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Grand Ronde Continuing To Spend Big Against Dead Casino

Nearly two weeks after Canadian investors abandoned their $6 million campaign to turn Wood Village into Monte Carlo with a water slide, the Grand Ronde tribe continues to pump money into advertising aimed at defeating Measures 82 and 83.

Those measures ask voters to end Oregon's constitutional ban on private casinos and to allow the establishment of a casino in Wood Village.

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another $623,000
$2.5 million
Oregon really doesn’t want them

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