Richard Marshall leads fight against Karuk Casino The California Senate voted yesterday to ratify a Class III gaming compact for the Karuk Tribe Casino in Yreka. The Siskiyou Daily News reports that the bill’s author, Senator Lou Correa (D-Santa Ana), claims “there is no known opposition” to the Yreka Casino. Richard Marshall was trying to lead an opposition to the Karuk Casino. Marshall has, until recently, represented himself as “president” of the Siskiyou County Water Users Association. He stopped calling himself president after Scott Valley News released a report that the local water user group was in fact a suspected non-profit corporation and did not exist - even holding fundraisers for donations while suspended by the California franchise tax board. In an e-mail to his followers on August 8, Richard Marshall wrote “Just checked with office of Senator Correa, representing the 34th District in Santa Ana. Confirmed with staff that he is carrying the bill for confirmation of the Karuk compact with the governor. We need to get a letter writing campaign going on this issue. He needs to know that the majority of people do not favor the Karuk’s having the casino and the problems the Karuk’s have created in our Siskiyou county with lawsuits etc. the fact that the Karuk leadership includes people i.e. Leaf Hillman with felony convictions, the fact that the Karuks have stated on a number of occasions that money from the Casino will be used to fund continued lawsuits to deprive farmers and ranchers of their property and water rights and finally and importantly the Karuk are operating under a false treaty claim i.e. they are part of treaty Q not Treaty R. The rightful aboriginal inhabitants of the are the Shasta People who have been disenfranchised by the Karuks through this miscarriage of legislative power. The property the Karuks are locating the casino on was acquired for housing with federal funds and then converted to tribal land through the BIA. Also, the Karuks have been unresponsive to issues raised by the public and by state and county agencies regarding their TEIR.” Passage of SB1224 came after the city of Yreka withdrew its opposition. The tribe is negotiating an agreement with the city to address impacts of the casino. The bill needs approval from the Assembly before it can be sent to Gov. Jerry Brown(D). If he signs it, the compact can be sent to the Bureau of Indian Affairs for review. The tribe is planning to build a casino in two phases. The first phase calls for a 36,497 square-foot facility with 500 gaming devices and a 120-seat restaurant. A second phase will include a hotel. The compact authorizes up to 1,500 slot machines and requires the tribe to share 10 percent of the net win if more than 350 devices are in operation.
Posted on: Sat, 16 Aug 2014 00:03:45 +0000
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