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Mississippi Choctaws say $13 million Alabama claim untrue
 Message was posted: 12:07 Jul 3rd, 2006     
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Riley is in a little trouble during re-election bid this year over this.

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MONTGOMERY, Ala. A spokeswoman for the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians says the tribe did not spend 13 (m) million dollars on the 2002 race for governor in Alabama.

Chassidy Wilson, who works in the tribe's public relations office, told the New York Times Regional Newspapers that claim is -- quote -- "outlandish and patently false."

The U-S Senate's Indian Affairs Committee issued a report last week quoting William Worfel, a former vice chairman of the Coushatta Tribe of Louisiana, about his discussions with disgraced Washington lobbyist Jack Abramoff, whose clients included the Mississippi Choctaws and their two casinos in Philadelphia, Mississippi.

The report stated the money was donated to help anti-gambling groups keep casinos out of Alabama.

Republican Bob Riley won that election on a platform that included fighting any expansion of gambling in the state.

A spokesman for Riley said Tuesday the claim about the money couldn't be correct because that would represent nearly every dollar Riley reported raising and spending on his 2002 race.

Wilson said in a statement yesterday the tribe made no contributions in Alabama's 2002 race for governor.





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