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.

Profit in Casino Management, Not Casinos12/1/2008, Minyanville Market
The gaming sector has been under a lot of pressure this year. Hotel rates have fallen due to a drop in demand, along with numerous capacity additions. "This -- along with the private equity buyouts (huge debt outstanding) of the Harrah's and Station properties -- brings me to the conclusion that some casino operators are at real risk of going into Chapter-11 bankruptcy. Servicing all this debt in a town filled with overcapacity is the classic recipe for default 
 
Reconsider casino location
12/2/2008, Fresno Bee- Editorial
The effort to build a $250 million casino on Highway 99 north of Madera has been slowed by the downturn in the economy. This gives the North Fork Rancheria of Mono Indians an opportunity to reconsider the casino's location and build it in a rural area closer to the tribe's homeland. Station Casinos of Las Vegas, the tribe's partner in the proposed off-reservation casino, could file for bankruptcy, and gambling industry analysts believe that would limit plans to go forward with the project.  
Prohibition vs. Regulation Debated As U.S. Bettors Use Foreign Sites12/1/2008, The Washington Post
But in 2006, Congress passed legislation that effectively banned the company from the U.S. market. Later, federal agents arrested the firm's two founders and seized their pricey Malibu beach houses and millions of dollars in other assets. Neteller's crime: It processed payments for U.S. poker players and thousands of other Americans who were using Internet gambling sites.

 
The Mohawk Connection12/1/2008, The Washington Post
In reporting his two-part series about online poker, Inside Bet, Post writer Gilbert M. Gaul learned that the two big cheating scandals occurred at Web sites owned by the same person -- Joseph Tokwiro Norton, former grand chief of the Kahnawake Mohawk tribe located on a reservation near Montreal.

 
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Falling revenues hit state lottery
12/2/2008, Capitol Weekly
Ticket sales by the California lottery are off about 10 percent compared to a year ago, a drop lottery officials are pinning on a bad economy. But California Lottery officials say they don't think the lagging sales will interfere with efforts to modernize the lottery and revamp it to give more revenue to the state. For the first four months of the 2008-2009 fiscal year, the California Lottery sold $985 million worth of lottery tickets, down from $1.09 billion for the same period a year ago. But last year's lottery sales were also down from the year before. The lottery sold just under $3.1 billion in tickets during the last fiscal year, down from $3.3 billion in 2006-07 and $3.6 billion during 2005-
State Legislation to Watch
 
On December 1, 2008 the 2009 Legislative Regular Session Convenes for Organizational Session

 
Federal Legislation to Watch  
A Lame Duck session may begin Nov. 17/18, there is speculation of a  'Lands Ominbus bill' to be introduced by Senator Harry Reid. It will carry approximately 160 bills that have previously passed the House, as well as Senate Bills. MORE AS IT EVOLVES. 
 

H. R. 2963 - ENROLLED Congressman Issa Transfers without regulatory environmental process 1,178 ac. in Riverside and San Diego Counties to the Pechanga Band.  AMENDED TO INCLUDE: 
No Gaming. Maintained as open space and construction consistent with this purpose.
No existing right of ways or right of use prior to the date of enactment are affected. 
H.R. 3490 -REPORTED TO SENATE Congressman Radanovich Declares that specificed federal lands are to be held in trust by the US for the benefit of the Tuolumne Band of Me-Wuik Indians  for non gaming purposes.
H. R. 5680 REPORTED TO SENATE Congressman Grijalva - A bill to extend leases for Morongo and transfer money to CRIT.
S. 3320  - Tribal Law and Order Act - to be introduced in early 2009. 
 

 

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