For two years, Michael Malik failed to report $26,500 he gave to California Legislators

Two years after the fact, Detroit casino syndicator Michael J. Malik, Sr., has finally disclosed he contributed $26,500 to various California political campaign committees during the Fall '06 Elections.

When Malik filed his original campaign disclosures for the period covering 7.01.06 through 12.31.06, he reported making $0.00 contributions to California legislators and political committees during the second half of 2006. However, Malik's representations were blatantly false at the time.

TVT has previously reported that California's Fair Political Practices Commission (FPPC) has been conducting an ongoing investigation in Malik's failure to comply with California's political reform laws in disclosing political contributions and lobbying payments. And now it seems things are perhaps coming to a crescendo.

Because now, almost two years later, we see that on 12.23.08 Malik filed an amended disclosure report for the period 7.01.06 through 12.31.06 in which he finally lists contributions to 17 political committees in California totaling $26,500.

Among those Malik gave money to during the Fall '06 Election were a handful of supporters who were trying to help him advance a bill through the California Legislature that would have paved the way for Malik to develop and manage two Indian casinos in Barstow: State Senators Roy Ashburn, Wes Chesbro and Patricia Wiggins; and Assembly Members Patty Berg and Bill Maze.

This isn't the first time that Malik's conducted himself in such a cavalier manner. In October 2004, Malik's affiliate BarWest LLC sent $26,600 to the San Joaquin County GOP Victory Committee and failed to report that contribution in a timely manner as required under California law. Rather, BarWest LLC filed a disclosure for the period ended 12.31.04 more than 20 months later on 9.05.06. Shortly after that the FPPC disclosed it had been conducting an investigation into Malik's failure to report the 2004 contribution and found BarWest (Malik) guilty on two counts of violating California election laws; and Malik paid a fine of $6,500.

That action by the FPPC in the Fall of 2006 seemed to have little impact on Malik, because at the very same time he was being reprimanded by the FPPC, we now have proof he was again ignoring disclosure requirements. And then in January 2007 he had the audacity to submit a report indicating he had not made any political contributions in California during the second half of 2006 although we now learn he contributed $26,500.

Given that Malik's finally disclosed the truth about his 2006 political contributions, it's likely that the FPPC will be concluding its investigation into Malik's campaign finance and lobbying practices soon.

Author of Barstow casino bill not hopeful

For the second time since 2005, it appears a bill to approve twin Indian Casino resorts in Barstow has failed to win legislative support in Sacramento.

Senator Pat Wiggins (D-Eureka), principal author of SB 157, has indicated to the Eureka Times Standard that the bill is all but dead.

Eureka Times Standard
04.14.07

Casinos, Klamath, truck lengths, rail revival all on Wiggins' priority list

"...But the fate of another agreement, between the state and the Big Lagoon Rancheria for a casino in Barstow, doesn't look so rosy, at least for the time being, she said. ..."

SB 157 would ratify gaming compacts allowing two Indian tribes (Big Lagoon Rancheria and Los Coyotes Band of Cahuilla and Cupeno Indians) and their Detroit casino developer Barwest to build side-by-side, off-reservation casino resorts in Barstow, Calif.

Wiggins and project proponents held a press conference in January to announce the introduction of SB 157.

At that time there were two other legislators who had joined Wiggins, Senator Roy Ashburn (R-Bakersfield) and Assemblywoman Patty Berg (D-Santa Rosa).

Since then, proponents have failed to produce any other legislators willing to publicly endorse the bill. SB 157 was intended as a tool to win legislative ratification of gaming compacts the Governor's aides had negotiated in 2005.

Proponents have failed to produce any other sign that SB 157 had been making progress; instead they have joined with labor to attack compact agreements moving through the legislature for several established gaming tribes. Those compacts would allow expanded gaming at several existing locations on current reservation lands and would produce substantial new revenues for the State of California..

Another bill, SB 168, introduced in 2006 and authored by former Senator Wesley Chesbro, Wiggins' predecessor, failed to make it out of committee as well. Two legislators who supported that bill in the last session have failed to announce their support for SB 157: Assemblyman Bill Maze and Senator Leland Yee.

Mrs. Marian Ilitch, wife of Detroit Tigers baseball team owner Mike Ilitch, and Michael J. Malik, Sr. are the principals behind the Barwest syndication.

Re-introducing rejected Barstow Casino Bill, Ilitch finds herself even further behind

Yeserday's press conference is just more of the same shallow theater created by Marian Ilitch's Michigan marketing team. Here's the other side of the story ...

