Legislative Scorecard
Detroit Syndicate's Barstow Casinos Scheme
As deadlines loom for legislation to be considered in California's 2007 legislative session and without any real "news" to report by Team Ilitch, already running a deficit of supporters over 2006; let's take a look at where things stand on the legislative scorecard relative to Detroit's Barstow Casinos.
2006 Session
2. Assemblywoman Patty Berg
3. Senator Roy Ashburn *
4. Assemblyman Bill Maze *
5. Assemblyman Leland Yee *
Since 2005, Ilitch's California lobbyists and Michigan PR agency have been able to attract the public support of just six legislators; two of those were termed out of office in 2006; one of them was the author of Ilitch's failed 2006 legislation.
It was announced yesterday at yet another of their 11th Hour press conferences that Senator Patricia Wiggins, elected last fall to Wes Chesbro's former seat, and Barstow area Senator Roy Ashburn would author the repeat legislation in the 2007 session. The same plans were rejected by an Assembly committee in June and in the previous March a Senate Committee temporarily moth-balled the plans when it refused to take any action at all.
Clearly Team Ilitch was holding out trying to recruit an author of greater prominence on this topic or they wouldn't have waited until this late in the game to make the announcement. They've had more than six months to figure it out.
Even with the addition of Wiggins, that still leaves the Ilitch Team down one from last year, and that's assuming Berg, Maze and Yee are still on deck, which hasn't been confirmed.
With 80 members in the Assembly and 40 in the Senate, Team Ilitch needs, at the very minimum, another 57 votes spread appropriately between the two houses of the legislature to ratify the agreements that would allow Ilitch to relocate two tribal casinos to Barstow, Calif. and pave the way for her to develop a mega-resort halfway between Los Angeles and Las Vegas. That's 57 votes in three months and their track record is 5 votes in eighteen months.
2007 Session
1. Senator Patricia Wiggins
2. Assemblywoman Patty Berg
3. Senator Roy Ashburn*
4. Assemblyman Bill Maze * ???
5. Assemblyman Leland Yee* ???
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* have received political campaign contributions from Team Ilitch
You may want to review these posts:
The Verifiable Truth: as predicted -- Ilitch Casino Team fails to produce any hopeful news
The Verifiable Truth: Press Release--2007 CA Legislation, reintroducing the Barstow Casinos plan previously rejected by an Assembly Committee
The Verifiable Truth: Re-introducing rejected Barstow Casino Bill, Ilitch finds herself even further behind
The Verifiable Truth: Senator Ashburn supports Casino in Barstow; ambivalent toward Big Lagoon or Los Coyotes, open to supporting other tribes
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