Hello.
What Davis signed allowing an Indian tribe to build a casino on
non-tribal land was not actually a bill.
Rather was a "compact" with the Fort Mojave tribe. The compact allows
this tribe to build a casino on non-tribal land near Needles,
California. Eventually, a bill to approve the compact will have to be
passed by the legislature and approved by the next governor.
From the San Francisco Examiner:
"Lame duck Gov. Gray Davis announced his first approval of an
off-reservation casino Monday, a compact with a Needles-area tribe
that still needs ratification by state legislators and Gov.-elect
Arnold Schwarzenegger."
source:
"Davis approves first off-reservation casino," Associated Press, in
the San Francisco Examiner
http://www.sfexaminer.com/templates/story.cfm?displaystory=1&storyname=102103b_davis
From the LA Daily News:
" Then there's the casino's location.
The Needles facility will be the first in the state not actually
located on an Indian reservation. The purpose is to keep the casino
away from the downtown area, thus minimizing its impact on the local
community, but the resulting precedent is enormous: Indian casinos can
now go anywhere.
Where next: San Francisco, Santa Monica, next to the Staples Center in
downtown Los Angeles?"
source: Parting shot Davis cuts one last sweetheart deal with Indian
casinos
Los Angeles Daily News, October 23, 2003,
http://www.dailynews.com/Stories/0,1413,200%257E20951%257E1713962,00.html
From BayArea.com:
'The Fort Mojave tribe, which already runs casinos in Nevada and
Arizona, would share 5 percent of its slot revenues with the state...
The federal Bureau of Indian Affairs also must agree to take the land
into trust for gaming purposes. If it does, Fort Mojave would become
the first tribe in California, and only the third in the nation, to
win BIA approval for a casino off its reservation..
"This would be quite precedent-setting, particularly for California,"
said tribal lawyer Rob Rosette.'
http://www.bayarea.com/mld/cctimes/news/7065162.htm
From the Sacramento Bee:
" In the past, Davis has said he was opposed to Indian casinos on
non-reservation lands. But administration officials said Monday that
the governor had made an exception in the Fort Mojave case because the
tribe was willing to forgo locating the casino on land it owns in
downtown Needles, near schools, churches and residential areas.
...Everyone in the process agreed that it would be better for the
tribe to have a location that is not in the heart of the city," said
Kathryn Doi, Davis' deputy legal affairs secretary."
source: Sacramento Bee, "Davis OKs first-of-kind casino pact" October
21, 2003
http://www.sacbee.com/content/politics/ca/story/7640107p-8580584c.html
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The complete text of the Fort Mojave Compact that Davis signed is on
the governor's web site:
http://www.governor.ca.gov/govsite/msdocs/press_release_2003/Fort_Mojave_Compact_2003_Final.doc
This file is in DOC format, so you'll need to open it in a word
processor (e.g., Microsoft Word). If you don't have that, let me
know, and I can paste the text as a clarification.
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search strategy:
google news: davis, "off reservation", casino
I hope this helps. |
