YOU LOSE YOUR SHIRT, THE TRIBES GET RICH, THE STATE GETS SCREWED AND CAN YOU BELIEVE IT THE CASINO THAT JUST TOOK YOUR SHIRT MAY END UP WITH YOUR PROPERTY, LITERALLY!!

CHICKASAW NATION JULY 2005 REVENUE
July Revenue $47,700,210
Gaming expenses $25,637,726

TRIBE’S GAMING INCOME SOARING. by Anthony Thornton, The Oklahoman 08/20/05
Documents obtained Friday indicate the Chickasaw tribe expects gamblers to lose $6.9 billion at its casinos, trading posts and smokeshops in fiscal 2006. Projected gross revenue -- after winners are paid but before operating expenses -- is $293.2 million.

TRIBAL PAYOUT FROM CASINOS FALL SHORT By Anthony Thornton, The Oklahoman
Tribal casinos paid the state $1 million for games played in July, the state finance office reported Friday.
While that figure was 43 percent more than payments from the previous month, it was still far below expectations.
Eleven months remain for the state to make the remaining $51.8 million of a $52.8 million projection from tribal and racetrack gambling.

LANDOWNERS AIM TO DEFEND THEIR DOMAIN By Luke Engan, CNHI News Service 08/24/05
When an electric authority aimed to string a power transmission line to the Windstar Casino in Love County, it didn’t count on Joe Heim.
“They’re not used to people like ourselves who got up on our hind legs and fought back,” said Heim of six owners who retained an attorney in protest to the plan.

So far, no construction has begun.

Speaking before legislators considering changes to Oklahoma’s eminent domain law, Heim said the Chickasaw Nation is paying for the supplemental power line. It could be built along existing rights-of-way, but the nation chose instead to run it across Heim’s property on an Interstate 35 exit,

Heim said. Surveyors who intended to keep the line at the edge of his land mistakenly mapped it across the middle and refused to change their plans, according to Heim.

He said the corporation offered $70 per yard to run the line across his land — then pursued a court settlement to take the easement in the name of the public good.

Tuesday was the second of three meetings for the unofficial task force, led by Sen. Clark Jolley, R-Edmond. The group aims to propose legislation in response to the landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision Kelo v. City of New London, Conn.

The court held that condemning private property for use by private developers is allowed under federal law, prompting property owners around the country to rally for protective state laws.