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Source: Mashpee Wampanoag end contract with former congressman

By Tanner Stening
Posted Jul 22, 2019

MASHPEE — The Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe is no longer paying The Delahunt Group LLC, but the longtime lobbyist will continue working for the tribe on a pro-bono basis, according to sources.

The Delahunt Group, which is led by former Cape and Islands congressman Bill Delahunt, D-Quincy, filed a termination report on July 3 as a lobbying disclosure. The group received $30,000 during the first quarter of 2019 for work connected to the tribe’s ongoing effort to pass federal legislation that would protect the tribe’s sovereignty status and off-Cape land claims.

Last year, the tribe paid the firm $120,000, according to the lobbying database filings.

The Lobbying Disclosure Act requires that lobbyists file quarterly reports with the government if a client’s spending exceeds $3,000.

The tribe hired The Delahunt Group in March 2011 after working closely with the congressman in the tribe’s bid for federal recognition a decade earlier. Delahunt did not return a message requesting comment on the firm’s relationship with the tribe.

Tribal Council Chairman Cedric Cromwell could not be reached Monday through a spokesperson. He told the Times previously that Delahunt originally helped the tribe pursue gaming and navigate the federal bureaucracies for health care, housing and education for tribe members.

“He supported us in our pursuit of federal recognition,” Cromwell said. “He understands the tribe’s sovereign rights and the fight we had for 30-plus years for federal recognition.”

At the time, Delahunt had decried a federal government “replete with bureaucracy, impasse, inertia, and sometimes outright hostility” to tribes.

Delahunt’s lobbying firm has helped to identify and facilitate grants, sources said.

The tribe still has an arsenal of high-powered lobbyists working for it, including Dentons US LLP, Gavel Resources LLC and Ballard Partners, among others.

Lobbying disclosures reflect a $50,000 payment from Genting Malasia, the tribe’s financial backer, to Ballard Partners during the second quarter of the year, according to a July 17 filing.

Ballard Partners is run by Brian Ballard, who was President Donald Trump’s Florida finance chairman for his 2016 campaign. Dubbed “the most powerful lobbyist in Trump’s Washington” by Politico, Ballard has given hundreds of thousands of dollars to Republican causes over the past two years, according to data from the Federal Election Commission’s website.

But because of the tribe’s ongoing financial woes — and because Genting has stopped providing the tribe with loans — it is unclear if the lobbying firms are being paid for the work.

The Malaysian-based casino developer had fulfilled its contractual obligations to the tribe, according to tribal leaders, but is still backing efforts to stop a legal effort threatening the tribe’s 151 acres of reservation land in Taunton, where the tribe is looking to build a $1 billion casino.

ONE OF THE FIRST THINGS DONE IN MASSACHUSETTS WAS THE PUSH TO EXPAND ALCOHOL SERVICE....IT WAS PREDICTED THAT BEFORE THE INK WAS DRY, LOBBYISTS WOULD SEEK TO AMEND THE LEGISLATION.....
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Conn. ended push for 24-hour bars at casinos after crash

State had hoped to collect more slot machine profits

DRIVER CHARGED A sailor, Daniel E. Musser, 24, is charged with manslaughter and driving under the influence and faces up to 19 years in prison.

By Gregory B. Hladky

Globe Correspondent / March 22, 2009

HARTFORD - Officials looking to help solve Connecticut's multibillion-dollar deficit thought they had found an easy way to raise another $5 million a year: allow casinos to serve alcohol 24 hours a day.

A sailor, Daniel E. Musser, 24, is charged with manslaughter and driving under the influence and faces up to 19 years in prison.

DRIVER CHARGED

More hours of bar service would mean more gambling, they figured, which would mean the state could collect more slot machine profits.

But the proposal by Governor M. Jodi Rell's administration came to a sudden end at about 3:30 a.m. on March 7, when a car leaving the Mohegan Sun casino turned the wrong way down Interstate 395, headlights off, and slammed into a van full of college students on their way to Logan International Airport. They were scheduled for a flight to Uganda, where they had plans to help out at an orphan age over spring break.

