Ed. Note: Steve Cadue is a former chairman of the Kickapoo Tribe in Kansas.
"It was interesting to read the recent Capital-Journal editoral headlined “Time to torch casino exemption,” which chided the Legislature for hypocrisy in permitting smoking in state owned casinos.
This editorial is a gold standard for hypocrisy considering the newspaper didn’t cite hypocrisy when the state of Kansas approved construction of state-owned casinos. At that time, after all, the state Legislature and attorney general had opposed gaming for our Indian tribal nations for five years.
The newspaper archives provide abundant instances of the Legislature and attorney general opposing our sovereign right to establish tribal casino gaming. Our Indian sovereign right to establish casino gaming received only the support of one state official — former Gov. Joan Finney. "
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Steve Cadue: C-J was hypocritical
(The Topeka Capital-Journal 5/4)
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Steve Cadue: Paper's bias against Indian gaming in Kansas
Wednesday, May 4, 2011
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