Whether or not WI would get enough of the "jobs and money" is kind of irrelevant to me. It wouldn't have cost us, not counting the compact fight with the Potawatomi. And it would have used the defunct dog track site.  A minor net gain in ancillary development like gas stations etc. nearby just from the traffic is probably enough to do it.

And the upside is that in the ensuing fight, we'd most likely win in fed court, and with the Indian affairs bureau and the Potawatomi would be reined in a bit.

I think the BIGGER issue is that this proves that Scott Walker isn't the "warrior" everyone let Act 10 and the recall efforts against him led many of us to think he is. Everyone forgets he offered the .gov and teachers unions a plan with minor concessions of a few percentage points, all he wanted was just enough to balance the state budget, but they made the big mistake of telling him to FOAD every time, until he had no choice, and since he knew it would be a shitstorm, might as well go for the brass-ring.

He'll fight the good fight, but ONLY if his back is in a corner and he has no choice. It's clear to me that whenever Walker has a path-of-least resistance or easy out, he'll take it. Right as he's making his run in national politics, he's not listening to his base right here in WI. His milquetoast reaction to Right-to-Work and some other issues, like not having a raging hard-on to gut the GAB and rebuild it as something bearing some semblance to sanity prove it.

Instead of hard-charging, and working to pass every little bit of the conservative agenda they can like they're going to be turned out of office next week, and setting up every last permanent structural change possible in state government to limit the Democrats ability to re-fuck the state if/when they gain power back. Instead he's following the pattern of what the GOP ALWAYS DOES, winning, doing one or two big things, then sitting on their ass.

I'm sure the 3K jobs figure is inflated, and counts every last vendor, and construction worker that would ever step foot in the casino for a brief period of time.

That said, it would still have been better than "nothing" and under the current compacts, each tribe's casino passes a few hundred million or whatever to the WI .gov every year directly as part of the agreement. Bitching that the Seminoles would "take all the money to Florida" was a big "so what?" The state would have still got it's millions in payments one way or another. And it was millions that wouldn't exist if there's no casino so nothing's lost.

(The gamblers themselves? Fuck em. But then I'm the kind of guy who'd "treat" a drug addict by setting up two tables, one with a plane ticket to a rehab clinic, and one with an overdose of heroin and syringes, and a couple bottles of Everclear for something to drink, and walk out of the room and let the addict decide...)

It's true that the shitty Doyle compacts did state that without unanimous agreement from all tribes, another casino couldn't open, and if the state approves it anyway, the agreement was void. However that didn't mean that the Indian casinos got to operate free and clear in perpetuity and didn't have to pay WI anymore. Just that the Indian gambling casino compacts with the fed.gov bureau of Indian affairs and WI would hammer out new compacts. And then after the pissing and moaning, the fed.gov Indian arbitrators and federal court would rule, and some new agreement, probably BETTER than Doyle's shitty ones would be in place.

It wasn't a sure thing, but the federal courts and the bureau of Indian affairs have NEVER once sided with the tribes in any State vs. Indian tribe casino dispute.

It's looking to me more and more like Walker is going to be a one-hit wonder with Act 10 and CCW, and eliminating the double-dip taxes for WI businesses with out-state officers.  I hope I'm wrong, but his cowardice on Right to Work and now the Casino seems to be a trend.

If this guy can't stand up to a bunch of fat diabetic Indians in downtown Milwaukee in the east end of the Pigsville valley, especially after the hell Act 10 put him and his family through,  how the hell are we supposed to believe he can stand up to Putin, China, Iran, or ISIS if he's POTUS?