{"id":1504,"date":"2020-03-27T11:24:18","date_gmt":"2020-03-27T15:24:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indianz.com\/covid19\/?p=1504"},"modified":"2020-03-29T10:47:06","modified_gmt":"2020-03-29T14:47:06","slug":"gov-kevin-stitt-r-oklahoma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/2020\/03\/27\/gov-kevin-stitt-r-oklahoma\/","title":{"rendered":"Gov. Kevin Stitt (R-Oklahoma)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Gov. Kevin Stitt (R-Oklahoma) is citing the COVID-19 pandemic to pressure tribes into negotiating new Class III gaming compacts. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>But Stitt isn&#8217;t reaching out to Indian Country himself. Instead, a law firm hired by the governor sent a &#8220;confidential offer of compromise&#8221; to tribal leaders on March 26, 2020.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8216;We are in uncertain times,&#8221; the law firm letter begins. &#8220;The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the landscape of Oklahoma&#8217;s tribal and non-tribal environment.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;Enterprises throughout Oklahoma are suffering from the COVID-19 pandemic, including your gaming facilities,&#8221; the letter, which was sent to more than one tribal leader, continues.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>PDF: <a href=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/oklahomacompact032620.pdf\">Confidential Offer of Compromise<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1505\" src=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/oklahomacompact032620.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"2550\" height=\"3300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/oklahomacompact032620.png 2550w, https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/oklahomacompact032620-232x300.png 232w, https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/oklahomacompact032620-791x1024.png 791w, https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/oklahomacompact032620-768x994.png 768w, https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/oklahomacompact032620-1187x1536.png 1187w, https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/oklahomacompact032620-1583x2048.png 1583w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2550px) 100vw, 2550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gov. Kevin Stitt (R-Oklahoma) is citing the COVID-19 pandemic to pressure tribes into negotiating new Class III gaming compacts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,4],"tags":[207,208,19],"class_list":["post-1504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-institutions","category-tribes","tag-gaming","tag-kevin-stitt","tag-oklahoma"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1504"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1578,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1504\/revisions\/1578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}