And now:Ish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (ARTHUR) >Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1999 16:50:21 -0500 (EST) >>Subject: Capitol Alert: Gambling profits buy tribes clout: Contributions > cross party lines > >^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > Many responsibilities have I and all that I >have; I will continue doing even when others are gone. Ajo By: Arthur >Medicine Eagle >vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv >from The Sacramento Bee >http://www.capitolalert.com/news/capalert02_19990124.html Gambling profits buy tribes clout: Contributions cross party lines By Patrick Hoge Bee Capitol Bureau (Published Jan. 24, 1999) Three weeks after their sweeping victories in the November election, Gov.-elect Gray Davis, Lt. Gov.-elect Cruz Bustamante and state Attorney General-elect Bill Lockyer made a political pilgrimage to Southern California. The Democratic trio traveled to Indio to attend the annual pow-wow held by the 25-member Cabazon Band of Mission Indians, which operates the Fantasy Springs Casino outside Palm Springs. The presence of the men elected to California's top three constitutional offices served as powerful testimony to the maturation of a major new special interest -- Indian gambling -- that promises to wield influence in state politics far into the future. For as California tribes spent at least $67.5 million in support of Proposition 5 to legalize tribal slot machines, they joined the top tier of campaign contributors to candidates for state offices. Led by a handful of small, casino-operating tribes, California's American Indians in 1998 spent -- directly or indirectly -- almost $9.2 million on candidates for legislative and statewide offices, and on groups affiliated with the two major political parties, according to a review by The Bee of state disclosure documents covering donations made through the November election. In addition, tribes contributed more than 10 percent of Davis' nearly $4 million inaugural budget, gave tens of thousands of dollars to local and federal candidates, and spent almost $1 million on lobbying in Sacramento during the first three quarters of 1998 alone. &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&& Tsonkwadiyonrat (We are ONE Spirit) Unenh onhwa' Awayaton http://www.tdi.net/ishgooda/ &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&
