Indian casinos raising concerns

WASHINGTON - While Buffalo appears to be cautiously embracing the Seneca Nation's proposal for an off-reservation casino, concern grows in Congress and nationwide about Indian tribes building gambling halls in communities that don't want them.
Communities in Michigan, Oregon and other states have voiced "grave concerns," said Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., who recently convened a series of hearings that cast a harsh eye on off-reservation gambling.

Asked to gauge the public outcry, McCain said: "It's getting bigger all the time."

McCain, who heads the Senate Select Committee on Indian Affairs, said he had not heard about the Seneca Nation's plans for a Buffalo casino. "But I'm sure I will," he added.

And if he does, he'll probably hear about a series of contrasts between the approach to Indian-run casinos in the Buffalo area and the approach nationwide. For example:

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I am a gambler. The Indian casinos are often much better than the other ones. And I am telling you these casinos are just dripping with $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$.

To oppose them is to deny the economic benefits.

He would never get by in this area with a no casino platform.

by native americans. You'll never guess where all the business has gone...

So I like em better.

casinos here!