Indian casinos lobby California state legislature to ban electronic bingo machines, and win. Big business trumps freedom.

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California has banned electronic bingo machines, effective Feb 1, 2009, because they are “too close to slot machines”. And why is that a problem? Because it competes with Indian casinos. The casinos have lobbied heavily to the state legislature to attack freedom and the state legislature obeyed.

“It’s going to be a very immediate and devastating thing that takes place tonight, when we’re not allowed to raise funds using electronic bingo machines,” said Topo Padilla, President of the El Camino High School Booster Club, who says the machines helped raise tens of thousands of dollars for the school’s football team and other programs.

Corporate communists have won another victory against freedom.

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