Catawbas get calm urge for bingo bill - 2004-02-01
Behind the scenes in the General Assembly, legislators and lobbyists for the Catawba Indian tribe are working on a new state law to permit the Catawbas to establish a huge electronic bingo casino on I-95.
However, the governor is leery of altering that agreement in any way that would “open the door to full-scale casino gambling.”
Meanwhile, a coalition of anti-gambling forces, which helped crush the state’s $3 billion-a-year video poker industry four years ago, is attempting to stop the Catawbas.
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