Group claims success lobbying SCIA on gaming

Wednesday, September 28, 2005  

A group called Citizens For Our Community is claiming success in lobbying the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs on gaming.

The group said it met with the committee last week to discuss opposition to the Ho-Chunk Nation's acquisition of land outside Chicago. The tribe, based in Wisconsin, has floated plans for a casino.

"Basically, we came out ... feeling this was never going to happen, the land was never going to be put in trust, either by an act of Congress or the Bureau of Indian Affairs," Carl Smits Jr., the group's president, told The Northwest Indiana Times.

The paper did not identify whether the group met with committee members or solely with staff members. The paper also didn't say whether Republican or Democrat representatives of the committee attended the meeting.

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