Proposition 27, the California initiative backed by commercial operators to legalize digital sports betting, continues to take a beating from many of the state’s tribes.
On Thursday, the lobbyist group Californians for Tribal Sovereignty and Safe Gaming held an online press conference during which Chairman Daniel Salgado of the Cahuilla Band of Indians stated that tribal sovereignty and self-determination will be at risk should the proposition pass.
“From our tribe’s perspective, it hits on a couple of notes – tribal sovereignty and self-determination,” he said. “It takes away a tribe’s sovereign right to choose. We look at how many people are actually going to participate.”
