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California expansion may got to vote8 August 2007SACRAMENTO, California -- As reported by the Desert Sun: "Gaming expansion that will increase the local economy by hundreds of millions of dollars is at risk of being overturned in a proposed February ballot measure sponsored by a labor group and horse tracks. "Opponents of revised state agreements allowing four tribes - including the Palm Springs-based Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians - to expand gambling now may start collecting signatures, the secretary of state said Tuesday. "The opponents - a union that says the tribes' labor provisions are unfair and racetracks that say that slots limited to tribal casinos are cutting into the tracks' business - seek to use California's ballot measure process to spur voters to overturn the compacts. "...Unite HERE, a labor union, and the Bay Meadows Land Co., which owns two race tracks, have until Oct. 8 to gather the 433,971 signatures required by the state on each of four referenda to overturn legislation ratifying the agreements..." |