{"id":4336,"date":"2017-06-06T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-06-06T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mundovideo.com.co\/en\/america\/new-casino-opening-mississippi-rejects-tribal-petitions\/"},"modified":"2017-06-06T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-06-06T00:00:00","slug":"new-casino-opening-mississippi-rejects-tribal-petitions","status":"publish","type":"america","link":"https:\/\/www.mundovideo.com.co\/en\/america\/new-casino-opening-mississippi-rejects-tribal-petitions\/","title":{"rendered":"New Casino opening: Mississippi rejects tribal petitions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"justify\"><font size=\"4\">A petition regarding the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians&rsquo; decision to build its fourth tribal casino in The Magnolia State has failed. The only federally-recognized tribe in the southern state was faced with the prospect of being required to hold a tribal referendum to officially ratify a proposition that would see it spend about $25 million to build its new Red Water Casino in Leake County.<\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><font size=\"4\">Members of a group calling itself &ldquo;Chahta for Better Government,&rdquo; said the referendum process is far from over after tribal officials rejected more than 100 signatures for a petition to require a tribal vote on the Red Water Casino.<\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><font size=\"4\"><span><a href=\"\/america\/connecticut-in-the-middle-of-a-casinos-opening-legal-war\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #00f; text-decoration: underline;\" rel=\"noopener\">YOU MAY ALSO LIKE: CONNECTICUT IN THE MIDDLE OF A CASINOS OPENING LEGAL WAR<\/a><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><font size=\"4\"><span>&nbsp;<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><font size=\"5\">&ldquo;WE DO NOT KNOW THE REASONS FOR THEIR REFUSAL AND WE DO NOT KNOW WHOSE PETITION WAS REFUSED. WE WILL HAVE TO GO TO COURT TO FIND OUT THEIR REASONS WHY THEY REFUSED TO ACCEPT AND WHICH PETITIONS WERE REFUSED.&rdquo;<\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><font size=\"4\">&hellip; The Facebook post states<\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><font size=\"4\">The opposition group said on its Facebook page that on Sunday, May 21, 1,715 of the 1,729 petitions submitted were unofficially accepted. 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