150/hr tribal consultants.

They tell you which tribe they represent, but that tribe might have lived 150 miles away... Well, all I've got to tell you is that they seem to know an awful lot about land they've never visited. There's no telling how they were "discovered" to be local tribal representatives (much less certified as such), seeing as many of those tribes have been gone for over a century. Sometimes they tell patent lies about the way the land was "before the white man came" (usually detailing how it was when they were kids around 1940). It's fascinating how huffy they get when confronted with historical facts that refute their claims.

After the tribes get done with you, then there are the archaeologists. In Santa Cruz County, anything on your land over 50 years old, constitutes a possible archaeological site. Then there's the biotic survey... the geotechnical report... the geological hazards assessment... the soils report...

[tubebender]

I have been following this somewhat and I agree with all here that this is the biggest anti freedom bill ever passed. It will apply to every development you can imagine except of course the Indian casinos themselves. Most Indians are as bad as women about nitpicking.

I bebeive our own Wes Chesbro sponsored this.

[Gophack]

OK, here's the question ... who gave more money to Davis? The tribes or the developers? I know that the developers gave Davis major dollars, and he's close to Angelides who is tight with the developers. I see a veto ... but maybe the tribes have ponied up more money, and in that case Davis may go with them ... this is so confusing! Davis should just put up an auction between the developers and the Indians ... wait, there already is one! egray.org!