By Doug MacEachern | The Arizona Republic
(Editor’s note: Rose Law Group represents state House and Senate leadership in the legal fight opposing the casino.)
Support for a new gambling palace in Glendale always has turned on a single issue, a single question:
Just how cool are you with being lied to?
We’re not talking about being “lied to” in the way that a clever advertising campaign makes something look better than it is. Or how some politicians will say anything to get their way. We’re not talking about “If you like your health insurance, you can keep it” kinds of lies here. That’s pedestrian stuff.
No, if you want to believe that a new tribal-owned casino in the center of the West Valley is a good idea — and, truly, many people do — you have to place yourself in one of two categories.
Either you have to maintain an almost aggressive ignorance of some very recent, carefully documented history … or you have to declare yourself indifferent to having participated in a sensational, statewide dupe-fest.
