Newsom Asks Tribal Leaders To Not Reopen Casinos

Heap Big Pile of Buffalo Shit, Pale Face! Stuff It … !

Source: The Daily Wire

California Governor Gavin Newsom has written a letter to Native American tribal leaders who plan to reopen casinos in the San Diego County area asking them to reconsider and wait until stage three of his reopening plan.

According to the Los Angeles Times, Newsom recognizes that the casinos do not fall under his jurisdiction, but emphasized in the letter that the coronavirus pandemic “remains a serious threat for all Californians.”

I understand that some tribal governments are planning on reopening casinos on their lands. This deeply concerns me, and I urge tribal governments to reconsider and instead make those determinations based on how they align with the current local public health conditions and the statewide stage of reopening.”

Gavin Newsom
Mini-Dictator Kalifornia

“I am not asking that tribal governments receive authorization from the state or local governments prior to moving forward with reopening or suggesting that tribal casinos remain closed indefinitely, in the spirit of sovereign-to-sovereign engagement,” to wait until areas next to their land reach stage three of his reopening plan.

Gavin Newsom
Mini-Dictator Kalifornia

Under the governor’s four phase plan, “higher risk work places” like gyms, movie theaters, and salon cannot reopen until phase three. Newsom recently teased phase three may be as little as one month away, and San Diego has just started to reopen under the phase two guidelines.

Despite the California governor’s guidelines, the Times reports that three San Diego area casinos have told customers that they plan to reopen over the next week with a focus on safety. Sycuan Casino Resort, for example, will stagger available slot machines and limit card tables to three players, and the Viejas Casino & Resort said it will enforce physical distancing and conduct temperature checks before entry.

Outside of California, some casinos have been preparing for experimental gambling practices that go even further, such as putting up shield guards at poker tables.

Yet, inside San Diego County, other businesses that have been asked to wait until stage three have also grown impatient.

Lou Uridel, a gym owner in San Diego, reopened his business on Thursday, less than a week after he was arrested for defying the county’s public health order and opening up the gym to guests, according to The San Jose Mercury News.

“We lost a third of our membership that took us a year and a half to get. If we waited, with the bills mounting, we weren’t going to be able to recover.”

Lou Uridel
Gym Owner in San Diego

Bonnie Stauffer, a spokesperson for the Oceanside Police Department in San Diego County, told the news agency that Uridel will continue to receive daily citations, which amount to $1,000 or 90 days in jail per violation.

“I don’t know what other enforcement can be done at this point,”

Bonnie Stauffer
Spokesperson – Oceanside PD

Newsom Asks Tribal Leaders To Not Reopen Casinos

Jethro