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GOP Candidate Wants to Limit Casinos to Southeastern Corner

WASHINGTON -- Any new Indian-run casinos built in Connecticut should be located in the southeastern corner of the state near the highly successful Foxwoods Resort Casino and the Mohegan Sun, the Darien Republican running for U.S. Senate said.

Jack Orchulli, a retired businessman running against Sen. Christopher J. Dodd, D-Conn., said tribal casinos should be contained and not scattered across the state.

If any more tribes receive permission to build a casino, "they should be forced to place it where the others are," said Orchulli, during a wide-ranging interview with the Associated Press. "It should be set up like Atlantic City and Las Vegas -- we can't have them all over the state."

At least two tribes -- the Kent-based Schaghticokes and the Eastern Pequots, who are near Ledyard -- were granted federal recognition by the Bureau of Indian Affairs. The two tribes have financial backers and have said they'd like to build casinos, but nothing is likely to happen soon.

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