[Jeffmet3]

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LOL. Get off your soap box and come back when you have a law degree and 10 years of your time to invest. If you stopped to do your research you would learn its been tried before and failed, that Pataki tried to open 5 casinos upstate NY and that failed too (its not dead yet, but the Feds stopped the plan). A grass roots movement coordinated by a bunch of poker-player degenerates without clout, money, or legal experiance won't do anything.

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There will be casinos in upstate new york, catskill mountains.

It might take another 5-10 years, but it's inevitable.

A few tribes have made some very large aquisitions in preparation for this(what used to be the Concord Hotel among other things), as well as the changing of the major highway to increase funding for expansion.

If you'd like me to go more into the dynamics behind why it is needed and will eventually happen, let me know.

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I know about the Concord purchase, and also Spitzer's subsequent support but the deal is now off the table until they can get around the federal regulations that dictate how Indian tribes can declare sovereign lands. Unless there is new news since February I am not privy to, the deal is nearly dead.

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No real new news coming at the moment, but the mood on the eventual deal remains positive despite the setback. My family has owned land/been going up there for the past 60-odd years (summers) so I'm basing it more on information from prominent people up there then news sources. They've had slot machines at the Monticello Raceway for the past few, but full-blown casinos are really needed to give that area a shot in the arm and they're confident that this land deal will eventually be approved.

If I head up there for a little bit this summer I'll try and gather some more concrete information. Really rooting for the Concord though.