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Campaign Costs Idaho Tribes $4 Million6 December 2002BOISE, Idaho – As reported by the Associated Press: "Idaho's Indian tribes spent another $480,000 in the final two weeks before the Nov. 5 election and afterward to ensure voter passage of the initiative clearly legalizing the electronic gambling machines in their reservation casinos. "Campaign finance disclosure reports filed with the secretary of state on Thursday showed the final infusion of cash, nearly all of it again from the tribes themselves, pushed to more than $4 million the money they committed to convincing voters the state has been wrong in trying to prohibit the machines. "…The initiative passed with nearly 58 percent of the vote after the tribes, using two California firms that successfully engineered passage of Indian gambling propositions in California, spent millions of dollars on an effective broadcast and newspaper advertising campaign…" |