Elizabeth Durante, a 20-year-old pre-med student at Connecticut College in New London, was killed.

The car's driver, Daniel E. Musser, 24, a sailor from the Naval Submarine Base in Groton, was charged with manslaughter and driving under the influence and faces up to 19 years in prison.

The next day, Rell called Durante's death "an unconscionable tragedy" and pulled back her budget proposal to make alcohol available 24 hours at the casinos.

"Even though this accident occurred under the laws as they have been for many years, the governor said it does give one pause to question the wisdom of extending liquor service hours at the casinos," Christopher Cooper, Rell spokesman, said recently. "We don't believe the bill is going to move forward this session."

Chuck Bunnell, chief of staff for the Mohegan Tribal Council, agreed.

"The Tribal Council in general has taken the position that it's time to pause and mourn the loss of this very bright light of humanity," Bunnell said, "that it's not appropriate to have those discussions right now."

Bunnell said the tribe was originally "approached on a bipartisan basis" by lawmakers looking for ways to increase state revenue.

Lori A. Potter, a spokeswoman for the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation, said analysts at the tribe's Foxwoods Resort Casino stand by their prediction that extending casino bar hours would result in an increase in state revenue.

"It is important to note that it would be impossible to find a more heavily regulated serving establishment in the state of Connecticut than the two casinos," Potter said.

Connecticut law requires the casinos' bars to stop serving by 1 a.m. Sunday through Thursday and by 2 a.m. Fridays and Saturdays. One of the arguments originally used in favor of allowing longer serving hours was that their competitors in Atlantic City serve alcohol 24 hours a day.

Legal hours for bars to serve alcohol vary greatly across the United States, according to Steven Schmidt, vice president for public policy at the National Alcohol Beverage Control Association.

In Massachusetts, for example, state law allows service until 11 p.m., but local governing bodies can extend the hours to 2 a.m. In states such as New Jersey and Nevada, Schmidt said, local authorities are allowed to set bar closing hours.

Charles H. Gartman, one of the students with Durante in the van that night, has difficulty understanding why anyone thought round-the-clock liquor at the casinos was a good idea.

"Twenty-four-hour bar service is a little bit ridiculous," Gartman said last week in a phone interview from his New York City home. "You can't trust everyone to drink and drive safely."

Gartman, 19 and a sophomore at Connecticut College, has not yet recovered from injuries he suffered in the crash.

The five other passengers also suffered injuries, some minor.

"Both my legs were pretty banged up, and at first I couldn't walk," he said. "I have pretty severe lacerations on my chin."

Nor has he recovered from the loss of Durante, of West Islip, N.Y. Gartman said it was Durante who got him interested in going to Uganda to aid orphaned children. "It was her enthusiasm for helping people," he recalled.

Stephanie Hinman, who was Durante's roommate and one of the students on the Uganda trip, finds it ironic that her friend would die at the hands of an accused drunk driver.

"Neither Liz nor I ever drank," Hinman said from her home in Norfolk, Conn.

"We lived together in the substance-free dorm."

In a 2007 interview with a college publication, Durante said she wanted to become a surgeon and work in Africa with Doctors Without Borders.

For Janice Heggie Margolis, executive director of the Connecticut chapter of Mothers Against Drunk Driving, Durante's death provided tragic evidence of why casino liquor hours should never be expanded.

She said the potential price to society of more fatal crashes is simply too high, no matter how much money might flow to the state. "This is exactly the reason why," Heggie Margolis said.

"You can never put on paper the cost of a life."

http://archive.boston.com/news/local/connecticut/articles/2009/03/22/conn_ended_push_for_24_hour_bars_at_casinos_after_crash/

Casino opponents want to curb tribe’s appeal of land ruling

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Casino opponents want 

to curb tribe’s appeal 

of land ruling

By Tanner Stening
Posted Oct 14, 2018

MASHPEE — Plaintiffs suing the Interior Department over its 2015 decision to take land into trust for the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe have requested that the tribe withdraw its appeal of the case or be required to file opening briefs within the next 60 days, according to the latest filing with the appeals court.

