With the concentration and growth of Indian casino political power after the February elections, an interesting change of power is taking place in Sacramento. The most powerful lobbying union in the Capitol for over a decade, the California Corrections Peace Officers Association (CCPOA) has lost some of its muscle in recent years, as a Governor (Schwarzenegger) was elected without their support and a Democrat-controlled Legislature has sought other methods of criminal punishment outside of prison.
Into the gap come the Indian casinos who recently won a major victory in the February 5th elections, which allowed them (well, some of them) to increase the size of their casinos, thereby increasing their revenues. Just last week they managed to get a bill passed by the Legislature that gave tribal leaders greater powers to remove individuals from their reservations. This is seen as new way of "disenrolling" tribe members who disagree with leadership on the reservation.
Link: http://www.sacbee.com/111/story/778909.html
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