{"id":4178,"date":"2010-07-27T15:22:31","date_gmt":"2010-07-27T23:22:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=4178"},"modified":"2021-04-02T03:57:51","modified_gmt":"2021-04-02T11:57:51","slug":"barbours-futile-tilt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/barbours-futile-tilt\/","title":{"rendered":"Barbour’s futile tilt?"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s not just Mississippi <\/strong>Gov. Haley Barbour<\/strong> who opposes a planned Choctaw Indian<\/strong> casino in upstate Laurel<\/strong> (birthplace of soprano Leontyne Price<\/strong>). Several other Bayou State bigwigs have expressed displeasure. Now the governor’s taking the Choctaws to court, although it’s looking like a futile gesture.<\/p>\n

Barbour’s challenge rests upon the assertion that “the policy of this state [is] to develop destination gaming for the economic benefit of all Mississippians<\/em>.” Unfortunately for the governor, the Indian Gaming Regulation Act<\/strong> doesn’t give a tinker’s damn what state policy might be. It was certainly not “state policy” during the Gov. Jeb Bush <\/strong>administration for Florida<\/strong> to sprout a number of Class III Seminole Tribe<\/strong> casinos. However, once Miami<\/strong>-area voters approved slot machines at privately owned parimutuels the genie was out of the bottle, never to be put back. (Bush nixed a 2012 presidential run today, doubtless to the relief of Native American tribes who witnessed his “Call me Bwana” attitude toward the Seminoles.)<\/p>\n

Further tying Barbour’s hands is the existing tribal-state compact. Since there’s no longer any hope of protesting the compact itself, Barbour’s left with the state-policy argument. In view of the number of states in which tribal gambling has flourished without any regard to gubernatorial druthers, Barbour’s tent-pole argument looks like a slender reed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s not just Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour who opposes a planned Choctaw Indian casino in upstate Laurel (birthplace of soprano Leontyne Price). Several other Bayou State bigwigs have expressed displeasure. Now the governor’s taking the Choctaws to court, although it’s … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[28,26,36,140,35,25,20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4178"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4178"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29463,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4178\/revisions\/29463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}