LINCOLN, Neb. (WOWT) - Nebraska Attorney General Mike Hilgers said Wednesday that Omaha Tribe’s proposed tax compact was too big an “ask” for the state, stopping short of outright denying the matter was connected to the tribe’s plans for medical marijuana sales.

“Nebraska’s not forced to do anything. We’ll respond in due course,” Hilgers said about the tax compact in a news conference on an unrelated matter.

The Omaha Tribe has claimed that Hilgers is retaliating against their medical marijuana program by ending negotiations — which the tribe said were fairly new — on an unrelated tobacco tax compact that would have allowed the tribe and state to share revenue from Nebraska’s tobacco sales tax.

When asked about the negotiations on Wednesday, Hilgers said he would speak more generall

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