Fair and Balanced: North Fork Rancheria Urges Voters to SUPPORT Prop. 48

We've posted about why we don't think the North Fork Rancheria should get OFF Reservation gaming, here's their point of view.  Fails to note that this is NOT what the CA voters intended.

Maryann McGovran, the vice chairwoman of the North Fork Rancheria of Mono Indians, urges voters to support Proposition 48 and ratify the tribe's Class III gaming compact:

The North Fork Rancheria of Mono Indians near Yosemite — with nearly 2,000 citizens, one of the largest federally recognized tribes in California — has been striving for decades to restore its tribal status and reclaim a fraction of their rightful lands.

Similarly, the Wiyot Tribe near Humboldt Bay has been working to achieve economic self-sufficiency while protecting environmentally sensitive coastal lands from development.

Prop. 48 accomplishes both. It creates thousands of good jobs in high-employment areas and provides hundreds of millions of dollars in new revenues to state and local governments, law enforcement, schools and non-gaming tribes.

That’s why Prop. 48 is strongly supported by Gov. Brown, the California Democratic Party, state building trades, state firefighters, state Chambers of Commerce, local peace officers, and both the city and county of Madera (where the project will be built).