{"id":88774,"date":"2018-09-23T08:00:11","date_gmt":"2018-09-23T15:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/?p=88774"},"modified":"2018-09-21T09:53:31","modified_gmt":"2018-09-21T16:53:31","slug":"rhode-island-dems-oppose-bill-to-rescue-massachusetts-tribal-casino","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/rhode-island-dems-oppose-bill-to-rescue-massachusetts-tribal-casino\/","title":{"rendered":"Rhode Island Dems Oppose Bill to Rescue Massachusetts Tribal Casino"},"content":{"rendered":"

A federal bill that would reaffirm the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe of Massachusetts\u2019 reservation — and therefore its right to build a $1 billion casino in — will face opposition not just from a Republican-controlled Congress, but also from Democrats in Rhode Island.<\/p>\n

\"Mashpee\"
US Rep. David Cicilline has asserted Rhode Island\u2019s opposition to a bill that would safeguard sovereign lands for the Mashpee tribe of Massachusetts. The tribe\u2019s ambition to build a casino within striking distance of Rhode Island has been torpedoed by the DOI. (Image: AP)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The bill seeks to reaffirm a 2015 Department of Interior decision that took 321 acres into trust for the Mashpee, later declaring the land as the tribe\u2019s sovereign reservation. Following a successful legal challenge to the tribe\u2019s plans to build a casino on the land by an out-of-state casino developer, the DOI reversed the decision<\/a>. This not only nixed the tribe’s casino ambitions but also its claim to self-governance.<\/p>\n

The bill is sponsored by a group of Massachusetts Democrats, including US Representative Bill Keating and US Sen. Ed Markey. Keating told the Boston Globe<\/em> last week there was hope for the long-shot legislation because \u201cin what is often a sea of discord, I have key Republican sponsors.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rhode Island Protects Its Tax Dollars<\/strong><\/h2>\n

But what he failed to mention is there is discord in his own ranks — from the entire Rhode Island Democratic delegation. Rhode Island\u2019s casinos<\/a> are the third-biggest source of tax revenue in the state and its legislators are anxious to protect them from competition.<\/p>\n

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According to The Cape Cod Times<\/em> this week, US Rep. David Cicilline (D-R.I.) has joined Rhode Island Sens. Jack Reed, Sheldon Whitehouse and the state\u2019s Democratic Governor, Gina Raimondo, in openly opposing the bill.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Cicilline has sent a letter to every member of the House Committee on Natural Resources, which held a hearing on the bill over the summer. The letters are signed by Raimondo and declare her opposition to the bill.<\/p>\n

\u2018Slap in the Face\u2019<\/strong><\/h2>\n

\u201cIt makes perfect sense,\u201d Professor Clyde Barrow, chairman of the Department of Political Science at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley.<\/p>\n

The (Mashpee tribe) are proposing a casino in Taunton; that\u2019s a pretty close drive to ;Rhode Island’s] Lincoln casino, and even closer to the Tiverton casino, and both facilities get about 50 percent of their customers from Massachusetts,\u201d he told The Cape Cod Times. <\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Mashpee Wampanoag Tribal Chairman Cedric Cromwell said Rhode Island’s stance was \u201cpower politics at its ugliest,\u201d and \u201ca slap in the face to all tribal nations.\u201d<\/p>\n

Barrow believes that in the unlikely event the bill is passed by Congress, there\u2019s a strong chance President Trump will refuse to sign it, given his long history of opposing Indian gaming. That it’s co-sponsored by his political enemy, Senator Elizabeth Warren, is unlikely to help matters.<\/p>\n

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