Poarch Creeks donated $1.4M to Alabama primary candidates

Tuesday, July 6, 2010  

The Poarch Band of Creek Indians donated $1.4 million to candidates in the recent Alabama primary, The Birmingham News reports.

The tribe and its gaming authority, PCI Gaming, were the second-largest gaming donors, the paper said. The money went to 56 political action committees before being funneled to various candidates.

Overall the gaming industry spent $4.1 million on the race. "Gambling is a big issue," David Lanoue, the chair of University of Alabama's political science department, told the paper. "It's a life-and-death struggle for them, survive and thrive or shut down."

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