July 2, 2008 - 5:37pm
Report: Nevada Reps. help deny Michigan tribes casino land
By Michael Gsovski
U.S. Rep. Shelley BerkleyA bipartisan trio of U.S. Representatives from Nevada last week defeated a bill that would give two Native American tribes land in the suburbs of Detroit and Port Huron. Their reason for doing so, according to the Las Vegas Sun, was to protect the interests of the MGM Mirage corporation which has a hotel and casino outside of Detroit that it has spent over a billion dollars developing.
"The Nevada lawmakers' stunningly lopsided victory," Lisa Mascaro wrote in the Sun, showed "the far-flung efforts Nevada's representatives undertake on behalf of the home-state industry as gaming interests spread across the country."
The Nevada representatives -- Shelley Berkley (D-Las Vegas), Dean Heller(R-Carson City) and Jon Porter (R-Henderson) -- had opposed the bills at every turn. Heller had opposed it when it gone to the Natural Resources committee in February, and the others joined in during the months before the vote in the full House last week, according to the Sun.
By the time the final vote came, Berkley was standing outside the House chamber, handing out fliers in opposition to the bill and urging her colleagues to vote against it.
The final vote was 121-298.
According to the Center for Responsive Politics, The MGM Mirage corporation and its employees is responsible for giving $157,450 to the current campaigns of the three, with Berkley receiving the most money ($79,000).
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Congress Shelly Berkley
Race is alive in the Judaical System in America!!
Listen close Shelly Berkley proxies war read threw it:
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Propagandist looking for a way for many more beautiful loving Americans to die. In a war keep supporting a war is the real idea here right?
All the while Americans have all there rights invaded in Las Vegas because of race and sex crimes.
War is not the answer Congress Shelly Berkley neither is abuse of the Judaical system to protect religious leaders you know right?
Congress Shelly Berkley having religious leaders and supporters lawyers invading United States Passports, Governments personal records with out a court order: of Americans born Citizens to very large military families: just to harass them because they were attacked by a Jewish religious leader in a sexual assault with a conviction in that case: punish the victim any way: invade and do a race blood investigation; denying Americans the right to pray is right?
Congress Shelly Berkley do you believe in harassing, degrading and punishments for sex victims is the answer either?
Congress Shelly Berkley do you believe in a "fair civil trial" where both sides get "Federal Discovery laws depositions and discover" but not for sex victims?
Congress Shelly Berkley do you believe in the "United States Constitution" for all or just for a few?
Congress Shelly Berkley who supported the war??
Congress Shelly Berkley just because a child is half Iranian do you believe they must be persecuted by lawyers you are associated with?
Congress Shelly Berkley if a sex victim is persecuted and degraded for having a religious leaders arrested: comes close to death does that not matter in America any more?
Congress Shelly Berkley do you believe "Convictive Sex Offenders should file "Bankruptcy" for the "Sex Conviction and be Protected" by the "Trustee 13 Kathleen Leavitt" Las Vegas, from a fair civil trial?
Congress Shelly Berkley do you believe that is OK then for a "Convictive Sex Offender" protected and not sent back to civil court and the victims then are punished and must to pay defendants/lawyers close to two hundred thousands?
Hate punishments right?
Congress Shelly Berkley??
Proxies Propagandas War is not the answer?
The Persecuted American Born Victim
Zissa Ramani
Race Profiling of American Indains
Congress Shelly Berkley
Let me tell you what a race harassing question is. A lawyer who gets money from Safeco America Insurance to question if an American is part American Indian.
Race blood profilers.
Inside of Lionel Sawyer and Collins law office Mark Solomon/Elizabeth Brickfield in front of Rabbi Harlig and Michael Segelstein a convictive sex offender on depositions used insurance money to question me the victim of a sex crime. If I was an America Indian that is what you call a race question.
What does being part America Indian have to do with sex crimes???
Abusers haters of America Indains
America Abuse Impeach
Congress Shelly Berkley are Americans under news laws by this video at the House Floor. We are in question of that at this time. Please let the American people know what they are dying for in a war?
Congress Shelly Berkley do you have any money invested in any war products that murder humans?
Can it be just an insult to victims in America?
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Rabbi Shea Harlig of Chabad of Southern Nevada delivering the ...
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Indian Women Raped
While more than 17 million women have been raped in their life, according to a Department of Justice 2006 report, ""American Indian women"" reported the highest numbers of rape of any other racial or ethnic group in the United States, at a rate 2.5 times higher than the national average. [...]
Amnesty International, a worldwide human rights organization, has spent two years researching sexual assaults in urban and reservation areas. Amnesty officials have scheduled an April 24 press conference at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. The following day, organization leaders will release a report titled, "USA: Maze of Injustice - The Failure to Protect Indigenous Women from Sexual Violence." [...]
The U.S. Justice Department reports that the majority of violent crimes against American Indian women are "committed by white men".
You read that right. Most of the rapists of American Indian women and girls are "white men". To me that indicates a high level of bigotry in both attitudes about who is seen as "asking for it" and who is seen as powerless to get justice.
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