The request came after the tribe sought another stay in its ongoing appeal of a 2016 judgment in U.S. District Court in Boston that said the Interior Secretary did not have the authority to take its land into trust because the tribe was not under federal jurisdiction in 1934 — the year the Indian Reorganization Act was passed. Neighbors of a casino the tribe planned to build on land in Taunton had sued the federal government, challenging the Interior Department’s decision to take the land into trust in Taunton and in Mashpee.

In a boldly worded request filed with the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the 1st Circuit on Oct. 9, attorney David Tennant argued the tribe should not be permitted another stay in the appeal process because it opted to “take its chances” with a remanded review of their trust-lands eligibility, according to court documents.

Tribal attorneys on Sept. 27 requested a stay in the appeal of its case, according to court documents, until the resolution of a new suit, which it filed that same day. The new action challenges the Sept. 7 determination from the Interior that reversed an Obama-era decision to secure 321 acres of tribal land into trust. The agency’s latest ruling declared the tribe was not under federal jurisdiction in 1934.

Both parties to the original suit had waited more than two years for that remanded ruling. The Interior Department issued a draft of that same decision 14 months earlier, but withdrew it and asked for supplemental briefing on an issue “never before raised in any court or land-into-trust-proceeding,” according to Tennant.

For the next year, the Interior Department considered whether the tribe’s historical relationship to Massachusetts could be viewed as a substitute for the under federal jurisdiction requirement of the IRA. That theory ultimately did not pass muster.

When reached Sunday, Tennant said the tribe is avoiding the “inevitable, final conclusion” to the litigation, saying that Judge William Young’s original decision in 2016 was “free of doubt.”

Tennant said if the tribe be permitted another stay, the appeal could go dormant for years.

“It’s beyond any type of a normal stay,” he said.

“To say now that this 2016-filed appeal should be tacked onto the backend of a just-commenced lawsuit in a different circuit is not simply ‘moving the goalposts,’ it is relocating them into a different stadium,” Tennant wrote in the filing. “Enough’s enough.”

Tennant argued that the new lawsuit is an attempt to “hijack” the ongoing proceeding and “defeat the purpose of the parties’ joint stipulation.”

“I’ve done a ton of appellate work over the years, and I’ve never seen anything like this,” he said.

Tennant also argued that the “ghost” of a tribal casino has thwarted economic development in the region.

“When you have land that is not legally in trust, and there’s no economic development, it’s a bad situation for all parties,” he said.

Representatives of the tribe could not be reached for comment Sunday.

Mashpee Wampanoag Tribal Chairman Cedric Cromwell has repeatedly rebuked the lawsuit as being funded by an “anti-Indian,” competing casino interest, referring to Chicago-based developer Neil Bluhm.

Tribal leaders have also emphasized that the lawsuit more fundamentally threatens its ability to self-govern, should its land be removed from trust. It would be the first time since the so-called Termination Era in the 1950s that the federal government would effectively disestablish a tribal reservation it had previously proclaimed legal, according to legal experts and tribal citizens.

https://www.capecodtimes.com/news/20181014/casino-opponents-want-to-curb-tribes-appeal-of-land-ruling

Mashpee tribe to hold rally on land rights

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Mashpee tribe to hold rally on land rights

By Tanner Stening Posted Oct 1, 2018

MASHPEE — The Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe will hold a rally Saturday centered on the importance of land sovereignty.

The event is scheduled for 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. and is meant to raise awareness of sovereignty “and its critical importance to the Mashpee Wampanoag,” according to a statement from the tribe.

The uncertainty of the trust status of the reservation poses a threat to the tribe’s programs and needed services, the statement says.

A walk will begin at the Mashpee Community Park on Great Neck Road North and end at the traditional powwow grounds next to the Community and Government Center at 483 Great Neck Road South. A potluck meal will follow, and authorities on indigenous rights will speak. The statement does not name the speakers.

