California’s casino-owning Native American tribes have flexed their political power yet again, getting legislation passed that directly attacks their business rivals and protects their own interests.

The Democrat-led state legislature approved Assembly Bill 831 , which bans companies offering certain types of online sweepstakes that tribes argue are a threat to their exclusive rights to gambling in the West Coast state.

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The bill’s smooth passage — not a single one of California’s 120 lawmakers voted against it — underscores the trib

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