Just read this editorial..

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/...,5983288.story


When charities went up against casino-owning Indian tribes in Sacramento recently, they got schooled in who wields the real political power. The outcome raises serious questions about whether Californians meant to forever guarantee tribes that there would be no meaningful competition to their gambling operations.

A bill by Sen. Darrell Steinberg (D-Sacramento) to allow nonprofit fundraisers to install electronic bingo machines was dropped right after tribes went to work against it, protesting that it would violate a pact with the state giving them the sole right to slot machines. Then, in the waning days of the legislative session, Sen. Gil Cedillo (D-Los Angeles) gutted a bill on school lunches and amended it to specifically forbid anyone besides the tribes from owning gambling machines.

YIKES, why rush this thing, let the process work correctly. If the Charities are allowed by law to have these machines, let them have it. I would much rather see the money go to charity than to the Indian Casinos, which make a lot of money already.