"Enough is enough," the new governor of Pojoaque Pueblo has told New Mexico attorney general Patricia Madrid.
Gov. George Rivera said he was ending talks with the state over a long running revenue-sharing dispute. "Your negotiating tactics make me believe that you would break the tribe just to have the tribe pay the state. I refuse to break the tribe just to pay the state," the letter said, according to The Albuquerque Journal
The tribe reportedly offered $9 million to settle the dispute but the state rejected it. The state says the tribe owes $25 million.
Ten other tribes agreed to pay all the money owed under old compacts with a 16 percent revenue-sharing rate. The payment was a condition to new compacts that capped the rate at 8 percent.
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