Marian Ilitch had four sponsors for legislation (SB 168) in 2006 intended to win ratification of a tentative agreement that would allow her the unprecedented privilege to build and manage two off-reservation Indian casinos in Barstow, Calif.

They were Senators Wesley Chesbro and Roy Ashburn along with Assemblymembers Patty Berg and Bill Maze. Their districts represented the Big Lagoon Rancheria and the community of Barstow respectively.

That bill was rejected in an Assembly Committee by a vote of 7-to-2. And failed to gain any traction in the California Senate.

By the end of the 2006 session Team Ilitch could count two other legislators in addition to the original four sponsors as supporters -- Assemblymembers Jay LaSuer and Leland Yee, the two “yes” votes in the Assembly committee.

Yesterday the Ilitch backed Detroit casino syndicate announced they would re-introduce the previously rejected legislation as SB 157. After six months there is really very little they report that's new. They are further behind at the start of this legislative session than they were at the start of last year's failed effort.

This go-round they only have three sponsors: Senators Roy Ashburn and Particia Wiggins (she replaced Wes Chesbro); and Assemblymember Patty Berg. Barwest managing honcho Michael Malik showed his appreciation to all three legislators by making contributions to their political campaign committees in the final weeks of the Fall 2006 election.

There was no reference at the media fanfare to Assemblymember Bill Maze or Assemblyman turned state Senator Leland Yee; two who had backed the failed legislation in 2006. Apparently Assemblyman Bill Maze did not re-up as a co-author.

Unfortuantely the terms of two others who supported the legislation in 2006 expired and Jay LaSuer and Wes Chesbro were prohibited from seeking re-election under term limits. Barwest's Malik rewarded Maze, Yee and Chesbro with contributions to their political funds last summer.

So where do things stand as compared to 2006:

• AUTHORS - One less co-author. They have three sponsors this year for SB 157; in 2006 they had four (SB 168). No one truly new.




• LEGISLATIVE SUPPORTERS - Lost 3 supporters (50%). They have three known supporters this year; possibly five if Maze and Yee remain publicly supportive but they did not participate in this weeks announcement; in 2006 they had six supporters by the end of the legislative session. No one new.

• LOBBYISTS - Added one new lobbyist. Last year they employed three lobbying firms at a cost of $400,000; this year they’ve added a fourth lobbyist, labor leader Jack Gribbon who is also political director of UNITEHERE.
  

Previously it took them 12 months to round up six supporters -- that's one every two months. They need 21 Senators and 41 Assemblymembers.

At their previous pace, it would take ten years to line up the necessary support needed to ratify the two unorthodox Casino agreements.

According to Big Lagoon Tribal Chairman, they only have three months.

Could it be any more clear? ... This is about Detroit casino syndicators standing in the way of others and guarding what one reader calls the "High Desert gaming franchise."

Waging a full-scale war hasn't made any progress for Ilitch and she's apparently failed to enter into any kind of dialogue or negotiation with opponents.

Detroit's pigheadedness and those who have marched in lock-step behind the pied piper will ultimately cost Barstow any hope of economic prosperity in the near future. In the end, several struggling communities within California's 34th Assembly/18th Senate Districts will be the losers. The few who are under contract or receive "stipends" will have been the only beneficiaries.


You may also 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: Bottom of the ninth and Ilitch's Barstow Casinos scheme is down by at least 57 votes
The Verifiable Truth: Legislative Score Card
The Verifiable Truth: Senator Ashburn supports casinos in Barstow; is ambivalent about Big Lagoon and Los Coyotes Tribes
The Verifiable Truth: Political cash for those who author SB 157 - the Barstow Casinos bill

Bottom of the ninth and Ilitch's Barstow Casinos scheme is down by at least 57 votes

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
1. Senator Wesley Chesbro
2. Assemblywoman Patty Berg
3. Senator Roy Ashburn *
4. Assemblyman Bill Maze *
5. Assemblyman Leland Yee *
6. Assemblyman Jay La Suer

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.


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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

Barstow casino scheme has stalled since 2005; aging Schwarzenegger agreements set to expire soon absent swift ratification

Last year, Marian Ilitch’s Detroit-based casino syndication team vowed they would win approval of their scheme for dual Indian casinos in Barstow when the California Legislature reconvened this month in Sacramento. In reality they're no closer than they were a year ago, they have no measureable progress to report and some would argue they faced a major setback when Senator Wes Chesbro, the author of legislation to approve their agreements and the only passionate supporter of their cause, was termed out of office last fall. The aging agreements they negotiated with Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger in 2005 are set to expire this legislative session if they aren't approved by both the Assembly and Senate soon.

