Kevin Jones, the Genting rep. has a hard time telling the truth about anything. He will likely be the bearer of bad news…alone. The token.
Since September, Genting has made clear they want whatever they can recover from the disgraceful debt dumped on the tribe. That $400m was disclosed in a report in a gaming periodical in September. Genting was very matter of fact about it. Since we have nothing to pay back the debt, they will take the Taunton land. And of course we will have no income to pay even the most basic governmental bills.
Cedric meanwhile will offer some lame gobbledygook explanation for the end we all knew was coming. We’ve got 5 weeks before the next wave of layoffs. After that, it’s all about Shovel Ready Ceddie and the paid council and officers who are blowing threw the last million dollars at about $500K a month. They are not only taking their salaries but advances on vacation pay and sick leave. None of them hit a lick of work so the jokes on us. But the last 10 years have not been funny. Cedric has destroyed us, gotten rich Nothing like sucking us dry eh? The situation is clearly ripe for a lawsuit.
Now that the obvious is about to happen and that means Genting will stop paying for everything because we are no worth to them. Cut and run. Worst of all, Cedric kept egging them on with his BS and a totally flawed land in trust application that had no evidence that we were under federal jurisdiction in 1934. What made it worse, they spun the Department of Interior abandonment of our effort as part of Trump racism saying that DOI walked away because we “were not Indian.” The spin was ridiculous in light of the fact that SRC tried to mask their incompetence with racism. The story was a horrible Thanksgiving piece that only served to undermine our credibility. Over 30 years of struggle for credibility undermined by a wannabe
Trish struggles to be relevant. So painful to watch.
desperate to hold on to power and money.Luckily it had no impact. Oh yeah what about
Why would Cedric put our fate in the hands of DOI Sec. Zinke who is a weirdo and facing a dozen congressional investigations? Right. Did they visit in DC?
the great protest/rally in DC in the middle of November to to pressure the DOI to defend us …oh you missed that one bus wonder did you? Another boneheaded idea by Trish Keliinui. She gets paid good money for really bad ideas. Someone need to tell her how to build a crowd and break threw the media racket. Not that sharp ya know.
Cedric is not Mashpee because he knows nothing about us. Embedded in our recognition profile is the fact that we are the most credentialed tribe in the United States, that’s according to the Bureau of Indian Affairs. We have more proof of our consistent participation in tribal customs than any other. 400 years worth. Not 200 or 150 years but 400 years worth. We don’t need anyone to define our lineage or heritage. Each tribal member has documentmentation dating back 300 years. He was willing to sacrifice our tribal integrity in a very weak strategy of pressuring DOI. That agency is in turmoil and could care less about the Mashpee debacle. Cedric does it again.
And Cedric did not know what the ” roll ” is. He’s running what’s left of the tribe…..right into the ground.
