Well the tribes are getting into the money game big time as the elections near.

Tim Hamilton, director of the Automotive United Trades Organization, a service-station trade association that has long been critical of the state’s gas-tax deals with Indian tribes, says the tribal interests have been getting their money’s worth at the statehouse. And it’s no wonder they’re willing to pony up. “I don’t have a problem with the tribes or their members,” he says. “But they came to town and saw a for-sale sign on the Rotunda, and they got a phenomenal rate of return. They can turn over $1 million in campaign contributions and get $50 million out of the state treasury each year. Can you blame them? No, I blame the people who put the for sale sign on the building.”

The full read. http://washingtonstatewire.com/blog/trib...million-so-far/