Good morning. California Governor Gray Davis and Lieutenant Governor Cruz Bustamante have received more that $1-million in campaign contributions from Indian-run casino businesses since 1999. Davis, pandering for votes as payback, has proposed to give members of the tribes a key role in selecting members of the California Gambling Control Commision:
Yahoo! News - Gov. Davis Defends Offer to Calif. Tribes
We are looking for good people with regulatory experience,” Davis told reporters Saturday after recording a Labor Day radio address in West Hollywood. “I think it’s perfectly appropriate
Arnold Schwarzenegger said in a written statement:
It puts both the commission and the gaming tribes in a very bad position, creating potential questions of conflict and undermining the vital credibility of the commission itself
The analogy in my headline is flawed, of course. It’s not the drunks who would be running the “liquor control board (lcb)” — California Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control. It would be the large liquor companies, “Big Booze.”
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