RE: [ba-poker] Casino San Pablo on Steroids

["Dave Horwitz" <dhorwitz(deleted the rest)>]

owner-ba-poker(deleted the rest) wrote:
> Dave Horwitz wrote:
>> I've been hearing some bizarre lobbying on the radio with
>> respect to this. The current blurb by the opposition sounds
>> like they are opposed because of the huge *traffic* problem
>> it is supposed to create... something like "traffic in the
>> Bay Area is bad enough. This will make the problem worse by
>> orders of magnitude."  Then a side implication that there will
>> be slot machines everywhere. Only subdued mentions of increased
>> crime and the usual opposition. What gives?
> 
> That's a slightly different issue.  That lobbying is against a ballot
> proposition that would allow existing card clubs and race tracks to
> operate slot machines.  Its opposed by existing Indian casinos, which
> aren't located in the Bay Area.   That's probably why their
> argument is more in terms of casinos in the Bay Area being bad in
terms
> of traffic, etc., rather than casinos and gambling being bad
generally.

DING! That makes a lot of sense. I was going "what????" 
every time I heard this spot. Somehow I didn't differentiate
the big casino from the slot bill. I don't listen very closely
but I don't think the news has made a big point of them being
separate issues either.

-Quick