Wisconsin Casino
The Department of Interior's Denial of the Wisconsin Chippewa's Casion Application
And it is sort of a criticism on my part that it just seems to me that we can find mechanisms to help finance. I know for a fact that the Eskimo tribes in Alaska, there are at least three successful multibillion-dollar investment corporations up there. Why do they have to go to Florida gambling interests or Las Vegas gambling interests or Atlantic City gambling interests to put a casino together? Unless are casinos losers? Maybe I haven't—I have been traveling around the country. In the middle of deserts, see these thousands of cars and very successful casinos, so it is almost a God-given determination. If I get a license for a casino, I have got gold. Now, why are we encouraging such an inordinate amount of the share of those profits to go to non-Indians when the intent of this act is to help some of these economically distressed Native American tribes? ... [Read More]
Footnotes for Chapt 9 for Gambling in California
27 Promus Companies Inc., "The Do's and Don't of Casino Legislation: Lesson from the Field," 1994, p. 3. ... 26 Steven D. Gold, "Are Casinos a Windfall for State Budgets," State Fiscal Bri ef, no. 30, State University of New York, p. 1. ... 5 Mark M. Quinn, "Social Costs of Casino Proposal Are Too High," Chicago Sun-Times , 4 April 1992, Sec. Forum, p. 16. ... [Read More]
Read On Wisconsin!
Joseph Bruchac Chris's life is complicated. At school, he's been selected to lead a project on sports teams with Indian names. At home, on the Penacook reservation, the Indians are divided about building a casino. It would destroy the beautiful island Chris thinks of as his own. Is there anything one sixth-grade boy can do? ... [Read More]
The Department of Interior's Denial of the Wisconsin Chippewa's Casion Application
It is clear that there was local opposition to this casino, as there often is in these cases. You will hear my friends on the other side of the aisle say that the local Congressman, a Republican, Steve Gunderson, opposed the casino, and this is true. Sincere, committed local citizens opposed the casino, and some of them are here. An equal number of sincere, committed local citizens supported it. In a 1992 referendum in Hudson, the casino was approved by a vote of 51 1/2 percent to 48 1/2 percent. But that is not what is at issue. The Department's own guidelines state that local opposition by itself is not sufficient to justify rejecting a casino, as was expressed in other new Department records that we have received. ... [Read More]
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