Prop 27

[Oss Rae]

Does anyone know more about this? A few tribes seem strongly for it, but I hear many other tribes are against it. voterguide.sos.ca.gov/quick-reference-guide/27.htm

[anni]

I'm voting NO. With the expansion of gambling and 90% of profits going out of state...I'm not seeing a "win" for anyone.

[Oss Rae]

Thank you for your input. I'm suspicious of it just at face value. I remember when allowing a state lottery was supposed to improve schools in CA. It seems dubious 27 would help homeless/mentally ill.

[Brian]

Oss Rae started another Prop 27 thread last July with his initial thoughts on the ads he'd just seen by proponents where I wrote in reply:

Jul 11, 2022 23:00:26 GMT -8 Brian said:

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.

At last report, the committees on both sides of the two propositions have added a combined $100 million in the past two months -- now they've raised $400 million plus and growing.  A recent poll said 54 percent of California voters were opposed to Prop 27.  I imagine that local TV viewers are fatigued with deceptive ads constantly flung at them from four sides.  The only hope for the internet gaming companies to pull this out is to directly appeal to people who really want to gamble with their cellphones and turn them out to vote.