Original Pechanga has the story! This is very good news for the No on Pechanga, No on Props 94-97.
Thank You MBCLA and Mabuhay Radio. They are even considering a Filipino-American BOYCOTT of Pechanga!
Thursday, January 24, 2008
Pechanga Ad Spend is Not Generating Results
According to the latest Field Poll, Pechanga and the other three tribes $82 MILLION dollar spend has not help to widen the gap between Californians who vote NO.
It must be that people are starting to educate themselves to the fact that our legislators can do better for us. Make that NEW legislators. When we get rid of Perata and Nunez, we can tell the Governor to make a better deal.
SF Chronicle says NO
Sacto BEE says NO
Modesto Bee says NO
Bakersfield CA says NO
Original Pechanga is doing a great job keeping us updated
It must be that people are starting to educate themselves to the fact that our legislators can do better for us. Make that NEW legislators. When we get rid of Perata and Nunez, we can tell the Governor to make a better deal.
SF Chronicle says NO
Sacto BEE says NO
Modesto Bee says NO
Bakersfield CA says NO
Original Pechanga is doing a great job keeping us updated
Wednesday, January 23, 2008
Mabuhay Radio Says No to Pechanga
Bobby Reyes, editor of Mabuhay Radio has put up an editorial that says NO to Expanded gaming.
Take a look at the website here: http://www.mabuhayradio.com/ This is the voice of Filipino America. Thank you Bobby, for your support for NO on Props. 94.97;
Mabuhay Radio, San Francisco Chronicle, Bakersfield Californian, Sacramento Bee ALL say NO to Pechanga and NO to expanded gaming
Take a look at the website here: http://www.mabuhayradio.com/ This is the voice of Filipino America. Thank you Bobby, for your support for NO on Props. 94.97;
Mabuhay Radio, San Francisco Chronicle, Bakersfield Californian, Sacramento Bee ALL say NO to Pechanga and NO to expanded gaming
Sunday, January 20, 2008
NAACP Endorsement is FOR SALE. Pechanga buys them off
Wow. So much for the NAACP's concern of civil rights. I guess for Huffman, it's all about the Benjamins.
NAACP head is paid by tribes, backs their plan
By Shane Goldmacher - sgoldmacher@sacbee.com
The president of the California NAACP has been paid more than $40,000 in consulting fees – and the organization itself has received $60,000 – from a coalition of Indian tribes at the same time the civil rights group has endorsed four ballot measures pushed by its tribal benefactors.
The payments to Alice Huffman, who has served as president of the state conference of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People since 1999, continue a three-year pattern in which Huffman's political firm has been paid hundreds of thousands of dollars by special interest groups.
QUESTION: What is it that Huffman does that's worth $40,000? How many hours has she spent on consulting?
NAACP head is paid by tribes, backs their plan
By Shane Goldmacher - sgoldmacher@sacbee.com
The president of the California NAACP has been paid more than $40,000 in consulting fees – and the organization itself has received $60,000 – from a coalition of Indian tribes at the same time the civil rights group has endorsed four ballot measures pushed by its tribal benefactors.
The payments to Alice Huffman, who has served as president of the state conference of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People since 1999, continue a three-year pattern in which Huffman's political firm has been paid hundreds of thousands of dollars by special interest groups.
QUESTION: What is it that Huffman does that's worth $40,000? How many hours has she spent on consulting?
Wednesday, January 16, 2008
The Pechanga Indian Removal Acts
http://www.apoliticalblog.com/?p=146
Pechanga follows Andrew Jackson's lead in getting rid of Indians.
Original Pechanga is writing at another blog? What a story he has up at A Political Blog.
Vote NO on Props. 94-97.
Pechanga follows Andrew Jackson's lead in getting rid of Indians.
Original Pechanga is writing at another blog? What a story he has up at A Political Blog.
Vote NO on Props. 94-97.
