Editorial: Say no to urban Bay area casino

Friday, November 12, 2004  

"The plan for a glitzy casino at Point Molate in Richmond strikes the familiar notes: a landless tribe with dollar-sign dreams, a city with money problems and blue-sky promises of jobs and taxes.

A bayfront showplace is years off, given federal and state approvals needed for tribal gambling. But the bargain shows that 10 days after voters turned down two state propositions to expand gaming, the push for more slots and tables remains.

It's time for an unmistakable message that urban gaming won't fly. Not here, or anywhere else in the Bay Area.

California voters have twice approved Indian gambling, but each time with the promise the casinos would stay in rural areas or on existing reservations where jobs were few."

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EDITORIAL: No casino by the bay (The San Francisco Chronicle 11/12)