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From: "Victor Rocha" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Mickey Kantor Appointed Special Counsel to Assist California
Indian Tribes on Tribal Gaming
Date: Tue, 4 May 1999 17:19:54 -0700
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Mickey Kantor Appointed Special Counsel to Assist California Indian Tribes
on Tribal Gaming
SACRAMENTO, Calif., May 4 /PRNewswire/ -- Nearly 40 gaming and non-gaming
California Indian tribes who supported the effort to pass Proposition 5 last
November have come together for the purpose of working with Governor Gray
Davis to find a process to implement the Indian gaming guidelines
overwhelmingly approved by voters. Most of the nearly 40 tribes that
currently conduct gaming on their own tribal lands are working with the
non-gaming tribes through the California Nations Indian Gaming Association
(CNIGA) to establish tribal-state gaming compacts. The group expects to
expand its membership prior to commencement of discussions with the
governor.
CNIGA members voted to form the United Tribes Compact Steering Committee for
the purpose of implementing the terms and conditions of the Prop 5 compact
in discussions with the governor. To finalize an acceptable agreement with
the state, the tribes have retained former U.S. Trade Representative and
Secretary of Commerce Mickey Kantor as senior advisor to CNIGA. Mr. Kantor
is a partner in the law firm of Mayer, Brown & Platt. CNIGA also retained
Winner & Associates as public relations counsel. The firm's affiliate,
Winner/Wagner & Mandabach Campaigns managed the successful ``Yes on 5
''campaign.
``We are looking forward to a constructive, substantive and fair process
with the new administration that will finally secure protection for the
limited gaming we now have on our own tribal lands. This is the fundamental
concept that more than 5 million voters -- over 63 percent of the
electorate -- overwhelmingly endorsed in Proposition 5 last November,'' said
Mark Macarro, tribal chairman of the Pechanga Band of Luiseno Indians and
spokesperson for the passage of Prop 5 and for the United Tribes Compact
Steering Committee.
Macarro added that ``executing tribal-state compacts that use the same terms
and provisions outlined under Prop 5 will allow California Indian tribes to
continue to offer limited, well-regulated gaming on tribal lands -- gaming
that has provided self-reliance through employment and funding for housing,
education, healthcare, cultural preservation and other crucial services for
tribal members.''
The United Tribes Compact Steering Committee is chaired by Mary Ann Martin
Andreas, chairperson of the Morongo Band of Mission Indians. There are four
vice chairs representing the various regions of the state. These include
northern vice chair Curtis Anderson of Robinson Rancheria; southern vice
chair John Currier of the Rincon San Luiseno Band of Mission Indians;
eastern vice chair Stephanie Allen of the Tyme Maidu Tribe and central vice
chair Mark Macarro of the Pechanga Band of Luiseno Indians. Coyote Valley
Band of Pomo Indians chairwoman Priscilla Hunter is serving as secretary
with Chemehuevi tribal chairlady Gjrjle Dunlap as treasurer and Viejas Band
of Kumeyaay Indians tribal chairman Anthony Pico and John Beresford of the
La Jolla Tribe serving as members at large.
``The committee represents an inclusive organization whose objectives, when
achieved, will be shared by all California tribes. We represent the majority
of California Indian tribal governments who seek compacts with the state,''
said Mary Ann Martin Andreas, chairperson of the United Tribes Compact
Steering Committee.
SOURCE: California Nations Indian Gaming Association
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/990504/ca_tribes__1.html
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