As noted over the weekend, Senator Daschle has been increasing the pressure on Tim Giago to leave the US Senate race. This morning's Washington Post reports that a deal has been cut:
While Giago would not go into detail about the issues he and Daschle discussed, he has said that he wanted Daschle to open dialogue on returning the sacred Black Hills to the tribes of the Sioux Nation, and to help remedy the lack of economic opportunities on the state's reservations, the poorest in the country. Giago had expressed distress that Daschle did not seem open to discussing the Black Hills....
At Saturday's meeting here, where Giago is based, Daschle agreed to convene a meeting in August in the Black Hills with tribal leaders and elders from all nine South Dakota reservations. The purpose is to hear their concerns and help address them.
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"The fact of the matter is that if I hadn't chosen to run as an independent, we wouldn't have gotten these issues on the table," he said. "It really put the pressure on Daschle. . . . So I went to him from a position of power -- which I've never had before, and Indians haven't had before."
Apparently Daschle was very worried about the Giago candidacy, despite Daschle's press secretary's statements to the contrary. What kind of deal was this exactly? More later.
p.s. note that DVT beat WaPo to this story by 4 days.
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