Thread: McCain calls Indian gaming, immigration 'out of control'

Originally Posted by AlturaCt

McCain has become a disease to America.

Gaming is out of control but illegal immigration is a banana!

One can only assume that McCain isn't getting enough of what he would consider "respect" from gaming as he is from illegal immigration.

McCain...don't bother to run for the President of the United States!

America now knows that you are a traitor!!

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I am 1/8 Cherokee and 1/4 Blackfoot or so I understand...according to my family. This means that I am at least 37.5% American Indian. They said that my Indian grandmother was Blackfoot. However, she was so busy passing herself off as white and denying that she was Indian and insisting that she was...get this, "Black Irish". There is NO such thing as Black Irish, or so I understand. Only Indians passing themselves off as white used to claim this heritage.

My Cherokee Indian great-grandmother died because a white doctor in Kentucky refused to treat her and she died in childbirth and her baby was born alive, lived one day and then died. My great-grandfather, of Irish descent, went the next day and shot the doctor to death. My half-breed grandfather grew up an orphan who did not even know what year, month, or day that he was born. I have come across 2 different birthdates for the man. He had no idea if he was 18 or 21. He had to guess and fabricate birthdates to get into the Army and to get married. I saw a photo of the man. He is undeniably Indian and looks to be 100% but was only half.

My father was 1/4 Cherokee and I saw the fear in his eyes when he told me that he was 1/4 Cherokee but, he said, don't tell anyone. He was ashamed of being Indian and deathly afraid of anyone finding out. I never could understand what the big deal was about being afraid of anyone finding out that you were Indian or part Indian.

And as for the illegal invaders...they had better go back to their country and ruin it some more and leave ours alone.

Illegal alien invading criminals...GET OUT and STAY OUT of MY country and the land of my ancestors. You have the nerve being here illegally.

Also, for the record, I married an illegal alien from Mexico and after I applied for his papers, the 1986 IRCA amnesty came along and we applied for it and he was approved. It saved us thousands of dollars and it was much easier. I know that other Americans took advantage of the amnesty after applying for their foreign spouse's papers as it was much cheaper and much easier...although their spouse still would have gotten their papers.

I divorced him twice for alcoholism and we have a beautiful 18-year-old daughter and she strongly dislikes her dad and refuses to call him dad. Mexican male chauvinism is the cause. Also, many illegal alien mexicans are extremely racist as I found out to my great shock. I have heard them talking bad about black people and other non-mexican people.

I will only marry an American boy from now on. No more mexicans for me. I have learned my lesson real good. I also can badmouth them any time I like and not feel guilty of racism because I used to be married to one and I have lots of experience with these people.

I hope this helps. Also, my ancestor came over in 1621 as the governor of the Virginia colony. Our family helped found this country and even fought in the Revolutionary War against England and 2 of my ancestors were war heroes in that war. I am also related to President George Washington and Confederate General Robert E. Lee.

FormerlyGarcia wrote:

Also, my ancestor came over in 1621 as the governor of the Virginia colony. Our family helped found this country and even fought in the Revolutionary War against England and 2 of my ancestors were war heroes in that war. I am also related to President George Washington and Confederate General Robert E. Lee.

That's a great background..to bad the secret societies (read my signature) that are promoting the NAU don't give two cents about your background. To me, you have the greatest background an American can have.

I love learning about the members of ALIPAC!!

What wonderful histories you have. As to the Black Irish, I'm going to research this, because there is a great deal of Irish in my history and I've heard this term before but I was young at the time and those were days when adults talked and children played and didn't ask any questions.

The "be seen and not heard" days!



If I find out anything, I'll post it here.

Oh, and McCain can so suck eggs. I'm a Republican and so disappointed in this Traitor. And Indians need to keep him OUT OUT OUT of their lives. They also need to ask him if he's located the missing money from the Indian Trust Fund....someone has stolen many millions of dollars from it...as it is missing and unaccounted for and this was the Federal Government Fund for the Indians. Lying thieving scumbag bureaucrats.

GRRRRR!!!!

My reply from the office of Assistant Chief Bailey of the Choctaw Nation tribe.
Dear Mr.
Asst. Chief Bailey asked me to respond to your note with a word of
appreciation for your update and for your concern. He assures me that
he is working on the McCain bill, and is scheduled to be in DC next
week for meetings regarding this. Thank you for sending the article.
It was greatly appreciated.
Judy Allen

Somehow, I knew my Choctaw leaders were on top of this, unlike a lot of my United States leaders regarding the Illegal invasion from the south!

