Now, they’re bickering with the governor over an appropriate time to reopen their casinos.<\/p>\n
\nDr. Ezekiel Emanuel, a medical official on the governor’s Reopen Connecticut Advisory Group, said recently regarding Foxwoods and Mohegan Sun, “The state should be hesitant about rushing in to opening those. I personally am very nervous about casinos. You can’t go outside, you have a high concentration of elderly people.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
The doctor added, “And the economic benefits are not large to the state, either in terms of employment or in terms of the number of GDP. But the risks to people’s health are very, very high.”<\/p>\n
Mashantucket Pequot Chairman Rodney Butler called Emanuel’s remarks “profoundly offensive and uninformed.” Foxwoods and Mohegan Sun employ approximately 12,000 workers, most of whom are currently not working.<\/p>\n
Under their gaming compacts with the state, the tribal casinos share 25 percent of their slot win with Connecticut. That figure totaled more than $433 million in 2006. In 2019: $245.5 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Connecticut tribes are moving forward with reopening their casino resorts June 1, much to the chagrin of Governor Ned Lamont (D). Lamont and the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation and Mohegan Tribe relations have been strained for many months. It’s not getting any better during the COVID-19 pandemic. Mashantucket Pequot’s Foxwoods and Mohegan’s namesake Mohegan Sun […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":137089,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[61,18456],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
Relationship Between Connecticut Tribes and Governor Continues Souring<\/title>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n