Exposing the Forest County Potawatomi's multimillion-dollar crusade to squash competition and wrangle a government-backed monopoly for its Milwaukee casino
What could you do with $5.4 million? You could educate more than 500 Wisconsin public school students for one year.Or feed nearly 30,000 hungry Wisconsin families for a month.
Or, if you’re the leaders of the Forest County Potawatomi Community, you could spend it on ridiculous ads, high-profile lobbyists, bogus economic data, publicity stunts, front groups and other costly tactics to try to kill the Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin’s proposed Kenosha casino, dodge competition and lock in Potawatomi’s regional gaming monopoly.
Learn the shocking details of Potawatomi’s multimillion-dollar campaign to stifle competition and preserve its monopoly in “A Litany of Greed,” a new white paper by Casino Competition for Wisconsin.
The competition-free Potawatomi Bingo Casino in Milwaukee has made the Forest County Potawatomi Community one of the richest tribes in the country – and they’ll do whatever it takes to keep it that way.
The Potawatomi have spent millions trying to kill the Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin’s plans for an entertainment destination center and casino in Kenosha, about 30 miles south of Milwaukee. Multiple economic studies confirm Southeast Wisconsin’s gaming market has plenty of room for the two facilities to succeed – but the Potawatomi aren’t about to loosen the steadfast grip on the monopoly their Milwaukee casino has held for nearly two decades.
The Menominee Tribe, one of the largest and poorest tribes in Wisconsin, simply can’t afford to match Potawatomi’s punches dollar-for-dollar. So the Kenosha project team has taken to the Web. “Casino Competition for Wisconsin” exposes the hypocrisy, inaccuracy, shameful conduct and selfishness behind the Potawatomi’s anti-competition efforts. It also addresses the thousands of family-sustaining jobs, multibillion-dollar payments to state and local governments and other significant economic benefits casino competition in Southeast Wisconsin would bring to the region and the state.
