KESHENA, WI (WTAQ) – About a dozen members of the Menominee Indian tribe are walking to Madison, to urge Governor Scott Walker to change his mind about rejecting the tribe’s new Kenosha casino.
FOX 11 said a couple hundred people attended a rally Friday morning at the tribe’s headquarters in Keshena.
With temperatures in the single digits, walkers then started heading to several locations where they’ll state their case — Manawa, Waupaca, Wild Rose, Montello, and Pardeeville. They expect to reach the State Capitol next week, where they’ll seek a meeting with the governor.
Walker said no to the project well before the federal deadline of February 19th.
The tribe believes Walker can change his mind before then, but the governor has said he does not believe it’s possible.
This week, the tribe offered to cover the state’s share of bonding for a new Milwaukee Bucks’ arena, in exchange for allowing the Kenosha casino. But the administration has said no.
Walker believes the state could be open to hundreds of millions of dollars in payments to the Potawatomi tribe if that group’s casino in Milwaukee loses revenue due to the Kenosha project.
(Story courtesy of Wheeler News Service)
