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Posted on 06/13/2008 8:31:17 AM PDT by jazusamo
"Why would you give someone a monopoly without taking a cut?" asked Sen. Ken Jacobsen, D-Seattle.
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The Tribes give MILLIONS to the Democrats! This is a drop in the bucket.
That’s correct but Gregoire is solely responsible for this deal, the state legislature doesn’t have a say in it.
Ropes and Gray LLC is the only law firm in the United States that is a member of the American Gaming Association. They lobby to increase the amount Casino developers can contribute to pols. Guess who’s a partner there? MA Governor Deval Patrick’s wife Diane.
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She did! She just made structured it to go to (D) campaign donations instead of infrastructure.
That’s exactly what it looks like to me, boats. But even some of the Dems think it’s unethical and I think so too.
This state is swimming in corruption and we are just bobbing up and down in the swells treading water.
I pray she’s out of a job come Nov. She’s accomplished nothing since in office besides giving tax payer money to unions and indian casinos in exchange for campaign contributions.
She’ took a 2 billion surplus and turned it into a 2 billion deficit. She’s helping Clay Bennett move our 40 year old NBA franchise to Oklahoma. 520 bridge and the alaska way viaduct are falling apart.
I’ve never witnessed such a miserable do-nothing as Gregorie, and I grew up in Hawaii so I’m an expert in do-nothing corrupt politicians.
The way she and the Dems have spent money there has to be something big in it for her and her cronies or she’d never have passed up the revenue from Indian gaming for the state.
Yet, the sheep here keep putting them into office....unbelievable.
I proposed to Tim Eyman that we have a referendum on expanding gambling to non-tribal establishments. We need to try it again because the Democrats in WA are in collusion with the tribes to use the tribes for their social engineering goals. They are trying to give control of ALL the water in rural areas to the Indians, as well as unlimited hunting rights on all state property, including where game birds are released.
The threat of opening gambling is the only card that we hold in the deck. We need to force the tribes to deal with us on an equal playing field.
Maybe Eyman can do something but I believe we have to really push to get Dino Rossi in this time, there might be just enough people fed up with Gregoire’s spending to unseat her although it’s an uphill climb.
That’s exactly what Eyman said, that we need to get Rossi elected before we could do anything about the tribal situation. He said that Locke signed some kind of agreement with the tribes and that Gregoire extended, so it will take a new governor to overturn it.
I was just thinking that maybe we could label this as a quid pro quo for Gregoire and the tribes.
Also, the original agreement was signed by Locke. I’m wondering if Abramoff was involved, or some other lobbyist. If so, Gregoire benefitting from the agreement is just as bad as if she negotiated it in the first place.
We moved here when Locke was guv and I’m not too up on what took place then. I do know the Indian gaming thing has gotten completely out of control, there’s a real battle going on here in Clark county now.
These campaign donations for Gregoire and the Dems remind me of Murtha and his earmarks for defense related companies and their donations to him, big time corruption.
When you elect a Rat this stuff is expected to happen. Yes it happens to republocants, but in far less numbers, and usually to RINO’s.
That depends on who counts the votes, just like the last Washington governor race...
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