Stand Up for California! is a statewide organization with a focus on gambling issues including tribal gaming, card clubs, horse racing, charitable gaming and the state lottery.


Pleasant Hill bingo parlor running free of the law
6/18/2008, Contra Costa Times
PLEASANT HILL - Behind the storefront windows in a plain suburban shopping center, Gregory Brennan runs a cool, tidy bingo parlor. Dozens of colorful touch-screens draw patrons to play "Bingo Blast." A banner above the counter reads "A Professional Theatre Company." It's a nice little operation. Nice and illegitimate, the Times found. Under state law, this is supposed to be charity bingo. But just what Brennan does with the profits from Network Bingo is anyone's guess. "That's neither here nor there," he said in an interview this week.
 
Editorial: B-I-N-G-O spells 'mess'6/7/2008, Sacramento Bee In the first three months of 2008, charity bingo operators in Sacramento County say they took in a combined $1.5 million for local charities. The money was used to fund school band programs and sports activities, among other things. About 80 percent of that revenue comes from electronic bingo or e-bingo as it is often called.
Annual Report on Bingo Activities 2006- City of Oakland
July 10, 2007, City of Oakland - Office of the City Administrator
 
Video Gaming Texchology, Inc. vs. Bureau of Gambling ControlJune 2, 2008, United States District Court - Northern Division 
 
Attorney General Opinion on Electronic Bingo Aides  Dec. 1998 Attorney General Dan Lungren
 
Bingo or a Casinoby Professor Nelson Rose 5-24-05
 
 
May 21, 2007 - Stand Up for California

AG Brown responds to Stand Up For California - June 2006 Allegations of Illegal gaming devices
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BINGO LEGISLATION , Letters of Opposition  FEDERAL GRAND JURY REQUEST 
 
Request for Federal Grand Jury Investigation - Illegal Gambling Devices
April 23, 2008, Stand Up For California  
 
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AB 1924 - Assembly Member Jeffries Changes the amount of charitable BINGO  funds that may be used for overhead and other operational expenses.  
Opposition to AB 1924- May 8, 2008Third parties have staked out a cottage industry, by offering to host games for charities, providing locations, equipment, security and management.  Who are these entrepreneurs? 
 

 
SB 1328 - Sen.  Cedillo - deletes the $250 limitation on bingo game payouts, thereby allows for an award of any denomination.
 
Opposition to SB 1328 -Remove $250.00 Limit on Bingo April 1, 2008, Stand Up For California  
 
SB 1626 - Sen. Steinberg -Game of Bingo to be played by machine with electronic cards.  Slot machines?
 
Opposition to SB 1626 - Bingo Machines Electronic CardsApril 17, 2008, Stand Up For California

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