House panel targets proposed Glendale casino
By The Associated Press
Published: February 3, 2010 at 7:56 am
An Arizona House committee has approved a bill that could help Glendale prevent an American Indian tribe from building a casino near the city.
The measure, H2297, comes in response to the Tohono O’Odham Nation’s application to convert 100 acres of unincorporated land into a reservation, which would allow the tribe to build a casino. The tribe’s application is still pending.
The bill sponsored by Glendale Republican Rep. Jerry Weiers would allow Glendale to annex the land, which would prevent the tribe from converting it to a reservation in order to allow gambling.
Weiers says the tribe is imposing gambling on his district without input from the community. The tribe says a decades-old federal law allows it to add land to its reservation.
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One Response to “House panel targets proposed Glendale casino”
February 3rd, 2010 at 11:14 am
Don’t these lawmakers have a state budget deficit to deal with? Should they really be standing in the way of economic development?
Maybe someone should read them the job description for “state representative.” I doubt it says anything about reversing acts of Congress or undercutting tribal sovereignty.