These three San Diego County tribes, like others throughtout California have only been authorized to conduct modest gaming operations and such activity has been restricted to their existing reservations.
Rather than no casino at all, leaders of these three tribes (some facing greater hardship and challenge than Indians at the Big Lagoon Rancheria and Los Coyotes Reservations) have opt'ed to develop modest on-reservation casinos with less than 350 slot machines in order to improve economic circumstance for their people. Other tribes throughout California are doing the same thing. In limiting the number of gaming devices, these tribes continue to participate in the rewards of California's Revenue Sharing Trust Fund (RSTF); each tribe gets $1.1 million per year through that program funded by the tribes with larger casinos.
But the Big Lagoon Rancheria and the Los Coyotes Band of Cahuilla and Cupeno Indians want the legislature to grant them some favored status and approve unprecedented and unorthodox agreements that would allow them to develop casinos, seven times larger, off their reservations at a location thought to be more lucrative because it has through traffic of 60,000,000 cars per year. Granting such privilege to these two tribes isn't fair or equitable; nor justified.
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