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For Bustamante, tribal gaming may be ace in the hole | Sacramento Bee
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For Bustamante, tribal gaming may be ace in the hole
By Steve Wiegand -- Bee Staff Writer
Published 2:15 a.m. PDT Tuesday, August 12, 2003

Unable to dig deeply into his own relatively shallow pockets, Lt. Gov. Cruz Bustamante may have to rely heavily on California's slot machines to feed his campaign in the Oct. 7 recall election.

Bustamante has long been a political favorite of some of the state's tribal gambling interests, which have become one of the largest sources of campaign contributions in the state.

And judging from his personal income-tax returns for the past five years, which he released Monday, Bustamante will need all the financial help he can get.

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