"Sen. Dianne Feinstein warned Tuesday that California may need a new statewide initiative to halt the proliferation of off-reservation gambling if tribes continue to find ways around current regulations.
"What people believed were small gaming establishments have grown into a syndicate of Las Vegas-style establishments with little oversight,'' Feinstein said from her office in Washington, D.C.
In turn, she said, the lack of supervision has opened the door to corruption -- "skimming, fixing machines and the like.''
Feinstein's comments come as tribes in California and elsewhere are rushing through a loophole that emerged in pending Senate legislation that would limit off-reservation gambling.
Feinstein said she may now back a move on the Senate floor to block the rush of new tribes.
But she also said it may be time for Californians -- who voted in 1998 and 2000 to allow gambling on tribal lands -- to go back to the ballot to make clear that tribal lands don't refer to newly declared reservations."
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