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FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - In Downtown Fresno, crowds of dozens of section paper country leaders and employees gathered to protestation projected paper country regulations by California Attorney General Rob Bonta.
They acceptable up successful beforehand of Bonta's Fresno office, crossed from Fresno City Hall, to chant, clasp signs, and telephone for a authorities turnaround connected projected regulations that would prohibition blackjack-style games astatine registered cardrooms passim California. It would besides bounds different games that impact a trader and a player.
"If these regulations spell through, we're efficaciously retired of business," Kyle Kirkland, president of Fresno's Club One Casino and the California Gaming Association, said.
Kirkland, who spoke to america from the tract of the protest, joined workers from his squad and Clovis's 500 Club to telephone connected the authorities to reverse people connected the projected regulations. Calling for a intermission to the projected regulations.
"Would destruct 50% of our gross and frankly, each the jobs of the folks that are lasting determination today," Kirkland said.
"It would jeopardize the community, jeopardize families, you know, instrumentality distant our mode to instrumentality attraction of our families. It would beryllium devastating," said Daolank Sayachack, a Club One trader and trader coordinator.
Sayachack has been astatine Club One for implicit 20 years and says if she loses her occupation she won't cognize wherever to crook next.
"As a azygous mom, I enactment kids successful college, graduated college, and I'm inactive here," she said. "I emotion my occupation and you know, I'm conscionable present to supply for my family."
Many others present are successful the nonstop aforesaid vessel arsenic Sayachack.
They besides claim, Bonta has projected the regulations to fulfill the demands of tribal casinos, which would not beryllium impacted.
"We tin lone speculate," Kirkland said. "In the industry, there's an atrocious batch of tribal wealth that's flowing into governmental coffers, and the tribes person a beardown information to effort to enactment america retired of concern and widen their monopoly," helium said, arsenic a idiosyncratic dressed arsenic the 'Monopoly Man' tossed fake wealth displaying Bonta's face.
Kirkland says they are weighing their ineligible options with different paper rooms astir California.
YourCentralValley.com did scope retired to Bonta's office, which shared that thing is acceptable successful chromatic yet, with the rulemaking process ongoing.
