California voters in November will have the rare opportunity to vote on a tribal gaming compact and overturn the action of the legislature and governor, which have approved of the pact with the North Fork Rancheria of Mono Indians.
Proposition 48 would repeal the state tribal gaming compact between the Golden State and the North Fork Rancheria of Mono Indians, who want to build the state’s first off-reservation casino.
The federal Bureau of Indian Affairs has already put the land, which is 36 miles from the tribe’s traditional homeland, into trust. However, the casino watchdog group Stand Up for California, backed by some gaming tribes that would feel the heat from such a casino, including Table Mountain Rancheria and the Picayune Rancheria of the Chukchansi Indians, qualified the repeal for the ballot.
