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Spilyy Tymoo, Warm Springs, Oregon
July 8, 2004
Pennsylvania governor legalizes slot machines
Dave McMecharVSpilyay
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Spill plan: only about
money, tribes say
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Recent returns above Shears
have been 2,000 to 4,000 fish,
so the loss of 1,000 would elimi
nate the Shears Falls fishery.
In testimony before federal
officials in Portland, Council
Chairman Suppah said, "It ap
pears to us that the federal trust
responsibility is given little if any
consideration, and that our con
cerns and objections have had
no effect." The BPA plan, he said,
is only about money. "The harm
to fish and the tribes' treaty
rights apparently are not as im
portant to BPA as selling elec
tricity," he said.
The Affiliated Tribes of
Northwest Indians, and the
National Congress of American
Indians have passed resolutions
condemning spill reduction at
the dams. The four treaty tribes
of the Columbia - Warm
Springs, Yakama, Umatilla and
Nez Perce - all oppose the spill
plan.
"We're now convinced it's
time for BPA to stop proposing
to end summer spill. Their most
recent proposal violates the
Endangered Species Act, violates
a federal court order, violates
the United States-Canada
Salmon Treaty and is a violation
of our treaty rights," said
Antone Minthorn, who chairs
the Confederated Tribes of the
Umatilla Indian Reservation.
"It's time for BPA to admit
that this proposal is a loser and
"The harm to fish and
the tribes' treaty rights
apparently are not as
important to BPA as
selling electricity, "
Council Chairman Suppah
take it off the table. The new
proposal doesn't satisfy the con
ditions set forth by the Gover
nor of Oregon and our congres
sional delegation - the condition
that the spill proposal not con
tinue the decades-long saga of
killing salmon."
Jerry Meninick, chairman of
the Confederated Tribes of the
Yakama Nation, said, "The plan
still lacks adequate measures to
offset the salmon and steelhead
we would lose if BPA gets its
way. We want this haphazard
plan off the table."
Nez Perce Tribe chairman
Anthony Johnson said, "Halting
summer spill would prove dev
astating for both the natural pro
duction of Snake River fall
Chinook - an Endangered Spe
cies Act-listed species - and the
hatchery program, which is dem
onstrating strong success in re
building this important fish popu
lation." There is unity among the
tribes but the BPA refuses to lis
ten, said Suppah. At the Port
land hearing before the federal
officials he said, "We are unani-
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first, Saraphina Scott, Warm
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"Round Bustle" Special:
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third, Owen Danzuka Jr., Warm
Springs.
mous in our opposition to re
ducing summer spill. If the fed
eral trust responsibility means
anything, and if you truly re
spect and honor our treaty
rights, you will not go forward
with this proposal."
(Note: The AP helped with
this story.)
BENSALEM, Pa. (AP) -Pennsylvania
Gov. Ed Rendell
on Monday signed a bill to le
galize slot machines, giving
Pennsylvania more of the ma
chines than any state except
Nevada, and a second bill that
finances $1 billion a year in property-tax
reductions.
The companion bills autho
rize up to 61,000 slot machines
at 14 sites. Most of the result
ing tax revenue would be used
to cut local property taxes by an
average 20 percent.
Rendell, a Democrat who had
made slots-for-tax-relief the cen
terpiece of his 2002 election
campaign, signed the bills at a
ceremony at Philadelphia Park,
the thoroughbred track that pro
duced Kentucky Derby-winner
Smarty Jones.
"It isn't a panacea, but it cer
tainly isn't the demon it's been
made out to be," Rendell said
Monday at the bill signing. "It's
a good, significant step on the
road to property-tax relief."
Opponents of the slots bill
predict a proliferation of crime,
addiction and other social ills.
They complained that the bill
was crafted in secret by a hand
ful of party leaders and lacks
adequate safeguards against cor
ruption and conflicts of inter
est among members of the state
panel that would oversee the
slots parlors.
Of the roughly $3 billion a
year slots are expected to gen
erate, the licensees would keep
48 percent, the state would get
34 percent and the rest would
be divided among the equine
industry, public construction
projects, and counties and mu
nicipalities in which slots parlors
are located. Proponents said the
bill will enable the state to re
capture much of the money
Pennsylvanians currently pour
into slot machines in neighbor
ing states and help revive the
state's horse racing industry.
The property-tax reduction
will not be immediate. Officials
say the initial relief would be
deferred until at least 2006 to
allow time for the slots parlors
to obtain licenses and gear up.
Ultimately, state taxes on slots
are expected to generate $1 bil
lion a year for reducing prop
erty taxes in all but one of the
state's 501 school districts. In
Philadelphia, there would be re
ductions in the city's wage tax.
A new gambling commission
would issue slots licenses to
racetracks, resorts and other
sites for fees ranging up to $50
million apiece.
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