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The news today that Lisa Brown has been banned from Chinook Winds by the Siletz Tribal Gaming Commission (STGC) comes as no great surprise.

In a letter to Lisa Brown, Executive Director of the STGC Shawna Gray writes:

The Gaming Commission's investigation concluded that you have a disregard for the authority of the Siletz Tribal Gaming Commission and you are an integrity risk based on your actions in your role as a Tribal Council Member. You have abused your duties and resonsibilities as a member of the Tribal Council by interjecting yourself in the day to day activities/operations of Chinook Winds Casino Resort. You have made statements that are damaging to the Chinook Winds Resort operations. You have made Chinook Winds Casino Resort employees feel uncomfortable and threatened for their jobs and have interfered in the day to day operations of the Casino. Additionally, the racist and offensive statements made by you to the former General Manager have had a negative impact on the reputation and profit of Chinook Winds Casino Resort. Your actions since you became a member of the Siletz Tribal Council have establised a pattern of non-compliance and disregard for the Charter of the Siletz Tribal Gaming Enterprise.

The conflict of interest in this matter is stunning. Dee's majority directly hires and fires the Siletz Tribal Gaming Commission. Shawna Gray's job depends on whether she acts to satisfy her direct supervisor, Dee Pigsley and the majority on the Tribal Council, the very people who originally concocted the charges that Shawna cites. They invited the STGC to join the expulsion process. The Same group of people who now seek to expel Lisa Brown have enlisted their subordinates on the Siletz Tribal Gaming Commission to take action against her. In fact, the commission's letter reads like it could have been written by Robert Kentta, himself, Dee Pigsley's point man in the expulsion scheme.

The commission's investigation and conclusions are specious, much of which consists of secret evidence and anonymous witnesses, phantom accusers whom Lisa Brown may not question or even know the identities of, unless by an arbitrary ruling by, you guessed it, Dee Pigsley.

Don't be surprised to see Shawna Gray's admonishment and the news of the banning of Lisa Brown from the casino in the next issue of the Siletz News. The Pigsley-Bremner Political Machine can get news published in a hurry, when it benefits them. I'm sure that Chairman Pigsley will cite the commission's censure of Lisa Brown as independent corroboration to the membership of Brown's high crimes and misdemeanors, but it doesn't take long to connect the dots in this case. The other members of the Commission are Trevor Trachsel and Allison Simmons, who is Vice Chairman Bud Lane's sister-in-law. They report to Shawna Gray. And all of the commission members owe their jobs to the fact that they remain loyal to the Pigsley-Bremner political machine.