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Post by Oss Rae on Jul 9, 2022 20:36:28 GMT -8
Just noticed this. The Pomo Indians support it because some of the funds would go to helping smaller tribes. It all sounds good, but there've been so many good-sounding propositions/measures that passed and not much came of them. Thirty-plus years ago Californians voted to allow a state lottery if some of the revenue went to public schools. The results speak for themselves. More recently there was Measure H to help deal with homelessness, funds for which have been largely tied up all this time.
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Post by Brian on Jul 11, 2022 23:00:26 GMT -8
Other tribes have been running lots and lots of ads against Proposition 27 for many months on television, long before the initiative backed by internet gambling companies qualified for the general election this month -- which must have been confusing to some voters looking for sports betting on their June primary ballots.
I've voted against every gambling initiative since the state lottery in 1984, which sounds funny because I'd probably vote to legalize most if not all drugs. There probably haven't been many people bankrupted from buying lottery tickets, but I don't want to be a part of anybody's gambling problem, something California sanctions. Because Prop 27 would allow people to place bets on their cellphones, I imagine that many people including children will suffer from this form of gambling on top of the adults who go broke year in and year out at casinos.
But the main reason to vote against another proposition applying new fluctuating revenues to a different stream of expenditures, however noble, is that administering our state budgets has become nearly impossible because of initiatives like this over the past three decades.
In competition is Proposition 26, which would restrict sports betting to tribal casinos and California's four racetracks while adding dice games to the cards and slots in the casinos. So far, the four committees on both sides of both propositions have raised a total of $300 million, according to CalMatters. They're clearly set to eclipse the record $226 million the ride share companies spent on their insane initiative in 2020.
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