"The cardroom/race track initiative is one of two attempting to qualify for the November ballot. The other is promoted by the Agua Caliente tribe in the Palm Springs area, offering to give the state some of its casino profits in exchange for the right to expand its gambling operations beyond limits established in the 20-year compacts signed a few years ago. The tribe is seeking a 99-year deal.
Both of these possible ballot measures provoke one to ask whether California really needs more gambling. If card rooms, horse racing tracks and tribal casinos expand at the rate already allowed by existing law and compacts, gambling operations will soon bring in more revenue in California than in Nevada."
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Editorial: Tread softly on gaming initiatives
Friday, April 2, 2004 More from this date
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