A tribal spokeswoman said the event was open to non-tribe members.

http://www.capecodtimes.com/news/20181001/mashpee-tribe-to-hold-rally-on-land-rights

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Happening Today Prescription drug misuse meeting Gov. Charlie Baker, Health and Human Services Secretary Marylou Sudders and Public Health Commissioner Monica Bharel meet with representatives of the Massachusetts Physician Assistant and Advanced Practice Registered Nurse Program and the Massachusetts League of Community Health Centers regarding prescription drug misuse, 11 a.m., Room 157, State House. New prescription monitoring system A new multimillion-dollar version of the state's prescription monitoring program, called the Massachusetts Prescription Awareness Tool (MassPAT), is scheduled to go live Monday. MassDOT board meeting MassDOT’s board will meet to review and discuss a number of issues, including all-electronic tolling, the Green Line extension, and a capital expense agreement with the MBTA, 10 Park Plaza, 2nd floor, Boston, 12 p.m. STEM Summer Academy As of late last week, Gov. Baker, Lt. Gov. Karyn Polito, Education Secretary Jim Peyser and House Speaker Robert DeLeo were scheduled to visit the STEM Summer Academy at Bunker Hill Community College, Bunker Hill Community College, 1:30 p.m.

Today's News Big Brother roadways One of the initial concerns about the state’s new all-electronic tolling system on the Mass Pike and elsewhere was that law enforcement officials could actually track the speed of motorists driving under the huge sensor-stuffed gantries that will replace toll booths. Now it turns out that law enforcement officials, via a “hot list” feature on the new gantries, can and will track specific license plates or transponder passes that drive under the new toll systems, reports the Globe’s Matt Rocheleau. Officials say that “hot list” will only track vehicles in public safety emergencies. But civil liberty advocates are alarmed. “There’s a real possibility for abuse and misuse with this kind of technology,” said Kade Crockford, director of the Technology for Liberty Project at the American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts. “We need to discuss this publicly. We need outside legal experts to be involved in helping MassDOT set appropriate policies that won’t violate people’s rights.” Not to harp on the issue, but the same civil liberty concerns apply to the proposed VMT (vehicles miles traveled) tax idea that Gov. Charlie Baker just recently vetoed, to the chagrin of some public policy wonks, like former Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation president Michael Widmer, who recently penned a piece at CommonWealth magazine bemoaning Baker’s nixing a study on taxing motorists by how much they drive. But think about it: A VMT would require motorists to report to the government exactly how many miles they drive per year in order to assess a tax. Combined with “hot wire” and other roadway sensors, cameras and other gadgets, government officials would then have the capability of knowing how many miles people drive, where they drive, when they drive and even how they drive – all in the name of roadway revenues and public safety. And, of course, they’ll also be able to determine whether or not drivers take shortcuts to destinations, assuming one day officials start to subpoena Waze traffic-direction software, another reason why George Donnelly, writing in the Globe, should ignore his wife’s advice about following the Voice of Waze. Boston Globe Local Clinton fundraisers attract bigwigs galore – and a lot of cash Treating Massachusetts like one big campaign ATM, Hillary Clinton swept into the state again over the weekend for several fundraisers, including one in Osterville yesterday that raised a cool $1.4 million, reports the Globe’s Jim O’Sullivan. The Osterville event attracted a who’s who of business and civic leaders: Jack Connors, John Fish, Anne Finucane, Frank McCourt, Larry Rasky, Bryan Rafanelli, Terry Ragon, Jeremy Allaire, Steve Weiner, Jon Davis, and Howard Kessler, all at the home of Elaine and Gerald Schuster, reports O’Sullivan, citing an anonymous attendee. Clinton also attended another star-studded fundraiser in Provincetown on Sunday that raised $1.5 million,reports K.C. Myers at the Cape Cod Times. That’s the event that included Cher, in case you didn’t know. Liz ‘trying out’ new line of attack on Trump Now that her biting Twitter barbs are no longer eliciting