In lieu of anything substantive to signal real progress in the California Legislature, the best the Ilitch team could do this past week was issue press releases filled with "spin" in an attempt to convince reporters and others that they are committed and making progress; and pose a veiled threat to the legislature.

As the 2007 legislative session gets underway, Ilitch and company find themselves at the same place they were a year ago – holding aging agreements signed by Schwarzenegger in 2005, absent an author or the introduction of legislation to serve as the vehicle for approval of those agreements and without crucial public commitments from any additional Sacramento lawmakers to support their scheme.

Among other triggers, the agreements Schwarzenegger has autographed are of no value unless ratified by the legislature soon. Failing to win ratification last year, the Ilitch crew has just months to make it happen.

The Ilitch organization, its two tribal partners and three Sacramento lobbying firms have failed to make any progress of their own, but have successfully blocked any other parties from making progress on alternative plans for casino development in Barstow – the halfway point between Los Angeles and Las Vegas.

Wes Chesbro, former state Senator, the author legislation to approve their Barstow scheme in the 2006 session. Chesbro’s term expired in 2006 and term limits prohibited him from seeking re-election. Ilitch and her Native American partners, the Big Lagoon Rancheria and Los Coyotes Bands of Indians, lost their only true legislative champion and were left without an author for legislation.

Including Chesbro, the Ilitch casino syndication had only won public commitments of support for their agreements from six legislators. Three of those were obligatory “co-authors” of Chesbro’s legislation because their districts, like Chesbro’s, include parties to the agreements (either the City of Barstow or Big Lagoon Rancheria). Two others (Assemblymen La Suer and Yee) indicated their support publicly after Chesbro and his original co-authors introduced the legislation.

The agreements were heard by the Senate Governmental Organization (GO) Committee last March (click to view). It was clear at the hearing Senators did not approve of the agreement but rather than take a public vote and sink the agreements at that time, the GO Committee concluded the hearing without any action.

The legislative time clock was ticking and absent any progress in the Senate, lobbyists for the Ilitch team worked with Chesbro to have legislation shepherding the agreements gutted and the agreements slipped into other legislation in the Assembly at the eleventh hour desperately hoping to find support their. The Assembly GO Committee scheduled a hearing on the agreements late in June and unlike their colleagues in the Senate, the Assembly committee members voted to reject the agreements.

ASSOCIATED PRESS
12:22 p.m. June 29, 2006

BARSTOW – An Assembly committee rejected proposed side-by-side Indian casinos by so-called reservation-shopping tribes hoping to lure Las Vegas-bound gamblers off Interstate 15 in Barstow.

Wednesday's vote by the Assembly Governmental Organizational Committee likely dooms Barstow casinos for the Los Coyotes Band of Cahuilla and Cupeno Indians of San Diego County and the Big Lagoon Rancheria of Humboldt County.

The chairman of the Assembly GO Committee, Jerome Horton, (now also termed out of office) attempted to broker a workable compromise in July/August with the various Native American concerns(San Manuel, Big Lagoon, Chemehuevi and others). Reportedly the tribes came to an understanding that would have taken Ilitch out of the driver’s seat but brought an end to inter-tribal struggles.

That didn’t settle well with Ilitch and her team pleaded with Schwarzenegger’s staff to hold off on agreeing to any new proposal. In effect, legislators and the Native American interests (including Ilitch partners) were prepared to move the proposal forward and resolve the lawsuit between the state and Big Lagoon but it was the Detroit-based Ilitch gaming interests that blocked progress.

The Ilitch team tried unsuccessfully to have the Assembly rules suspended last summer in order to pursue other options for approval in the closing weeks of the 2006 legislative session. One of Ilitch’s Indian partners resorted to theatrics and staged a hunger fast on the lawn of the state capitol. That generated media interest but failed to win any new supporters in the legislature.

RGT Online - Daily News
August 17, 2006

SACRAMENTO, California – As reported by the Desert Sun: "An American Indian band that hopes to build a casino in Barstow is attempting to get on the fast track.

"The Los Coyotes Band of Cahilla and Cupeno Indians began a fast at the state Capitol that will continue until the legislature ratifies a gaming agreement, or compact, according to Tom Shields, public relations agent for the band. In a press release, he wrote that compacts for the band and the Big Lagoon Rancheria Indians, who hope to build a dual casino in Barstow, are stalled.

"Shields said in a telephone interview that the fast began Wednesday after noon with three or four band members. Other band members and supporters will join the group in the coming days, he said. Some will fast on the Capitol lawn until the compacts get approved, but others will fast a day or so at a time, he said.

