By: Jim Lane, mayor of Scottsdale; Linda Kavanagh, mayor of Fountain Hills; John Insalaco, mayor of Apache Junction, and Thomas Schoaf, mayor of Litchfield Park.
The Arizona Republic
(Editor’s note: Opinion pieces are published for discussions purposes only.)
As mayors of Valley cities, we believe the potential Glendale casino represents no cause for celebration. From the Tohono O’odham Nation’s secret plan to put a casino in the Valley to their breaking faith with the voters of Arizona who in 2002 narrowly approved the current tribal gaming compacts, the path to the construction of this casino has been pockmarked by deceit.
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