responses from Donald Trump, U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren appears to be shifting her attack-dog tactics against the Republican presidential nominee, the Herald’s Jack Encarnacao reports: “In an invitation to the Robxury Community College event (on Thursday), the progressive darling says she has been ‘working on a new presentation on how the playing field got tilted against America’s middle class — and what we can do to fight back. I’ll be trying out this talk in Roxbury, and I’d love for you to join us.’” Boston Herald Curt, Curt, Curt and more Curt You can tell the media is deep-down pumped over the prospect of Curt Schilling running against U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren in 2018. Last week, there were multiple reports about Mayor Walsh’s swipes at the former Red Sox ace. “I’m sure that the video game scandal that he had in Rhode Island will never come up,” Walsh deadpanned on Herald Radio late last week, reports Boston magazine’s Kyle Scott Clauss. Then the Globe’s Yvonne Abraham unloaded on Curt: “Nothing comes for free, not even after 86 humiliating years. Reversing the curse to win the 2004 World Series had to come with a price. That price is Curt Schilling.” The Herald’s Holly Robichaud this morning is begging Curt’s wife, Shonda, to let Curt run. The Herald’s Matt Stout has an interesting point: Would a Schilling vs Warren showdown actually harm Gov. Charlie Baker’s re-election bid, if the Dem base is energized and turns out en force to defend Warren? It’s a valid concern for the Republican governor. Then again William Weld, a Republican, won re-election by a landslide in 1994, despite the bruising Romney vs Kennedy Senate fight that same year. Tito’s time? Meanwhile, the Herald this morning is really playing up a potential Marty Walsh vs Tito Jackson showdown in next year’s mayoral race. Never mind that Jackson, a city councilor, has yet to say whether he’ll run or not. Dan Atkinson has the mainbar article in the three-story spread. Links to the other two Tito stories can be found at the bottom of Dan’s piece. Boston Herald ***** As first family leaves, Vineyard debates Obama impact With President Obama and his family gone from Martha’s Vineyard, islanders say the summer sojourns are both boon and bane for various parts of the local economy, report Ethan Genter and K.C. Myers of the Cape Cod Times. While some restaurants and gift shops see increased traffic and some hotels benefit from putting up hordes of Secret Service agents, the downsides include reduced traffic at the local airports and increased costs for some municipalities that provide public safety support. Cape Cod Times Bill Weld: The Ralph Nader of 2016? Boston magazine’s Simon Van Zuylen-Wood has a big profile of former Massachusetts Gov. Bill Weld and his quixotic quest for vice president on this year’s Libertarian ticket. The conventional wisdom has it that the Johnson-Weld ticket could suck votes away from Trump. But what if the duo also attracts potential Hillary Clinton voters? Van Zuylen-Wood writes: “Polls show that Clinton’s overall lead over Trump tends to dip about a percentage point when Johnson’s name is included. ‘Trump voters are mainly Trump voters,’ Monmouth University pollster Patrick Murray told Politico in August. ‘But Clinton voters are still not quite happy that they’re going to end up voting for her.’ Which is to say: If Weld siphons support from Never Trumpers who have already defected from the Donald, he’s more likely to pull from Hillary Clinton. And come November 9, he could be generating comparisons to the dread Ralph Nader.” Boston magazine We’re No. 1 … in bomb threats Massachusetts recorded 135 bomb threats against schools in the last school year, the most in the country, frustrating educators and emergency responders alike, Denise Lavoie of the Associated Press reports at the Gloucester Times, citing data from the Educator’s School Safety Network. That’s the most in the country -- and some in the state’s public safety community believe the actual figure is far higher and that multiple threats of various levels are actually received each school day.  