Potawatomi’s anti-competition campaign conveniently omits its casino expansion’s own East Coast connection

We’ve talked about it before, and a brief in this week’s Small Business Times reinforces the fact that Potawatomi’s silly and unbelievable “No East Coast” message doesn’t extend to the Tribe’s own business relationships.

Potawatomi has one of the country’s most respected construction firms building its $250 million off-reservation casino expansion in Downtown Milwaukee. It’s a very good company, with a solid Milwaukee presence, but it’s certainly not a Wisconsin company. It’s actually headquartered in Rhode Island – on the East Coast! Plus, it has other offices in Massachusetts, New Jersey, Delaware and New York. (New York? Can you get more East Coast than New York?) It also has offices in Arizona, California, Texas, Illinois, Ohio, Georgia, Virginia, Maryland, North Carolina and Pennsylvania.

Overseeing a $250 million casino expansion is no small contract, and one could reasonably presume that the economic rewards are extending far beyond the constructor’s Milwaukee office. In fact, it’s highly likely that a good chunk of Potawatomi’s Wisconsin construction money is going…to the East Coast.

Bet you won’t see that in Potawatomi’s big-bucks anti-competition ad campaign.

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