California Governor Fights Indian Casino Expansion

[seemslikeadream]

By Adam Tanner
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has a warning for state voters:

"The Indians are ripping us off."

Schwarzenegger has taken up the line to convince them to reject a tribe-backed initiative on the Nov. 2 ballot that would allow rapid expansion of American Indian casinos in the nation's most populous state and derail the governor's own effort to manage casino growth.

Some critics say the governor is going too far with his campaign -- tapping a deep vein of hostility that dates back to the settlers' conquest of the U.S. West.

"His statement touches on racism," said Virgil Moorehead, chairman of the Big Lagoon Rancheria tribe in northern California. "It's so uneducated and so far-fetched to say that we are ripping off the state."

Added Victor Rocha, an American Indian who edits a Web site related to casino gambling: "I don't think it is racist but it sure fans the flames of racism by going and saying that and just having that type of hatred of Native Americans."

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http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=politicsNews&storyID=6519487

[theoceansnerves]

1. the son of a nazi is racist?

who would have ever guessed that?

[beanball]

2. "The Indians are ripping us off"

Yo Arnuld we are the ones that ripped off the Indians,you stupid clown.

[The Zanti Regent]

3. Californians, VOTE YES ON 70

If Mr. Steroid Snorter opposes it, then it must be good.

Fuck You Arnold, Go back to prancing around in your pink G string to Disco music...

[ahimsa]

Might be more to it than that

San Diego County Democratic Party is recommending voting NO on 70 - might be worth finding out why (http://www.sddemocrats.org/ballot_measures.htm). I don't know enough about it myself, but the ballot itself says it's about giving exclusive gaming rights to tribes. Maybe there are other disenfranchised groups that want to be included? Dunno.

Here are a few other California democratic groups that say vote NO:

http://home.earthlink.net/~socalada/ADAWebsite/endorse.html

http://www.dpsfv.com/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=9

[K8-EEE]

16. This IsMy Dilemma!

Honestly I would love nothing better than to vote NO on anything Der Governator insists I do otherwise with, but lots of organizations I respect actually AGREE with him on this thing.

It irks me that anybody with the slightest knowledge of history can say the Indians are ripping US off!

[slackmaster]

24. Don't give Arnold the power to make your decisions for you

Ignore Arnold and make up your own mind.

[Piperay]

21. NO, even a stopped clock

is right twice a day and inspite of Arnie I am voting NO because this Prop. is bad and Arnie is on the correct side. It's wrong of him to use the Indians the prop is wrong for other reasons, like it being bad for the environment.

[slackmaster]

23. That's about as weak as an argument gets

Makes about as much sense as being opposed to dogs because Adolf Hitler liked them.

:dunce:

[shanti]

4. oh no he didn't!

that puke fixed his mouth to say the indians are ripping US off!!!!??? the gropenater needs to be bitch slapped, he must go! :grr: i detest him more each day!

[Gyre]

5. What a freaking dipshit!

These repubes are really better-off keeping their yaps shut.

Gyre

[frylock]

6. this is straight up racism and playah hating..

I'm so fucking sick of the "I didn't vote for this" line of ads. Well what the fuck did you vote for? I suppose these idiots thought the tribes would be content to collect a few beads, or other wampam. If you don't like the fact that the tribes are making some money, then don't go to their damn casinos. What about the corpos that are raking in billions, like the opponents of 70 say the tribes are. Shall they pay an inflated tax rate? The tribes want to pay the same corporate tax rates as all other businesses do. These numbnuts want them to pick up the slack for junior's failed economic policies. Herr Gropinazi makes it sound like them dirty injuns are going to open casinos on every street corner. They're limited to building them on the res. I mailed my absentee this afternoon, and proudly voted YES on prop 70.

[uncle ray]

7. what? i thought he was for the casinos?

wasn't he pushing to balance the budget with proceeds from the casinos? i thought i heard he was paving the way for californias biggest casino, in a rural area. i suppose now the indians are ripping us off, so the casinos will have to be owned by a private company, not the indian tribes.

[NVMojo]

11. this story surprised me too

i thought he dug Indian Gaming. Guess only if he gets his own way with it.

[Zorra]

8. "The Indians are ripping us off.".....Now I've heard everything.

Enron Arnold is such an ignorant, corrupt, thoughtless, racist nazi pig.

Years of taking too many illegal steroids have fucked up Arnie's brain.

He is an extremely dangerous knuckledragging corporate bootlicker and is completely unqualified to be the governor of anything other than his own life.

[MO_Dem]

9. Enron was the first thing I thought of

when I read this! Also, Arnie might want to call up GeeDuhbya and ask him what "sovereingty" means! Of course, GeeDuhhb couldn't give him a straight answer, but maybe with Uncle Ted's help, he could figure it out.

[pinniped]

10. The stupid Steroidinator doesn't know shit about history.

The Indians got some nerve ripping us off with that Manifest Destiny crap.:eyes:

[VegasWolf]

12. <sarcasm> The Indians were just an inconvenient people in

the way of our unstoppable destination with manifest destiny.
They were too ignorant to see that we were giving them
freedom, religion, happiness. We gave them 1000's of
acres in the beautiful desert. And now they want money?
I'm speechless!! </sarcasm>

New Information Shows Bush Indecisive, Paranoid, Delusional

[Seabiscuit]

13. Have any of these idots ever considered the fact that...

Indian lands are federal sovereign territories over which States have no jusisdiction???

[Seabiscuit]

14. Except, of course,

... where criminal law is involved.

[CHICKEN CAPITOL USA]

15. Indian Nation is not subject to U.S. taxation-

Compensation granted to Indian Tribes will remain--
Go back to Europe Ahnold--
and get a U.S. history book to read on your flight back.
"Moran"!!!

How could so many stupid people be in so many high positions in this country?

[drdtroit]

19. "How could so many stupid people ..."

"... be in so many high positions in this country?"

Terrifying, isn't it?

[MisterP]

17. VEE VEAH HEEA FUST!

[LibDemAlways]

18. Back in the 80's my husband

was involved in an organization that raised the money for and brought Thanksgiving dinner to a different impoverished California tribe every year. Thanks to the success of the casinos, those days are over. Ahnold should shut the hell up and leave the tribes alone.

[Piperay]

20. I'm voting NO on 70

the Sierra Club says NO because this is a ploy by the big casinos to spread all over the state. Arnie may have his reasons and his reasons may be wrong the Prop is still a bad one and deserves a NO.

[slackmaster]

22. Same here!

I usually go with the Sierra Club's recommendations on California propositions. In this case the California Democratic Party, the Sierra Club, and my old friend Pete Stahl are all on the same page - NO on 70.

http://www.peterates.com/index.shtml

I'm also opposed to the expansion of casino gambling because it attracts people who have problems with gambling. It's an addiction for some people. I've seen families torn apart or financially devastated by gambling problems.

I'm voting NO on propositions 68 and 70. I don't care if Arnold Schwarzenegger or Satan himself agrees with me.