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Post by Tim Collins on Apr 10, 2009 18:30:35 GMT -7
Guess they did not buy air time on The Strelz and Norma got even. That will teach them to ignore Rep. Chavez
Tiguas hopes to restart gambling dies; legislation not 'salvageable' Brandi Grissom / El Paso Times Posted: 04/10/2009 04:08:35 PM MDT
AUSTIN -- The Tiguas hopes to restart lucrative gambling operations on their reservation are dead for this legislative session, state Rep. Norma Chavez, D-El Paso, said Friday.
Part of the reason was the criminal record of Tigua Gov. Frank Paiz.
"I believe the Tigua legislation is not salvageable," Chavez said in an interview.
Lawmakers this week told the tribe chances were minuscule that any gambling legislation would pass this year.
Paiz's 20-year criminal history, they said, diminished what were already small odds.
"There are insurmountable obstacles," said state Rep. Pete Gallego, D-Alpine, who spoke with the tribe this week about its flagging gambling efforts.
Tribal members have been lobbying lawmakers to allow them to resume the games of chance they operated at Speaking Rock Casino from 1993 until a judge ordered them to stop to in 2002, after then-Attorney General John Cornyn sued the Tiguas.
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Post by rosa on Apr 11, 2009 4:22:48 GMT -7
Snil, I think Brownfield raises an interesting point, but I also think that Chavez has to perform to a certain extent, to make it look like (1) she really cares and (2) like she is actually representing the community
I don't think she does much else unless it's absolutely necessary. I think even then, she has to be shown how to do it, so the whole thing about buying advertising time on a radio station that nobody listens to once the hoopla dies down? She does enjoy that limelight
the more I think about how one thing leads to another sometimes, the more I think that maybe Mahar is shiftier than I give him credit for. What a write-off this would make!
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Post by Tim Collins on Apr 11, 2009 5:34:05 GMT -7
Open licensing - that I can approve. Brown's point is valid one vice subsides another - casinos for race tracks.
I still say with the lottery someone ought to demand a publicly published accounting of revenue and distribution. Why is it that in NM college tuition is free for NM High School (qualified) Graduates from lottery money and Texas keeps going up?
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Post by rosa on Apr 11, 2009 6:51:06 GMT -7
because they lie about what they do with the money
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Post by badlygiven on Apr 11, 2009 15:04:58 GMT -7
Did you all know we have horse tracks and greyhound and horse tracks as well? And that betting is done on these races? Outside of Fort Worth, and in Galveston...If we are a "gambling free" state, why the dog and horse tracks? If the Tiguas had a good lawyer, they would sue the state for discrimination.
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Post by Tim Collins on Apr 11, 2009 17:02:53 GMT -7
Did you all know we have horse tracks and greyhound and horse tracks as well? And that betting is done on these races? Outside of Fort Worth, and in Galveston...If we are a "gambling free" state, why the dog and horse tracks? If the Tiguas had a good lawyer, they would sue the state for discrimination. I think that is what caused them their casino in the first place. Their reading of the understanding with the state was they were limited to the type of gaming they could offer subject to the state entering into gambling. The tiguas expanded their operations under the argument that the state with the lottery and the racing was in the gambling business. Unfortunately they started their casino before getting a court to agree, thus Cornyan (I spelled that wrong) was able to get them shut down
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