With gaming plans in limbo at the state and federal level, the Mashpee Wampanoag
Tribe of Massachusetts has hired a new lobbyist with big political ties.
Former Rep. William
Delahunt (D-Massachusetts), who left Congress earlier this year, will represent the tribe on gaming and other matters. He supports legalized gaming and says the tribe deserves a casino.
"We will be working with them and make sure they receive everything they're entitled to because they deserve it," Delahunt told The Cape Cod Times.
Efforts to legalize gaming in Massachusetts in the past few years have failed. If a bill becomes law, the tribe would be able to negotiate a Class III compact with the state.
The tribe also needs help in Washington, D.C. The U.S. Supreme Court
decision in Carcieri
v. Salazar placed doubts on the tribe's land-into-trust application, which has been stalled at the Bureau of Indian Affairs for over three years.
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