Lobbyist To Fmr. Bush Admin. Official: "We Worked Hard To Get This President Elected And We Expected To Be Rewarded For It"...

Raw Story David Edwards June 22, 2006 at 02:52 PM
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In an interview with CBS News Wednesday evening, Wayne Smith, a Sioux tribal member whose grandfather was an Indian chief and previously led oversight of Indian gaming for the Bush Adminstration, said he was unprepared for the "raw political opportunism" that he witnessed as a member of the Administration.

"I had lobbyist flat tell me that it was 'out time to make some money in Indian gaming -- the Indian arena -- we worked hard to get this president elected and we expected to be rewarded for it' -- to make a killing inside the BIA [Bureau of Indian Affairs]," Smith says in the interview.
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