Senecas blast Spitzer over cigarette tax collection

"Treaty Now! Sovereignty Now!" Senecas chanted as they marched around Niagara Square near Buffalo's City Hall. Seneca officials estimated the rally's attendance at more than 500 people, most of them Senecas and members of other tribes. According to Seneca President Maurice A. Joh...

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Published inMcClatchy - Tribune Business News p. 1
Main Author Dan Herbeck And Lou Michel
Format Newsletter
LanguageEnglish
Published Washington Tribune Content Agency LLC 14.03.2007
Subjects
Cigarettes
Convenience stores
Governors
John, Maurice A
Native North Americans
Spitzer, Eliot
Tax collections
Taxes
Tobacco
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Summary:"Treaty Now! Sovereignty Now!" Senecas chanted as they marched around Niagara Square near Buffalo's City Hall. Seneca officials estimated the rally's attendance at more than 500 people, most of them Senecas and members of other tribes. According to Seneca President Maurice A. John, many tribe members are upset because they feel [Eliot L. Spitzer] broke a promise that he would stop pressing for state tax collections if the Senecas agreed to "self-regulate." At the Senecas' Cattaraugus Reservation in southern Erie County, several Senecas and non-Indians expressed disgust over the state's renewed intentions to collect taxes, calling politicians "greedy."