And now:Ish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: From: "Victor Rocha" Chippewas want casinos just for them http://www.freep.com/news/politics/qhugh6.htm July 6, 1999 A BIG DEAL? Probably not. But was it hypocritical? Maybe. Anyway, it turns out the hotly anti-Detroit-casinos Coalition to Repeal E, based in Flint, raised and spent $451,000 in last year's failed attempt to block casinos in the city ...every cent contributed by the hotly pro-gambling Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe that runs the Soaring Eagle Casino & Resort in Mt. Pleasant. Hmmm. It was no secret, of course, that for competitive reasons, the Soaring Eagle folks were opposed to Detroit casinos. And, indeed, news stories last year reported that petition signatures were being collected at the Soaring Eagle Casino itself to try to get the anti-Detroit-casino proposal on the ballot (it failed for lack of sufficient signatures). But a long-delayed filing with the state Bureau of Elections that came to public attention last week is the first confirmation that anti-gambling forces had accepted big money from pro-gamblers. Even the Rev. Allen Rice, coordinator of the original anti-Detroit-casino effort and treasurer of an anti-Proposal E coalition based in Lansing that worked closely with the Flint group, said Friday he was unaware of the Saginaw Chippewa money until told of it by the Free Press. "Our original committee was very straitlaced," he said, referring to its policy of not accepting contributions from competing pro-gambling interests, including horse racing and Indian gaming. <<end excerpt Reprinted under the fair use http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.html doctrine of international copyright law. &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&& Tsonkwadiyonrat (We are ONE Spirit) Unenh onhwa' Awayaton http://www.tdi.net/ishgooda/ &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&
