Editorial: Let voters decide on Poarch Creek gaming machines

Thursday, May 3, 2012  

"Did you ever wonder why folks like Milton McGregor couldn’t have electronic bingo machines legally, but Native American tribes could?

What a coincidence. So did Attorney General Luther Strange.

That’s why he is asking the National Indian Gaming Commission — the federal regulatory agency that oversees tribal casinos across the county, including the Choctaw facilities near Meridian, Miss. — to tell the Poarch Band of Creek Indians to shut down their casinos in Alabama."

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