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The decades-long quest by Maine tribes to open casinos or other gambling venues in Maine suffered another setback Thursday when lawmakers upheld Gov. Janet Mills’ veto of a tribal gaming bill.
After nearly an hour of debate, supporters of the bill to allow Maine tribes to offer gaming on tribal lands failed to muster the two-thirds majority needed to override Mills’ veto. The 80-53 vote comes after lawmakers had already postponed work on a larger and more complex suite of bills to overhaul Maine’s 31-year-old legal settlement with the tribes.
The bill, L.D. 554, would have granted the four federally recognized tribes in Maine – Passamaquoddy, Penobscot, Aroostook Band of Micmacs and Houlton Band of Maliseet Indians – the same level of sovereignty over gambling afforded to more than 500 other tribes across the country under federal law.