The president and I and others believe that after we secure the borders, we need to somehow resolve the issue of 11 to 12 million that are in this country illegally."

Send their asses back to where they came from.

http://www.sacbee.com/111/story/22744.html

Indian gaming legislation fails to make it out of House
By David Whitney - McClatchy Washington Bureau
Published 2:04 pm PDT Wednesday, September 13, 2006
WASHINGTON -- The fight to stem the expansion of Indian gaming came to an abrupt halt Wednesday when the House failed to muster enough votes for expedited passage of legislation that would have stopped its spread to lands distant from tribal homelands.

The legislation, sponsored by Rep. Richard Pombo, R-Tracy, needed the support of two-thirds of the members voting to clear the chamber under procedures to speed passage of non-controversial legislation. The 247-171 vote failed by 33 votes to meet that threshold, sending it into political limbo as Congress is nearing the end of the session.

"This is a great disappointment," said Cheryl Schmit of Stand Up for California, a group that closely monitors tribal casinos in the state. "Pombo's bill is legislation we should have had 10 years ago."

But critics, including many tribes and virtually every Indian gaming association, believed the Pombo bill addresses a non-existent problem in a way that erodes the sovereign power of tribal governments.

"This bill imposes on the poorest tribes onerous new requirements," said Rep. Dale Kildee, D-Mich., co-chairman of the House Native American Caucus.

Pombo's bill was aimed at stopping the spread of what has been called "off-reservation" gaming. The term has come to describe the efforts of usually remote tribes or newly recognized tribes that, typically working with a casino developer, acquire property distant from their historic territory and apply to the Interior Department to have it taken into trust as lands qualifying for a casino under the 1988 Indian Gaming Regulatory Act.

Despite the enormous expansion of tribal casinos in California, little of it is the result of the loopholes in the 1988 act that Pombo sought to stop. And while Pombo initially had proposed even more restrictive legislation, the version that came to the House floor Wednesday would not have stopped any of the major new casinos proposed in Northern and Central California.

"The way the legislation is now, we would be fine," said Jacquie Davis-VanHuss, secretary of the North Fork Rancheria of Mono Indians which is working to develop a large casino north of Madera on Highway 99.

Tribal spokesmen said the bill also would not stop two controversial casino projects in Amador County proposed by the Ione Band of Milwok Indians and the Buena Vista Rancheria of Me-Wuk Indians.

Still, the legislation would end the practice of out-of-state Indian tribes forging partnerships with developers to build Indian casinos. That has become a problem in along the East Coast. Rep. Charles Dent, R-Pa., cited a proposed casino in his district proposed by the out-of-state Delaware Nation, saying it would take over a 315-acre site that now includes a Crayola crayon plant.

Last year the odds of legislation curbing Indian gaming looked better. The Jack Abramoff lobbying scandal focused attention on the enormous wealth of gaming tribes and their efforts to wield power in Congress.

But even then, critics charged that the reform legislation was as much about campaign contributions as stemming casino expansion. Pombo held hearings on the issue around the country, and often held fundraisers in the evenings. According to the Center for Responsive Politics, Pombo is the top recipient of contributions from the gambling industry with nearly $200,000 in the last two years, much of which came from gaming tribes.

While Wednesday's vote does not stop Pombo's bill from coming back under regular procedures requiring a simple majority vote to pass, that would open it up to amendments that many of the critics were clamoring for the opportunity to offer Wednesday.

"The only conceivable amendments would be those designed to approve specific casinos," said Brian Kennedy, spokesman for the House Resources Committee that Pombo heads. Pombo said that would be taking the legislation in the wrong direction.

The legislative situation in the Senate is no better. Legislation that is considered less restrictive, sponsored by Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., is hobbled by a dozen "holds" by senators trying to stop its progress for one reason or another.

Among those holds is one by Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., who wants it amended to undo an off-reservation casino authorized for a Santa Rosa band in San Pablo along Interstate 80.

While Wednesday's vote was largely along party lines, Pombo's bill had bipartisan support. Reps. Mike Thompson of St. Helena, Ellen Tauscher of Alamo, Dennis Cardoza of Merced and Jim Costa of Fresno voted for the Pombo measure; Rep. Doris Matsui of Sacramento opposed it. All area Republicans sided with Pombo.