Minnesota candidate wants to partner with tribe on a casino

Thursday, June 17, 2010  

Rob Hahn, the Independence Party candidate for governor of Minnesota, wants to partner with a tribe to develop a riverboat casino.

Hahn believes the project will create 3,000 jobs and generate $400 million a year for the state. "When the state is facing a budget crisis like the projected $6 billion deficit, everything must be on the table and everything is negotiable," Hahn said, The Minneapolis Star Tribune reported.

Mark Dayton, the Democratic-Farmer-Labor candidate, is also talking gaming. He said he would support a state-owned casino in the Minneapolis area.

Tribes in the state have historically opposed non-Indian gaming.

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IP gubernatorial candidate pitches riverboat gambling (The Minneapolis Star Tribune 6/17)
Gaming one budget solution for Hahn, Dayton (The Minneapolis Star Tribune 6/17)