Barbara Boxer Delayed

From Rush Limbaugh:

RUSH: We also have an interesting story today. It's, interestingly, September 15th, 2003, and it's from the Weekly Standard. "California Gambling," by David DeVoss, and this is about heap big casinos, Indian casinos in residential neighborhoods. "Politicians caught between the political correctness of supporting Native Americans and voters outraged by the proliferation of casinos don't know which way to turn." Poor politicians! For example, "Three years ago, Barbara Boxer..." So 2003. This would be in 2000. In the year 2000, "Senator Barbara Boxer pushed through Congress a bill providing federal recognition for Northern California's Coast Miwok tribe. Boxer circumvented the Bureau of Indian Affairs after receiving assurances from the Miwoks that they would not open a casino. But this past April [in 2003, three years later] the tribe hired a team of influential political advisers, which included Boxer's son Doug..." Now, we just learned that he was on her payroll because she couldn't find anybody she could trust but her own family, so she hired her son, Doug, and so the Indian tribe went and hired her son, one of her staff members, "and announced plans for a massive casino and resort operated by Nevada financiers.

"Miwok Chief Greg Sarris, a college English professor and Hollywood screenwriter, says he's just trying to lift his people out of poverty. But Sonoma officials say they'll remember Boxer's role in this double-cross when she runs for reelection [in 2004]. Once the BIA acknowledges a tribe's existence and 'federalizes' its property, the new reservation legally becomes a sovereign nation, exempt from local taxes, state labor laws, municipal ordinances, zoning restrictions, and environmental review. Some tribes have offered to pay mitigation fees for the disruption gambling creates, but the money seldom covers the amount counties spend on added police and fire protection.... Thanks to the Indian Gaming Initiative -- and the fact that tribes pay no property, corporate, or sales tax -- California's Indians have achieved self-sufficiency and more. Each of their 62,000 slot machines rakes in over $300 in profit a day. When added with revenue from bingo, cards, and video games, the state's 54 Indian casinos earn $5.1 billion a year, a sum that exceeds Atlantic City's and is more than half that of Nevada, a state with 401 casinos." So with 54 casinos in California the Indian tribes out there earn more than half of what Nevada's 401 casinos earn, and Barbara Boxer made it all possible for one tribe by skirting the law, then they hired her son after the arrangement had been made. Now, I want to ask -- that's the Weekly Standard, of course, so that's not the mainstream press. That's those neocons over there, neocons at the Weekly Standard. I want to see the mainstream media pick up on this story and the Harry Reid story, and I want to put them side-by-side with the allegations are against Tom DeLay and then I want to put them side-by-side with the allegations against George W. Bush, and then I want them to put side-by-side with the allegations against Dick Cheney and Halliburton and all this other stuff.