"Meantime, the vice-chairman of San Diego's Los Coyotes, Shane Chapparosa, told reporters that his tribe has now begun separate negotiations with the governor's office for a solo Barstow casino. The governor's office won't confirm whether that's the case."
But consider the following:
- Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger previously turned down a proposal to build a stand alone Los Coyotes tribal casino in Barstow in Spring 2004.
- Further, Governor Schwarzenegger's negotiator told a Senate Governmental Organization committee hearing in April 2006 that Los Coyotes would not qualify for a stand alone agreement based on the Governor's May 2005 proclomation for gaming.
- The Department of Interior's Bureau of Indian Affairs currently has an Environmental Impact Study underway for the larger joint casino site. Presumably that process would need to start all over.
- Governor Schwarzenegger's office has previously had a "confidentiality" policy with tribes it's negotiating with banning them from making statement like Chapparosa made at yesterday's press conference in Sacramento.
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