{"id":1755246,"date":"2022-08-02T08:46:35","date_gmt":"2022-08-02T12:46:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/platogaming.com\/?post_type=station&p=1755246"},"modified":"2022-08-02T12:41:37","modified_gmt":"2022-08-02T16:41:37","slug":"california-betting-battle-intensifies-as-tribes-brand-rivals-ad-shameful-despicable","status":"publish","type":"station","link":"https:\/\/platogaming.com\/plato-data\/california-betting-battle-intensifies-as-tribes-brand-rivals-ad-shameful-despicable\/","title":{"rendered":"California Betting Battle Intensifies as Tribes Brand Rivals\u2019 Ad \u201cShameful, Despicable\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Attacks get personal<\/h2>\n

The heavyweight battle for the crown of California online betting is entering the penultimate rounds with tribes and commercial sportsbooks going toe-to-toe in an increasingly personal media slugfest.<\/p>\n

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directly attacks California Tribal leaders.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

On Tuesday, tribes retaliated to a TV ad flighted by the commercial coalition named Yes on 27. In a press release, the tribal group described the ad as \u201cshameful, despicable,\u201d adding that it \u201cdirectly attacks California Tribal leaders.\u201d<\/p>\n

The sportsbook coalition, backed by BetMGM, DraftKings, and FanDuel, flighted the contentious ad at the beginning of the week. During the commercial, a narrator makes claims about tribal casinos, including: \u201cWealthy tribes with big casinos make billions while small tribes struggle in poverty.\u201d<\/p>\n

The ad directly referenced two leading tribal figures. It featured stills of chairman of Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Indians Kenneth Kahn against a Chumash Casino Resort background. Similarly, the ad showed vice chairwoman at Barona Band of Mission Indians Beth Glasco superimposed on an image of Barona Resort and Casino.<\/p>\n

Unified response<\/h2>\n

The Yes on 27 ad has sparked a unified counter-attack from California tribes. In a Tuesday press release from a coalition of tribes called No on 27, chairwoman of the Tribal Alliance of Sovereign Indian Nations (TASIN) Lynn Valbuena, said: \u201cThe out-of-state corporations behind this ad should<\/p>\n

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immediately pull it off the air and apologize to the tribal leaders.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Valbuena added that the \u201cprofit-driven\u201d corporates had \u201cstooped to a new low by minimizing the progress California tribal nations have made through tribal government gaming.\u201d<\/p>\n

Chairman of the Chemehuevi Indian Tribe Glenn Lodge, said: \u201cIt\u2019s shameful to attack tribes that have a proven track record of sharing hundreds of millions with limited and non-gaming tribes like mine.\u201d<\/p>\n

This isn\u2019t the first time the two opposing groups have locked heads over ads. On July 23, the No camp released an attack ad<\/a> that deemed the corporate coalition liars for airing ads featuring Native Americans claiming that Proposition 27 benefits tribes.<\/div>\n

All to play for<\/h2>\n

If it wins the November 8 ballot, which it qualified for in May by receiving more than 1.6 million signatures<\/a>, the commercial sportsbook-backed Proposition 27 will permit California-wide online betting with platforms linked to tribal casinos.<\/p>\n

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Proposition 26 would allow retail sports betting at tribal casinos<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Proposition 26 is the other sports betting initiative going to the ballot in November. Backed by most tribal operators, Proposition 26 would allow retail sports betting at tribal casinos and state-licensed horse-racing tracks.<\/p>\n

The ballot is just three months away, and its all to play for in the US\u2019s most populated jurisdiction. With so much to lose and gain for all antagonists, VegasSlotsOnline News <\/em>previously dubbed the titanic political struggle for control of the lucrative California online betting market the \u201cnew Gold Rush.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1755247,"template":"","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","type":"","auto_type":false,"post":"","stream":"","stream_url":"","waveform_data":[],"duration":0,"bpm":0,"downloadable":false,"download_url":"","purchase_title":"","purchase_url":"","post-count-all":0,"like_count":0,"download_count":0,"editor_note":"","copyright":"","captions":[]},"genre":[78],"artist":[110],"mood":[],"activity":[],"station_tag":[18744,18711,23287,7387,18723,18119,10610,177,18710,18750,27634,18732,3862,27635,27636,9445,18726,13258,18715,18719,18742,18712,18714,18729,5227,18749,5493,16767,12821,14115,3702,27637,18708],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/platogaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/station\/1755246"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/platogaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/station"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/platogaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/station"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platogaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platogaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1755247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/platogaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1755246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"genre","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platogaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/genre?post=1755246"},{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platogaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=1755246"},{"taxonomy":"mood","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platogaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mood?post=1755246"},{"taxonomy":"activity","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platogaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/activity?post=1755246"},{"taxonomy":"station_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platogaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/station_tag?post=1755246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}