The St. Regis Mohawk Tribe of New York will hold another referendum on a proposed off-reservation casino.
The tribe said a November 21 vote in which tribal members rejected the casino was "null and void" because it was held without adequate public notice. "There will be another referendum," Aimee Benedict of the tribe's public information office told The Middletown Times Herald-Record . "It will happen within 90 days of the date the tribal council calls it."
"Obviously we made a mistake," Chief James W. Ransom, who has testified before Congress in support of the project, told The Watertown Daily Times. "I don't think we did a very good job in educating the community. We certainly didn't give enough information."
The tribe and Empire Resorts want to open a casino in the Catskills, about 90 minutes north of New York City.
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St. Regis Mohawk tribe nullifies casino pullout (The Middletown Times Herald-Record 12/1)
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