{"id":14642,"date":"2014-09-26T09:10:18","date_gmt":"2014-09-26T17:10:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=14642"},"modified":"2014-09-26T09:10:18","modified_gmt":"2014-09-26T17:10:18","slug":"quote-of-the-day-594","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/quote-of-the-day-594\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

“According to National Relief Charities<\/strong>, a nonprofit organization that assists Native Americans<\/strong> in the Plains and Southwest, ‘Over 500 treaties were made \"Glendale<\/a>with American Indian tribes, primarily for land cessations, but 500 treaties were also broken, changed or nullified when it served the government’s interests.’<\/p>\n

“In those cases we’re not talking about unwritten ‘promises’ here but stuff written in contracts. So, yeah, maybe the Tohono O’odham<\/strong> skunked us — as well as some of the other local tribes that have casinos and don’t want this new competition. But given the scorecard on broken promises I figure the U.S. government and all of its citizens maintain a comfortable lead.<\/p>\n

“I’m going to let this one slide.” — Arizona Republic columnist E.J. Montini<\/strong>, opening a can of whup-ass<\/a> on opponents of the Tohono O’odham’s Glendale<\/strong> casino<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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