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Say goodbye to Fairchild

Jay Inslee’s decision to allow a tribal casino to be built close to Fairchild Air Force Base is a political statement. Inslee would never have approved a casino near the confines of combined base Lewis-McChord, for Lewis-McChord is embedded in the blue-dominated counties of Western Washington.

So many higher office holders base their decisions on who supports “me” and my party. Eastern Washington counties are basically Republican-dominated while the population centers in and around the Puget Sound are not.

I would like to know if The Spokesman-Review could publish just how much money was contributed to Inslee in his last election for governor by the Spokane Tribe.

Our Spokane area supports Fairchild. Whether this base is selected at all for the KC-46 Pegasus aircraft replacement is to be determined. To allow a “land mine” though, like another Indian casino to be built on land which historically is rural farmland, does not serve our community.

Just what is the law that allows any people the right to purchase land within the USA and make it their sovereign nation? So say goodbye to Fairchild, folks, for I predict it will be a closed base.

Jack Abel

Spokane

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