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COMMENT 171310	2011-05-09 07:26 AM
There are no laws that apply or are enforced to regulate Indian casinos. The federal governernment tried to impose some regulations called the Minimum Internal Control Standards (MICS). This was challenged by the Colorado Indian Tribes in a case decided in 2005 and the Court of Appeal held that there was NO AUTHORITY of the federal government to regualte class III Indian casinos (slot machines etc.) The Indian Gambling Act expected that such regulation would be imposed in the required tribal-state compacts. It wasn't! In fact deposed governor Davis executed weak virtually uneforceable, tax free compacts in exchange for all the money the then illegal Indian casinos gave his campaign for governor. Indian casinos are a lawless tax exempt anomaly and are virtualy unregulated and uninspected by any agency!
COMMENT 171291P	2011-05-08 10:01 PM
Slot machines are owned by the gaming companies that manufacture them. They are the property of companies like IGT, one of the biggest slot machine companies in the world. You bet your bootie they get inspected and if there is an irregularity, a casino (indian or vegas or otherwise) has to turn over the machine. It's people's business if they choose to go play slots anyplace and survival of the fittest to those who don't obey the first and only rule of being a gambler: don't bet what you can't afford or don't feel comfortable losing.
COMMENT 171291P	2011-05-08 09:56 PM
139, yeah LV slot machines and game tables are inspected and perfectly honest. I also have some beachside property in Las Vegas you might be interested in....lol.
FLICKA	2011-05-08 04:04 PM
I took care of a couple w/ early Alzhiemers. Their son took us to lunch at Andersons then the Casino (my only time). The old couple came out with $40-$60 each from the slots. I lost $5 right off the bat and quit. My neighbor goes often and seems to do quite well winning. We Europeans (Spanish) came and destroyed the Indian culture, and thousands upon thousands died. They were alloted the worst land in the valley for a reservation and later the govt. built houses for them so shoddy they didn't pass inspection so no permits to live in them. I figure it's high time they can live like the white man. If people want to throw money away gambling, it's their own foolish decision
COMMENT 171187	2011-05-08 11:19 AM
I remember growing up there in the mid 80's and early 90's.Most of Sagunto street was abandoned buildings. We had alot of fun playing in them and counting the bullet boles in the old tin ceiling of the trading post. You could sit in the shade next to the old Santa Cots market all day long and maybe see half a dozen cars go by if you were lucky. I liked it better that way!
COMMENT 171310	2011-05-08 06:37 AM
The Chumash casino is good for the Chumash who rake in profits paying $45,000 to each enrolled member every month, payable quarterly. I can't say it does much else for those that go there and play their unregulated, uninspected slot machines and lose money most of them cannot afford to lose. Unlike Las Vegas casinos that are strictly regulated and inspected for honesty, the legal anomaly of Indian law allows them to operate a casino and other businesses without complying with the hundreds of laws enacted to protect customers, workers and the community, even health and safety laws and Constitutional Rights to sue if injured, damaged or cheated while there. Laws that every other business must abide by. On top of that they pay no taxes for all of the public services and infrastucture they use daily at non-Indian taxpayers expense and still collect millions in federal welfare and grant money needed by Indians living in poverty..
COMMENT 171086	2011-05-07 03:41 PM
Ahh...nostalgia for the good ole days when the most mischievous thing the local Santa Ynez kids might do was to "soap the fountain'" (put detergent into the town's major water feature so that it sudsed over onto the surrounding areas).
COMMENT 171077P	2011-05-07 02:50 PM
Lovely review. Thank you. I'm saving for future valley visits.

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