Democratic and Republican legislators sent a letter to Gov. Scott Walker Wednesday requesting he reconsider his decision to deny the Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin permission to construct a casino in Kenosha County.
Walker announced his rejection of the proposal last Friday, citing the financial risk to taxpayers.
The letter, signed by 10 Kenosha area representatives, claimed that Wisconsin taxpayers were already protected in the case of any lawsuit from other tribes. Aside from a previous agreement to compensate the state for any legal costs, the Menominee and their Hard Rock International partners agreed to post a bond to protect taxpayers following Walker’s announcement.
The legislators also described the potential of any lawsuit in the letter as “unlikely to be successful.”
“The benefits are too great, the opportunity is too extraordinary, for you to not give this a second look,” the representatives concluded in the letter.