Gloucester Times Fresolo faces climb to win back seat Former Rep. John Fresolo will face an uphill battle to reclaim the 16th Worcester district seat he held for 14 years before resigning amid an ethics investigation, Tom Quinn of Worcester Magazine reports. Fresolo—who has owned and operated a Worcester pub since leaving office—will need to stage a write-in campaign as an independent and will face the incumbent Democrat, Dan Donahue. Worcester magazine Tribe’s sovereignty could be at stake in casino fight For the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe, much more than the right to operate the First Light casino in East Taunton may be at stake in its ongoing court battle, Sean Murphy of the Globe reports. The tribe’s hard-won sovereignty over land it now holds—including 150 acres in Mashpee—could be lost if higher courts uphold a federal judge’s decision that found the Department of the Interior ignored a 1934 law when it allowed the tribe to convert property in both Mashpee and Taunton into reservation land. Boston Globe Payment deals with non-profits on the rise in Massachusetts More cities and towns are striking agreements with tax-exempt nonprofits as reduced state aid and other factors pinch budgets, Grant Welker of the Lowell Sun reports. Lowell is trying to craft a master agreement with the University of Massachusetts in what has become a delicate back-and-forth familiar to other communities. "It's an issue that's been around for a long time. It's certainly not new," said John Robertson, legislative director for the Massachusetts Municipal Association, “It's just a bigger issue than it was before.”  Lowell Sun Woman who bit off cop’s ear denied bail A woman accused of biting off the ear of a Salem police officer while she was being arrested has been denied bail by a Salem Superior Court judge, reports Julie Manganis at the Salem News. The ruling came just hours after an Essex County grand jury indicted Emma Wiley, 19, with various assault and battery charges, resisting arrest, carrying a fake driver’s license and causing general mayhem. Wiley’s attorney said his client suffers from mental illness, but prosecutors and police say she was just pure trouble after she was arrested earlier this month after Salem police responded to a report of a fight outside a tavern. Of the biting incident, Manganis writes: “Police say Wiley, who had been yelling threats while being carried to the cruiser, began to shake her head back and forth, releasing her bite only after Rondinelli stuck her finger in Wiley's eye. Officers later found a bite-sized piece of Rondinelli's ear on the floor of the police cruiser, but doctors were unable to reattach it.” Salem News Hacks vs Flacks Garrett Quinn, a former journalist and current spokesman for the Baker administration's Executive Office of Administration and Finance, proudly announces that the third annual Hacks vs Flacks softball game will be played today at Boston Common at 6:30 p.m. The game is being touted as the “rubber match” between journalists and press spokesmen. Then there’s this plot twist: “Quinn, the former manager of the Hacks, is the first player to change teams in the softball series.” Ah, the Johnny Damon of local softball. Today's Headlines Metro Marty Walsh trying to help black, Latino males with grant program - Boston Herald Buzz of clash at Tito Jackson critiques Marty Walsh’s reign - Boston Herald In Boston’s Newmarket Square, an uneasy coexistence between homeless, businesses - WGBH Massachusetts Obama’s Vineyard vacation both boon and burden for island economy - Cape Cod Times More Mass. towns, cities seek payment deals with tax-exempt entities - Lowell Sun As drought intensifies, so does battle over Brockton’s water resources - Brockton Enterprise Schilling-Warren Senate race would impact gov’s re-election bid - Boston Herald In casino battle, tribe’s sovereignty could be at risk - Boston Globe Privacy concerns grow over Pike electronic tolling system - Boston Globe Stormwater legal challenge brewing in Central Mass. - Telegram & Gazette Westborough School Committee member resigns after arrest - MetroWest Daily News Cities seek new liquor licenses - Salem News Massachusetts frustrated by number of school bomb threats - Gloucester Times Cher, Hillary Clinton wow crowd at Provincetown fundraiser - Cape Cod Times Fresolo looking for redemption in independent state Rep. bid - Worcester Magazine Acushnet moderator: Please behave at special town meeting over LNG proposal - Standard-Times Nation Democrats debate the size of a Clinton victory - Politico In push to win centrists, Trump campaign wavers on immigration - Washington Post Bernie Sanders eyes return to campaign trail, this time for Hillary Clinton - Boston Globe Don’t bet on Ruth Bader Ginsburg retiring if Clinton becomes president - Washington Post