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Friday, September 19, 2003

"A policy center for eastern tribes funded by the Mohegans, who have expressed interest, or the Pequot tribes would inevitably be suspect, and that's the last thing we need, whether the suspicions would be founded or not.

The policy center might as well take money from Jeff Benedict's anti-casino coalition, if that group had any to spare.

Newton has accepted money from tribes before, to update a federal Indian law handbook. But a policy center that would be called upon to analyze contentious issues such as taxes, land claims, business expansion and annexation is a whole other story."

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