We’re no fans of the Catawba Nation’s efforts over the decades to open a casino in South Carolina, but it’s hard to argue with Chief Brian Harris’ assertion that there’s no way a Republican campaign donor should be allowed to do that as long as his tribe can’t.
Chief Harris spoke out Monday after The Post and Courier and other news organizations reported that the tribe’s controversial former business partner had purchased land near where the tribe had hoped to build its own casino and that he is now working the Legislature to get a law passed that would allow him to build what he says would be a $1 billion facility in the Orangeburg County town of Santee, and pluck travelers off I-95 willing to lose their money.
