“We slaughtered the Native Americans in California and we treated them very badly so in a way it feels like not only can I have gambling but I can pay reparations to the Native Americans by letting them make money off it.”
— Menlo College political science professor Melissa Michelson, on why two November ballot measures to allow sports gambling are billed as benefitting tribes. A recent poll on one of them, Proposition 27, showed it losing badly.