"…The state Assembly Government Organization Committee voted 7-0 to turn down the Los Coyotes/Big Lagoon compact in June…"

And now, there’s nothing other than what Ilitch’s PR team has distributed to suggest there is any thing new, any real hope in 2007. To the contrary, as long as Marian Ilitch and her "bulldogs" (as one former partner called them) stand in the way, Barstow looks like it will come up empty handed.

The terms of Senator Chesbro and Assemblyman La Suer expired last year and California's term limits laws prohibited them from running for re-election; that leaves just four of the six supporters still in office.

It should also be noted that Assemblyman Leland Yee accepted $3,300 from Marian Ilitch's partner Michael J. Malik, Sr. on June 4/5, 2006; weeks before his June 28, 2006 vote in the Assembly Governmental Organization Committee to support the Compacts. The Committee voted as a whole to reject the agreements.

2006 Legislative Proponents
1. Senator Roy Ashburn (R-18) [1]
2. Assemblyman Bill Maze (R-34) [2]
3. Senator Wesley Chesbro (D-2) [3]
4. Assemblywoman Patty Berg (D-1) [4]
** ↓support after bill introduced↓ **
5. Assemblyman Jay La Suer (R-77) [5]
6. Assemblyman Leland Yee (D-12) [6]

[1] Represents Barstow, co-author SB 168
[2] Represents Barstow, co-author SB 168
[3] Represents Humboldt County (Big Lagoon Reservation), author SB 168
[4] Represents Humboldt County (Big Lagoon Reservation), principal co-author SB 168
[5] Represents Eastern San Diego County
[6] Represents Bay Area; Speaker Pro Tem (card club supported/opposes Indian gaming)

(For more background)

Also for reference, available at Governor Schwarzenegger's web site:
* Big Lagoon Rancheria Compact
* Settlement Between the State of California & Big Lagoon Rancheria
* Los Coyotes Band of Cahuilla and Cupeno Indians Compact

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The Verifiable Truth: In a move right out of the Ilitch Bay Mills playbook, CA's Big Lagoon acquires 16 acres, increases leverage
The Verifiable Truth:Ilitch & Company report spending $2.42 million lobbying for East Coast casino expansions; just $80k for Barstow plan
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Tribe's doing what its Los Coyotes Neighbors describe as impossible

The Santa Ysabel Tribe is located in northeastern San Diego County just 10 miles from the Los Coyotes Reservation but the leaders of the two tribe are attacking their futures from opposite corners of the ring.

Seasoned journalist Chet Barfield regularly reports on San Diego's 18 Indian tribes for the San Diego Union Tribune covering Indian Country and Indian gaming in the County with the highest concentration of Indian casinos in the United States. Several years ago he wrote several stories on the hostilities that existed between waring factions on the Los Coyotes Reservation. A year ago he wrote:

Far-flung members of North County tribe are returning, with their hearts on the reservation and their eyes off it

By Chet Barfield
UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER

..."We're headed in a new direction," tribal Chairman Johnny Hernandez said. "We want to make this a reservation our people are proud of and make the land itself proud of the people who are on it."

Pride has long been scarce on this 15,500-acre reservation 65 miles northeast of San Diego. Its forested mountains abound with beauty, but its people are among the poorest and most oppressed in the region.

Over generations, families fled the reservation, mostly for economic survival. Today more than two-thirds of the tribe's 770 members are scattered throughout California and other states.

But lately, more and more are coming to tribal meetings, from Orange County, Los Angeles or farther. Some are even moving back to the reservation, as Ponchetti did in 1984 and Hernandez did in 2000.

What's bringing them back? The push for a casino? Opportunities for free land? Family connections? A voice in tribal decisions?

According to dozens of members, all those factors play a part and fuel frictions between old and new thinking, between factions on and off the reservation.

For many, however, the pull comes from something deeper.

"A lot of them wanted to come back to their roots to find out who the hell they were," said Ponchetti, 67, whose father was a prominent tribal leader in the 1950s. "They were Indian, but they didn't know what that meant." ... (Full
Story)

Based on this story, one has to wonder if Governor Schwarzenegger, Dan Kolkey, Marian Ilitch, Michael Malik, Barstow Mayor Lawrence Dale, and legislators like Roy Ashburn and Bill Maze have ever been to northeastern San Diego County. More startling is that the Governor's staff didn't appear to be verifying anything they were told by Marian Ilitch's team pushing the proposal for dual casinos in Barstow, Calif. Everything we've heard to date is contradicted by this story of a Tribe that's turning lemons into lemonade.


