Detroit casinos say they would lose 15 to 20 percent of their smoking customers to Native-run casinos even though the nearest one -- Saganing Eagle's Landing Casino in Standish -- is 142 miles from the MGM Grand.
In what may have been a Machiavellian maneuver, Senate Republicans eager to look good to their constituents but not necessarily bad to their "small government" core, last week amended the smoking ban bill to include politically powerful Detroit casinos and then returned it to the Democratically controlled House as if raising the ante in a high-stakes poker game.
For the full article, please see Todd Spencer, Casinos bluffing House Dems to slow smoking ban?, Michigan Messenger, May 18, 2008.
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