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SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA GAMING GUIDE
October 2006
October 2006 Gaming News (Continued)
Welcome Home Trip Turns into $127,025 MegaJackpot® Win for MWother of U.S. Soldier
hen her son returned from a one-year assignment in Iraq, Virginia Zamora decided to make the trip to San Diego to welcome him home. e happy homecoming became even happier when the Albuquerque resident hit a $127,025 MegaJackpot®
on September 5th on an I Love Lucy® slot at Viejas Casino.
“We were there to enjoy a prime rib dinner and decided to kill some time playing the games,” said 53- year-old Ms. Zamora. “I always enjoyed the ‘I Love Lucy’ show, so the game brought back some good memories.”
STtate Misses Out on Gaming Windfall
compacts that would have added over $22 billion to the state fund.
e compacts, some of which are still pending, would allow ve of Southern California’s largest gaming tribes—the Sycuan Band of the Kumeyaay Nation of San Diego County, the Pechanga Band of Luiseño Indians of Temecula, the Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians of Palm Springs, the San
he California State legislature could not
e lucky winner said she plans to use her jackpot winnings to go back to school and, as a military mom, to take a trip to Guam to visit sites highlighting its proud military history. Ms. Zamora is pictured on page 30.
Manuel Band of Mission Indians of San Bernardino pass measures to revise tribal gaming County and the Morongo Band of Mission Indians of
and up to 5,000 slots. In the nal vote on August 31st, the measure fell six votes short, 35–23 due to objections from Democratic legislators who wanted
more favorable labor union provisions.
e other four compacts were shelved without a
public hearing in the Legislature. ey remain valid agreements that lawmakers can take up when they return brie y in December, or when they reconvene full-time in January 2007.
Riverside County—to add up to a combined 22,500 slot machines over the next 23 years in exchange of paying the state more than $22 billion over the life of the compacts through 2030, according to estimates by the governor’s administration. All of the compacts were negotiated by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and tribal leaders.
Lawmakers voted on only one of the agreements, the Agua Caliente compact for a possible third casino
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