West Hollywood : Gambling Measure on Ballot
A legalized-gambling measure will go before West Hollywood voters on June 8.
The City Council on Tuesday approved an arrangement under which the owners of the Cavendish West Hollywood card club, who hope to expand into new quarters with limited betting, would pay up to $45,000 in election expenses.
The owners of the private bridge-and-rummy club want to set up a new 89-table club on La Brea Avenue and add pan, a betting game related to rummy. They paid the $45,000 deposit to the city on Tuesday.
Under the proposal, players would rent seats and bet against each other--not against the house, as in an actual casino. The club would pay the city a monthly fee of up to 14% of its revenues.
A more ambitious version of the measure, backed by the same group of investors, lost by a huge margin in 1990.
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