"With any luck, California's most powerful gaming tribes will be too busy protecting their own compacts and futures to interfere with Barstow's chances of landing a casino next year.

Southern California gaming tribes successfully threw their weight around last legislative session, using their money and influence to convince state legislators not to ratify a gaming compact that would allow two tribes to come to Barstow to build casino resorts.

Now though, some of these same tribes want to expand their already considerable gaming facilities and found themselves turned back as well."

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Editorial: Gaming tribes face own compact issues (The Desert Dispatch 9/7)