Don't you just love it when someone who livesd 100 miles away from us feels compelled to tell us what to do so HE can get a check sent to him in Olympia?
Like most people claiming Cowlitz tribal membership, Rod Van Mechelen doesn't live here. In fact, like the vast majority of the tribe, he doesn't live anywhere NEAR here.
But because he wants to bury his head in the trough of this economic black hole, there's no end to the whining and sniveling he spews out when things don't go this organized crime's way.
His first idiocy is to attempt to get us to faint dead away in gratitude that a few people around here might benefit from this rip off... as if the costs to our community would even break even: absurd on it's face but the kind of thing a slimeball that doesn't live here could be expected to do as he sees it all slipping away:
Rod Van Mechelen · Top Commenter · University of Washington
Lucretius Carus The Tribe would NOT pay tax on revenue, BUT tribal members would pay taxes on any per capita (dividend) distributions, and tribal casinos have to buy their supplies and support services from somebody, and in most cases those somebodies are local businesses that do pay taxes, not to mention employ people who pay taxes. Plus, as part of gaming compacts, tribes agree to donate a percent of their revenue to the local communities--not to the local politicians, but directly to the schools, charitable organizations and others who need it.
Reply · 1 · Like.Notice ol' Rod didn't mention what that "percent" was? Maybe it's because it's too small to mention.
Keep in mind that to date, there's no lie these slime wouldn't spew to build this cancer on our society... and that garbage he posted under the editorial fits the bill.
THEN, he lies for the agency that screwed up, ignoring the fact that they broke the law and that the Cowlitz scam is but a test-case for Carceri.
Rod Van Mechelen · Top Commenter · University of Washington
Either the BIA misplaced the documents, or the lawyers representing the moneyed interests in Clark County intentionally withheld them to create this situation. Regardless, it's one more delay in a long list of many but in the end it will be just a delay. Those hardest hit by this will be the tribe's neediest members, and the citizens of Clark County who are unemployed and desperately need the jobs the casino (construction and operation) would provide. But, with the exception of the Carcieri Decision, the BIA and the courts have dealt with every argument against the casino many times already and the outcome is a foregone conclusion. From CARS to the County Council to the Grand Ronde, all the opposition to the Cowlitz Casino echo the arguments that were mounted against the Siletz Tribe's Chinook Winds Casino in Lincoln City, and today Chinook Winds is considered an essential part of the community, and history casts the Siletz Tribe's former opponents in the role of elitist good ol' boys trying to protect their turf. Something the opponents of the Cowlitz Casino may want to think about if they are at all concerned about their legacy.
He's got no proof that the "monied interests in Clark County," WHO HAVE NOTHING APPROACHING THE MONIED INTERESTS SUPPORTING THIS SCAM, broke any law or rule, or screwed up in any way.
In fact, it's likely that delivery of the information to the BIA was PROVEN, and that THEY screwed up. But Rod's bigotry won't allow for that, now will it?
And then he blows through the US SUPREME COURT DECISION that kills this thing... dead... because this merry band wasn't a recognized tribe in 1934. Of course, what was argued about the Chinook Wind casino is completely and utterly irrelevant to this matter: Chinook Wind was built LONG before Carceri.
No, Rod, since you don't and never have lived here, if anyone's "legacy" is at risk, it's yours and that of the band of hucksters, thieves and scum you've attached yourself to... not the people of the tribe who stand to get nothing for years after this economic black hole is built, but those very few manipulating this situation for their own pocket-filling ways.
Rod is a tribal embarrassment. Every time he whines and snivels, it makes his tribe look more thuggish than the decade-long record of restraining orders from women (and Rod, you'd know all ABOUT that, wouldn't you?) hard drug use, criminal records and all of the other wonderful history certain people involved in this scam bring to the table while they're channeling Chief Umtuch.
Bizarre and sickening.
You're losing. And it feels great for me and the community.
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