Reply #25: Don't forget who else may tie into this.

[sofa king]

http://www.indiancountry.com/content.cfm?id=1096411716

Did Miers spark attack on Tigua casino?

Posted: October 07, 2005
by: Jim Adams / Indian Country Today

WASHINGTON - A damaging charge against Supreme Court justice nominee Harriet Miers is circulating through American Indian e-mail networks: that in 1999 she was the inspiration for the Texas government's drive to shut down the casinos of two federally recognized tribes. The allegation is debatable, but supported by enough circumstantial evidence to make it worth investigation.

The allegation is that as chair of the Texas Lottery, Miers was worried about the declining performance of its major weekly game and attributed the falloff to competition from the casinos. According to the rumor, she prevailed on then-Gov. George W. Bush to get then-Attorney General John Cornyn to bring suit to close the tribal casinos.

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Which in turn leads to Ralph Reed, who was financially supporting Cornyn's (successful) Senate campaign, while also drumming up a fallacious grassroots campaign against the tribal casinos, working in tandem with Jack Abramoff. Abramoff and Michael Scanlon then lobbied (unsuccsessfully) for the Alabama Coushatta (and the Tiguas) to get those casinos back, soaking those tribes for millions.

That would mean that the President nominated a potential criminal co-conspirator in this case to the Supreme Court, wouldn't it? And Harriet and Bush are close enough that the President wouldn't even have to ask about it.

Edit: that having been said, it's still just a rumor about Harriet Miers.