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I wanted to touch base with CalCowGirl on the issue of Propositions 94 - 97. I had heard the commercials with McClintock joining Schwarzenegger and the Republican Party to support them. It had been my take that the negotiated terms would low-ball the state on this twenty year agreement.

Since you raised the issue in your comments, what’s you reasoning behind not supporting the gaming initiatives. Are you thoughts pretty much along the lines of mine, or did you have more information that would make this even clearer.

I suspect the casinos are going to pull in hundreds of billions of dollars over the next twenty years. IF it were say on the order of $750 billion dollars, $9 billion would be an incredibly low rate of taxation.

I don’t want the casinos taxed unfairly, but they should be taxed at the rates other businesses in California are. And the taxation of casinos in other states would be a good guideline.

They are playing up this $9 billion as if it were an amazing amount of money. And on the surface, it is. Dig deeper and it isn’t at all.

I recall McClintock taking money from the tribes years ago. He may still be, but I don’t know.

Can’t say this doesn’t trouble me. It was one of the main reasons I would have stayed away from casino money. Despite what folks say, I still don’t think of casino money as completely ‘clean’ money.

There are other ways to get funding and I wish Tom had gone other routes.

If you folks would comment on these matters, I’d appreciate it.

As it is, I’m still no on 94-97. And I am also scratching my head over Tom’s backing of them.

I just took 9 billion dollars that they say in the commercial is over the "next couple of decades" and divided 9 billion by 20 years and come up with less than $500 million per year for all of the Golden State!!! That's a pittance in my view and then we find it's completely excluding 2 of the biggest and best CA casinos and what's up with that?

I don't want Indian Gaming "War Lords" in my state, corrupting my state government and fighting it out in the streets in drive-by gun battles just like Capone and the Mob!!!

We don't even have a legitimate CA Gaming Commission with teeth like NV's to keep things governed correctly!!!

This whole thing is wrong and when I pointed it out on another thread, some dufus comes on this thread earlier and calls me some kind of "racist!" What a steaming pantload!!!

My biggest disappointment in McClintock is his cozying up to these Indian Gaming seperatists and their special inequitable deals!!!