CRIT Responds to Article in Gaming Legal News March 25, 2011 Recently, a newsletter published by Dickinson Wright, the law firm representing Robert Johnson and Water Wheel Camp Recreation Area, Inc., published an article which mischaracterizes correspondence from the former Governor of the State of California’s Legal Affairs Secretary to the Colorado River Indian Tribes and ignores the Tribe’s response to that correspondence. We invite the public to review both the September 12, 2008 letter from the former Legal Affairs Secretary to the Colorado River Indian Tribes as well as the Tribe’s March 2, 2009 response. Despite Dickinson Wright’s characterizations to the contrary, the Letter from the former Legal Affairs Secretary does not express the position of the State of California, rather it asks the Tribe for its position with regard to the impact of federal legislation from 1902, 1904 and 1911. It is important to note that neither the former Legal Affairs Secretary nor the former Governor of California ever indicated any disagreement with the Tribe’s March 2. 2009 response. IT IS MORE IMPORTANT TO NOTE - THERE IS NO COMPACT WITH THE STATE AND NO CRIT CASINO ON CALIFORNIA LANDS.