Feb
2
2010
Kathryn's quoted in this Cape Cod Times article on the politics of compact negotiations and tribal-state relations. In Massachusetts, as the Mashpee Wampanoag continue to pursue Class III gaming, the tribe and the governor are on different sides of another issue -- a wind farm in Nantucket Sound.A wind farm, of course, is not related to gaming, and under IGRA should not be an issue that enters into compact negotiations. But politics, unlike law, is not easily compartmentalized into relevant and irrelevant considerations. Here's what Kathryn said about the possible impact of the tribe's and governor's difference of opinion:
