Spike,

"After about five minutes, the couple were told by a SEIRPC employee that the cake would not be accepted and Tapp had declined to meet with them."

You are right. If friends and family cannot lick taxpayer goodies from the bowl, what else should you expect?

If the whole truth is ever revealed, do you think Tapp and the rest of tribe would accept a cake? There could be a file inside.

Betty Crocker