Seminoles respond to the court decision

"Earlier today the Florida Supreme Court issued a decision concerning the authority of the Governor to compact with the Seminole Tribe of Florida for various forms of Class III gaming.  In its decision, the Court concluded that the Governor lacked the authority to compact for banked card games. While the decision is disappointing, it is important to note that the decision has no immediate impact on the Tribe or its gaming operations. In its decision, the Court expressely stated this its decision is not final until it has ruled on any motion for rehearing . That process is likely to take a number of months.  Depending on the final decision by the Court, the Tribe may seek review by the United States Supreme Court.

Since this decision is preliminary, no action has been taken by the United States Department of the Interior to question the approval of the Compact. The Interior Department published notice that the Compact had been deemed approved in the Federal Register on January 7, 2008. Under federal law, that approval remains effective. Thus, the Tribe is under no legal obligation to suspend its operation of banked card games or any other games. The Tribe has a number of legal options available and remains confident that its right to offer banked card games will be upheld.

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[John McCain loves Bush]

The one good thing Charlie does gets shot down. Too bad. He really is a complete failure.

[It's better than loving c-ck]

Adding Florida to to Powerball is now the one thing that redeems CC. Otherwise, he would have done absolutely nothing good for the state.

The same people who wrote this statement were the ones telling us the Crist had the constitutional authority to expand gambling unilaterally. In other words, this statement by the seminoles isn't worth the paper its printed on.

Wrong 4:00 pm. The statement by the Seminoles is saying "you stupid Florida hicks, this is the Seminole Tribe of Florida, we are sovereign from your stupid ridiculous rules and it does not matter what your stupid littls state court says, you cannot affect us"..note the reference to the "US Supreme Court"..and they are 100% CORRECT.

So the feds can sanction an act that's illegal everywhere else in Florida and should also be illegal on tribal lands, too?

Tribal lands in not technically The state of Florida..tink in terms of an embassy in a foreign country which. The embassy property belongs to the country it represents, not the country its in. Americans in the US embassy in any country are on American soil.

One man and one man alone negotiated this whole deal George Lemieux. Maybe when he alone is responsible the results aren't so good. Let's see how he does with McCain.

[terminator]

all I can say to Chuck is HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Guess Marco kicked his butt on that one!
Where's my Marco detractor?

Bend over, Charlie's ready!

4:33 - the answer is Yes. Certainly that is not true in any other country in the world, but in the good ole U S of A - we're politically correct!

Way to go Marco! Now the Seminoles will just go to the Feds to approve the casinos they are already running here anyway. And Florida will get NO MONEY for it.

I hope you're not thinking of running for any other office after this stunt.

As long as there is $$$ for HIS pork and for CSX and U.S. Sugar - Rubio couldn't care less about expanding the revenue source for the state. AFter all, his kids go to private schools.