Sunday, January 6, 2008
NO on Prop.94: Handling of Gambling Compacts Merit Investigation
Editorial: Bungling? Or ... Handling of gambling compacts at state and federal levels merits an investigation
www.sacbee.com
Dueling campaign ads alternately denouncing and praising four new Indian gaming compacts began hitting airwaves across California weeks ago. Opponents and proponents of four initiative referenda on the Feb. 5 ballot – Propositions 94, 95, 96 and 97 – are spending millions to persuade voters to ratify the compacts or to repeal them. Despite the campaigns, the compacts could well be in effect already. In a series of curious – if not downright suspicious – actions, the disputed compacts were ratified by the U.S. secretary of the interior last month and their approval published in the Federal Register.
Here's what happened. After the Legislature approved the compacts last summer, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger sent them to the California secretary of state's office. Even though the compacts were not set to become law until Jan. 1 and opponents were collecting signatures to place initiatives on the ballot to repeal them, Secretary of State Debra Bowen forwarded the agreements on to the U.S. Department of Interior in September.
Under federal law, the interior secretary has 45 days to review tribal state gambling compacts and accept or reject them. Given the fact that the compacts were being challenged, it's unclear how the secretary would have acted. But he never had a chance to review them. When the California compacts arrived at Interior, they were misplaced for 80 days.
They then appeared one day in the in-box of a key Bureau of Indian Affairs official. (We're not making this up.) Because they had been lost for a period well beyond the 45-day deadline for review, they gained automatic approval when they resurfaced. This peculiar saga does not end there. To officially become law, the compacts had to be published in the Federal Register. Given the pending referenda and the mysterious disappearance of the compacts, Interior officials initially said they would not publish them right away, which was sensible because there was no deadline for publication.
Then on Dec. 19 Interior officials reversed course and published them anyway. The sequence of events merits a thorough investigation, beginning in California. Why did Secretary of State Debra Bowen send the compacts to Washington before they became law? Where did they disappear for 80 critical days before they showed up in a federal bureaucrat's in-box?
If they stand, the gambling compacts will allow four of the richest and most powerful tribes in California to triple the number of slots at their casinos.
These deals are worth billions of dollars.
It's very hard if not impossible to believe that the series of events which led to their becoming law prematurely grew out of innocent bureaucratic bungling.
www.sacbee.com
Dueling campaign ads alternately denouncing and praising four new Indian gaming compacts began hitting airwaves across California weeks ago. Opponents and proponents of four initiative referenda on the Feb. 5 ballot – Propositions 94, 95, 96 and 97 – are spending millions to persuade voters to ratify the compacts or to repeal them. Despite the campaigns, the compacts could well be in effect already. In a series of curious – if not downright suspicious – actions, the disputed compacts were ratified by the U.S. secretary of the interior last month and their approval published in the Federal Register.
Here's what happened. After the Legislature approved the compacts last summer, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger sent them to the California secretary of state's office. Even though the compacts were not set to become law until Jan. 1 and opponents were collecting signatures to place initiatives on the ballot to repeal them, Secretary of State Debra Bowen forwarded the agreements on to the U.S. Department of Interior in September.
Under federal law, the interior secretary has 45 days to review tribal state gambling compacts and accept or reject them. Given the fact that the compacts were being challenged, it's unclear how the secretary would have acted. But he never had a chance to review them. When the California compacts arrived at Interior, they were misplaced for 80 days.
They then appeared one day in the in-box of a key Bureau of Indian Affairs official. (We're not making this up.) Because they had been lost for a period well beyond the 45-day deadline for review, they gained automatic approval when they resurfaced. This peculiar saga does not end there. To officially become law, the compacts had to be published in the Federal Register. Given the pending referenda and the mysterious disappearance of the compacts, Interior officials initially said they would not publish them right away, which was sensible because there was no deadline for publication.
Then on Dec. 19 Interior officials reversed course and published them anyway. The sequence of events merits a thorough investigation, beginning in California. Why did Secretary of State Debra Bowen send the compacts to Washington before they became law? Where did they disappear for 80 critical days before they showed up in a federal bureaucrat's in-box?
If they stand, the gambling compacts will allow four of the richest and most powerful tribes in California to triple the number of slots at their casinos.
These deals are worth billions of dollars.
It's very hard if not impossible to believe that the series of events which led to their becoming law prematurely grew out of innocent bureaucratic bungling.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
