A picture's worth a thousand words ...
Indian Casinos? ... or Detroit Gaming Syndicate's Casinos?
If you had any question before ... this picture should leave little doubt about what's really going on in Barstow, CA.
Location: Barwest LLC casino site, Lenwood Rd., Barstow, CA
Date: April 4, 2005 (sign erected approximately April 1, 2005)
News of the Detroit-backed project was first reported in the Desert Dispatch June 3, 2003:
Casino proposed for Barstow
Detroit Red Wings owner would team with Los Coyotes Indian tribe
"One of the people behind Little Caesar's Pizza and similar casino ventures in Michigan announced plans Monday to bring an Indian casino and more than 2,600 jobs to Barstow."
"Marian Ilitch, a Michigan businesswoman who, with her husband, owns ventures that include Little Caesar Enterprises and the Detroit Red Wings, a National Hockey League team, said her organization BarWest LLC is working with the Los Coyotes Band of the Cahuilla American Indian tribe to build a Las Vegas-style casino in Barstow. "
But when the billboard was erected two years later, there was no "Indian Casino" nor "Indian gaming" reference; nor mention that it was the "Los Coyotes Tribe's" casino.
Two months before the sign was erected The Desert Dispatch reported principals behind Barwest had introduced Big Lagoon Chairman Virigil Moorehead to the Barstow City Council members in secret closed-door meetings and informed them there would be a second casino in the project but when the sign was erected, no reference to Big Lagoon Rancheria or dual casinos were on the billboard. Absolutely no reference to "Indian" or "Native American" is found anywhere on the sign.
Some time later, apparently acknowledging the Freudian slip up and failure to include the minor detail that these were to be Indian casinos for a specific tribe(s), Barwest had a second version of this sign produced and erected in its place.
Note: This post pushed Tom Shields’ buttons enough that he left his “cut & paste” shallow boilerplate protest in a comment below. Here are some of the other posts that got Shields’ attention as well ...
Monday, February 26, 2007
Barstow Casino Billboard - picture's worth a thousand words
3 comments:
I find this to be misleading to all land speculators or companies that are considering businss ventures in the vincinity of the proposed casino.
The lies, misinformation and misrepresentations on this blog are too numerous to mention and don't deserve the time it would take to respond. Someone has obviously spent a lot of time and money in an attempt to malign the character of the people being attacked here. It's no wonder the author is anonymous.
If you want the truth and the facts about the Barstow Casino resort project, the Shinnecock Tribe or the Port Huron Casino Resort proposal...you won't find them here. Go to barstowcasinosandresort.com or contact me at toms@mrgmi.com. We won't hide behind some anonymous blog.
Tom Shields
The lies that are on here huh? Well how about the lies that are being spread by Barwest about Barstow. I have been to the website for the Barstow Casino, and what I find very interesting is that you claim that there are no tribes that call the Barstow area home. Well if you even did an ounce of checking you would see that according to the Western Shoshone Nation and the Treaty of Ruby Valley that Barstow is smack dab in the middle of Shoshone lands. And from a news article in the Desert Dispatch the City of Barstow, Barwest, and the Los Coyotes no this fact. So who's the one not telling the truth? In fact I find it hard to believe that the publishers of this Blog haven't stumbled across this very well known fact.
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