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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. | |
High court ruling has tribes scrambling By George Brennan March 08, 2009, Cape Cod Online. Nearly two weeks after the U.S. Supreme Court defined "now" in a decision that cripples the efforts of the Mashpee Wampanoag and many other tribes to build casinos, American Indians across the country are looking to define "fix." "While it's true that the Supreme Court decision may not affect all tribes recognized after 1934, making that claim could just lead to lengthy and costly legal battles, according to attorney Heidi McNeil Staudenmaier, an Indian gaming expert with an Arizona law firm." S. 338 Letters of Support -- Keep them coming! This federal legislation requires the Lytton Band of Pomo to use the two-part determination process intended by IGRA. This provides greater scrunity by the public and local government. Restores the management of the size and scope of gaming to the State of California. | |
Native woman up for top legal post at Interior Thursday, March 5, 2009
Hilary Tompkins, Navajo, served as chief counsel to New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson (D). Photo © M.G. Bralley. President Barack Obama plans to name a Native woman to serve as the top legal official for the Interior Department, Secretary Ken Salazar said on Wednesday. Speaking to tribal leaders in Washington, D.C., Salazar said the expected nominee is a member of the Navajo Nation. He didn't mention her name but sources identified her as Hilary Tompkins, a prominent attorney from New Mexico.
More Calif. stores accused of stealing customers' lottery prizes Mar. 6, 2009, Lottery Post Perhaps you're not quite as unlucky in the lottery as you thought. That scratcher ticket you tossed? Well, it just might have been a winner - with the cash prize going to none other than the store owner or clerk you passed it off to as garbage. Asian American gambling addicts face cultural gap in getting help Mar. 08, 2009 Sacramento Bee The rangers found Ee Kouei Saelee hanging from a tree in Gibson Ranch Park after he'd gambled away his life savings, his self-respect and his will to live. Saelee, 51, had helped many of Sacramento's Mien refugees find jobs, homes and health care. But the shaman who spoke five languages and saved others' lives as a healer and medical interpreter couldn't save himself from his addiction to pai gao poker.
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Courts set to decide charity bingo machine cases The Sacramento BeeMarch 9, 2009 California tribal casino representatives warn that the state risks losing tens of millions of dollars in tribal revenue-sharing payments if authorities can't shut down charitable bingo parlors that operate casino-style machines. A new law intended to ban electronic bingo games used by many charities went into effect Jan. 1. But several bingo parlors in Sacramento and elsewhere have continued operating the machines under a court injunction that stopped state and county authorities from shutting down the games. Visits the NEW and IMPROVED web site: www.standupca.org check-out the search button!
LINKS and Legislation
HR 9: Price - Resolved by the Assembly of the State of California, That the week of March 1 to March 7, 2009, inclusive, be recognized as National Problem Gambling Awareness Week and the agencies and organizations described above be commended for their concerted effort to raise public awareness of problem gambling; and be it further
SB 126: Cedillo - Legislation is also needed to clarify that existing law requires that all charitable bingo must be played using a tangible card and that the only permissible electronic devices to be used by charitable bingo players are card-minding devices.
AB 293: Mendoza - (not sure of the intent of this bill)So far, addresses definitions etc. This is a wait and see.
SB 357: Ducheny -Proposes to extend the sunset date of the Indian Gaming Special Distribution Fund (SDF) Grant Program, for grants to local jurisdictions to mitigate the impacts of tribal casinos, until January 1, 2020. Only 21 tribes pay into this fund - all have 1999 tribal state compacts. 1999 Compacts have failed the state both financially and socially.
S. 338 US Senator Feinstein: Requires a two-part determination for the expansion of the gaming facility or scope of gaming at Casino San Pablo operated by the Lytton Band. Provides greater scrunity by the public and local government. Restores the management of the size and scope of gaming to the State of California. PLEASE SEND A LETTER OF SUPPORT.
Compulsive Gambling Institute www.gamblingaddiction.cc 1-800-GAMBLER 24 Hour Problem Gambling Help Line - Tom Tucker, Chief Executive Officer
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