Today in the mail I got a fancy and expensive looking flyer from the No on I-892 folks AKA the indian tribes...Part of the $5 million they are pouring into the campaign to defeat it.
Here are some of the quotes from it that make me sick considering who it comes from:
Gambling will bring more crime, drugs, gangs and violence to our neighborhoods. ( Is this the case with the indian casinos in our neighborhoods already?)
I-892 legalizes "electronic scratch ticket machines". Electronic scratch ticket machines are video slot machines. (DUH!!! When the tribes brought these machines to their casinos they called them the same thing...AND they have them now AND they are already legalized BUT only for the indians.)
And my favorite: " We do not believe in gambling in our neighborhoods" BS!!! They are the only ones with these machines and they must believe in them as long as they have a monopoly.
And of course as we have said before this monopoly bring in hundreds of millions of dollars and it is ALL tax free.
The tribes control your fisheries now....Do you want them to control our government next? The millions they are throwing at this erroneous campaign is just a peak under the tent....Watch if they defeat this initiative and see if they don't expand gambling that they supposedly oppose.
VOTE YES on I-892 and generate hundreds of millions of dollars in taxes to lower property taxes and level the playing field for once.