Oneida caring about local residents? Oneida promoting local approval? Or preventing competition?
October 7, 2012
Tribe Says Locals Need Casino Veto
BY JACOB GERSHMAN
An upstate New York Indian tribe is pressuring Albany to give local governments and communities veto power over new casinos, as Gov. Andrew Cuomo and lawmakers consider expanding the scope of gambling.
The Oneida Indian Nation, which operates a full-scale resort casino in central New York east of Syracuse, is financing a new advocacy group that supports giving local legislative bodies or voters a formal say over locating casinos. The group, New Yorkers for Local Approval of Casinos, is raising money for an advertising and mailing campaign and is trying to draw support from restaurant owners, lawmakers and opponents of ...
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