Little Miss Sunshine, in Your Face...

Sault Ste. Marie, Mi...Whose working for who. It isn't like our tribal officials invested their own money in the casinos and deserve the profits from them.

We hired them to invest our money in them and we paid then very well while they were doing it. And, we've been paying them very well ever since to oversee them for us.

So, since its our money they're spending..and not their own..is it too much to ask them to report to us on it. Where they're spending it and what they're spending it on...take the following for example:

Money spent on lobbying for the Romulus Project...

$ 100,000.00 Mike McCoy ( Abramson's brother, DJ's uncle, Joe
McCoy's cousin )
$ 250,000.00 Capital Counsel ( Friend of McCoy )
$ 200,000.00 Ogitchtakwe Lobbying Firm ( Friend of director Cathy
McCoy Abramson )
$ 100.000.00 Cusmano Kandler and Reed ( Another McCoy friend )
$ 600,000.00 Romulus Budget
$ 100,000.00 Inaugural Donations ( For tickets for McCoy and
Massaway )
$1,350,000.00 Total...that is known of.

Now that's a tidy sum of money...$1,350,000.00.. and they took it out of your hide ( employee picnics, children's Christmas parties, senior citizen's medicines and land claim's checks ) without saying a word to you about where it was going.

Did you read about it in the tribal paper..in any of the director's unit reports..or how about the chairman's report..has he or any other tribal official reported anything to you about the money they're spending on lobbying for the Romulus Project.

Of course not...

Where was it discussed during a board meeting..in Munising, Hessel, Mackinaw Island. Was it even discussed in a board meeting, or was it done behind closed doors...

Whose to know, or care...

They feel that you're working for them..that it's their show, therefore it's their money and they'll decide where to spend it, without your input..that that's what you hired them for...that they're doing what you elected them to do...

...so, mind you own business, be quiet about it and let them take care of it. If you don't like it, that's too bad. The next time around, elect them out of office. Until then, don't bother them.

Thank you, Charles Forgrave