“It’s not payback. It’s not buying a vote. It’s none of those things. There’s no there, there, OK? It’s supporting someone that we’ve had a longstanding relationship with.”
— Tauri Bigknife, attorney general for the Viejas Band of Kumeyaay Indians, which runs a San Diego County casino, on a $60,000 ad buy backing South Bay Assemblyman Evan Low’s run for Congress. A spokesman for Low, who voted for a bill to let casino tribes sue competing card rooms that are tax producers for some Bay Area cities, said the tribe acted on its own and Low voted “in the best interest of his district and the state.”
