California's politically powerful Indian casino tribes and the state's major charities have worked out a deal that would allow the charities to expand their bingo operations while preserving the tribes' constitutional monopoly on slot machines.
But the intensely lobbied compromise, which has been privately hammered out in the waning days of the legislative session and wedged into a state Senate bill Monday, appears to leave some small charities, particularly in Sacramento, out in the cold.
The deal would specifically ban charities from operating "electronic bingo" machines, which the tribes claim are slot machines and which have been a bone of legal contention for two decades. In return, the charities could link their games through venues such as simulcasting and offer much bigger prizes.
For more information, please see Steve Wiegand, Bingo deal could hurt small charities, SacBee.com, August 19, 2008.
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