You may also want to review these posts:
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The Verifiable Truth: Google Earth Maps make it clear why Detroit Casino Syndicators won't settle for anything other than their Barstow location

Big Lagoon Chairman, Marian Ilitch up to old tricks; but threats and dishonesty haven't made progess in the past.

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Big Lagoon Rancheria

January 8, 2007

For Immediate Release!

Contact: Virgil Moorehead

(707) 826‐2079

BIG LAGOON ACQUIRES 16 ADDITIONAL ACRES IN HUMBOLDT CO., NEW PARCEL IS ADJACENT TO TRIBAL RANCHERIA

EUREKA – Big Lagoon Rancheria announced Monday the purchase of 16 additional acres along the majestic North Coast of California, adjacent to the tribe’s 20‐acre ancestral lands of Big Lagoon in Humboldt County.

According to Virgil Moorehead, Big Lagoon Tribal spokesman, the Tribe is considering various uses for the property, including the restoration of the original village where the Tribe istorically settled. The Tribe will consider filing a land into trust application with the U.S. Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Indian Affairs.

In September 2005, the Big Lagoon Rancheria signed a compact with Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger that allows the Tribe to build a casino in the City of Barstow (San Bernardino County) in partnership with the Los Coyotes Band. As part of the compact, the Big Lagoon Rancheria also signed a settlement agreement with the State of California that calls on the Tribe to forgo gaming development on the Tribe’s Ancestral land along the scenic Northern California coastline, in exchange for a gaming project in Barstow.

The Tribe narrowly lost its bid for the Barstow project in the California legislature during the 2006 legislative session. It plans to support the re‐introduction of enabling legislation this year to ratify its compact.

Under the terms of the compact, the California lawmakers must ratify the compact with legislation in 2007 or the settlement agreement with the state would be invalidated, forcing a court mandated settlement.

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With this press release, Virgil Moorehead's proven once again that he'll say anything or do anything. Threats and dishonesty are hardly the way to re-open negotiations with a California Legislature you failed to develop credibility with in the last legislative session.

Moorehead's claims that his Tribe "narrowly" lost its bid to have a Barstow casino approved during the 2006 CA Legislative Session is outright dishonesty. By writing it in the press release and distributing it to reporters, he's hoping that they won't know any better and they'll reprint his Spin as the California Legislature reconvenes.

The truth is Moorhead, his partners at the Los Coyotes Reservation in San Diego, the Detroit casino syndicators driving Moorehead and three Sacramento lobbying firms who were paid at least $350,000 - $500,000 last year failed miserably and were only able to get public commitments on the record from 6 members out of the combined 120 legislators who make up the Senate and Assembly.

Yes, a year and a half after Governor Schwarzenegger signed the agreements, Marian Ilitch's team and Moorehead were only able to round up six votes on the record. Four of those were onboard when the legislation was introduced last year, only two members joined the bandwagon after the agreements started to get a public airing.

The most passionate and committed champion of Big Lagoon's plan, Senator Wes Chesbro (his district included Humboldt County), was termed out of the legislature in the Fall. Moorehead and Marian Ilitch's pack of lobbyists haven't indicated who, if anyone would shepherd their plan through the legislature now and they've had four months to figure it out. That's not a good sign. This is exactly where they were a year ago ... a signed compact sitting in limbo with no sponsors in the legislature and no legislators committed to moving it through committee.

Of the five committed members remaining in the legislature, it's unclear if they're still on board with Moorehead; although 4 of the 5 represent districts serving Barstow, Los Coyotes Reservation or Big Lagoon Rancheria as one might expect. The five who publicly committed their votes last year include:

1. Senator Roy Ashburn (R-18)
2. Assemblyman Bill Maze (R-34)
3. Assemblywoman Patty Berg (D-1)
4. Assemblyman Jay La Suer (R-77)
5. Assemblyman Leland Yee (D-12)

You may also want to review these posts:

The Verifiable Truth: Big Lagoon Rancheria purchases 16 acres
The Verifiable Truth: Big Lagoon Rancheria trust plan under fire
The Verifiable Truth: In a move right out of the Ilitch Bay Mills playbook, CA's Big Lagoon acquires 16 acres, increases leverage
The Verifiable Truth: Ilitch’s Barstow schemes failed to make any substantive progress in Sacramento since 2005; aging agreements with Gov. Schwarzenegger expire soon
The Verifiable Truth:Overview of Ilitch CA Lobbying Expenses