Posted on 05/22/2020 9:02:28 AM PDT by BenLurkin
Spotlight 29, Tortoise Rock and the Morongo casinos this week will become the first to reopen in the Coachella Valley. Others will join next week, including the Pechanga Resort Casino near Temecula, Soboba Casino near San Jacinto and Cahuilla Casino Hotel near Anza.
The move comes after Gov. Gavin Newsom last week sent tribal leaders a letter, urging them to align their reopening plans with local and state orders. But as sovereign nations, tribal groups are not required to follow the guidance.
The resorts had voluntarily shut their doors in March. Since then, Riverside County’s coronavirus outbreak has grown to the second largest in California, after Los Angeles County. As of Wednesday, there were more than 6,000 confirmed cases and 270 deaths reported across Riverside County.
Casinos are considered higher-risk workplaces under the governor’s reopening plan, due to the number of people they draw from various distances. They’re slated to open in Stage 3 of Newsom’s plan, but the state is still in Stage 2.
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Great news! Tell Gavin to shove it.
It sounds like in Indian Country , they’ve decided this lockdown has lasted long enough.
As noted Indian reservations have great sovereign powers to operate as they see fit.
Mob operations, yes?
Buzz off, Newsom!
Morongo only pawn... in game of life.
A restaurant and a brewery in Orange County posted to social media (according to my wife) they are opening today. We are going to try to get to the restaurant if it does in fact open.
The Coachella Valley isn’t what you normally associate with being an Indian Reservation. The tribe in and around Palm Springs, the Agua Caliente, is very wealthy, and the land which they own is non-contiguous and like a checkerboard, you have a tribal parcel of land, then a non-tribal parcel. They are also very generous in funding many infrastructure projects throughout the Valley.
Indians to the rescue!
But considering nearby San Diego county has reported 97 percent of its 200 deaths were people whom died with other illnesses, then only 3 percent of those who have a chance of dying would actually be well enough to go to a casino to be exposed in the first place. So then, those people in nursing homes for example wont be going to casino to die , then that bumps the odds of a healthy person dying going to a casino in riverside county at 1 in 300,000!
Compare a 1 in 300,000 chance of dying to putting down 100$ on an 8 spot for keno , payout would be 1.5 million dollars. I don’t know about you that’s a chance I would be willing to trade off, but who has ever known anyone to win over a million dollars on keno?
Good luck with that, Gavin! You have no jurisdiction there.
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