free14
07-27-2012, 05:04 PM
Recently Greg Serris posted that he thought the new casino would be a small "potato" compared to some of the big corporations owned by "Wall Street" that already have huge businesses in Sonoma County. I'm not sure which interests on Wall Street he's referring to but isn't it a bit disingenuous to be attacking "Wall Street" when Station Casinos itself is at least (maybe more) owned by two mega-Wall Street firms. I am referring to DeutchiBank, (Sp.? which owns 25% of Station Casinos and JP Morgan Chase which owns ten per cent of Station Casinos stock. This is a little "pot calling the proverbial kettle black" it sounds to me.
There are fishy signs about this Rohnert Park casino/resort! Like no road or street improvements yet produced on any of the streets and roads surrounding the site. The earth-movers and heavy trucks are working away every day at the site as their movements are wrecking Sonoma County's streets and roads whenever they enter or leave the site. How much money has the tribe spent or contributed to the County to pay for these incursions?
Why is the Rohnert Park City Council so cowed? How much have the members of this governing body been paid to keep quiet and to go along with whatever the tribe asks for with regard to the casino? Why isn't anyone asking the kind of questions that should be asked? Finally, what is really meant by "tribal sovereignty?" How far does it go? Are tribes with casinos really becoming states within California that will in time threaten whatever left of individual freedom in the state after Jerry Brown is through with us? Where will land owners who happen to live on wells around the site go to get satisfaction when their wells go dry and they have to sell off all of their livestock and move away? There are so many questions no one knows where to begin to get any answers. Certainly NOT to Mr. Serris!
There are fishy signs about this Rohnert Park casino/resort! Like no road or street improvements yet produced on any of the streets and roads surrounding the site. The earth-movers and heavy trucks are working away every day at the site as their movements are wrecking Sonoma County's streets and roads whenever they enter or leave the site. How much money has the tribe spent or contributed to the County to pay for these incursions?
Why is the Rohnert Park City Council so cowed? How much have the members of this governing body been paid to keep quiet and to go along with whatever the tribe asks for with regard to the casino? Why isn't anyone asking the kind of questions that should be asked? Finally, what is really meant by "tribal sovereignty?" How far does it go? Are tribes with casinos really becoming states within California that will in time threaten whatever left of individual freedom in the state after Jerry Brown is through with us? Where will land owners who happen to live on wells around the site go to get satisfaction when their wells go dry and they have to sell off all of their livestock and move away? There are so many questions no one knows where to begin to get any answers. Certainly NOT to Mr. Serris!