Officials in county government and Ridgefield recently told The Columbian the tribe has made payments associated with an agreement put in place after the tribe’s 156-acre reservation was removed from the county property tax rolls.
The lawsuit says the alleged statements stemmed from Barnett earlier telling Clark County authorities as well as a reporter for The Columbian that “the tribe was not honoring financial obligations that the tribe had entered into with (the county) as part of negotiations for the development of the ilani casino.” Barnett at the (March 2) meeting,” the lawsuit says, including that Barnett had engaged in unethical activities, such as “bribing tribal members before an election by ‘handing out bags of cash.'”Īlso, the suit says Walkinshaw said Barnett “is ‘evil’ and a ‘cancer’ and that he is going to ‘kill the whole tribe.'” “Walkinshaw made a range of false statements about Mr.
