\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>\nMashpee 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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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. The bill seeks to reaffirm a 2015 Department of Interior decision that took […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":88776,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,18,61,1,18456],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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