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turbinetree

(24,631 posts)
Fri Oct 19, 2018, 10:17 AM Oct 2018

Interior selects Bundy supporter who favors 'war' against the BLM to serve as senior legal adviser

This a couple days old........but this dangerous.....................for everyone, and not being reported by the MSM.............she has no business being in with Zinke crowd or in government in any capacity............

The far-right militant sympathizer withdrew from consideration to head the BLM is joining the Interior Department.
MARK HAND
OCT 16, 2018, 11:31 AM

The Department of the Interior has selected Karen Budd-Falen, an anti-public lands advocate, for a senior legal position at the department. The move is controversial: Budd-Falen is an ally of right-wing extremist Cliven Bundy, who is best known for leading an armed 2014 standoff with federal officials in Nevada after he refused to pay his grazing fees.

Budd-Falen is a Wyoming-based property rights attorney who worked as a member of the Trump administration’s transition team for the Interior Department. She is scheduled to begin work on November 1 as the deputy solicitor for Parks and Wildlife working on issues related to endangered species, wildlife refuges, and national monuments.

The attorney had reportedly been previously considered to lead the U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM). But Budd-Falen withdrew her name from consideration for the top BLM spot in March, claiming the decision was made after she was asked to sell her interest in her family ranch.

Others contend she withdrew because her anti-public lands and anti-federal land management positions raised questions about her ability to pass Senate confirmation.


https://thinkprogress.org/interior-selects-bundy-supporter-who-favors-war-against-the-blm-to-serve-as-senior-legal-adviser-0c1ef1fd9540/


What is amazing is that this person more than likely leases land from the government in Big Piney of Wyoming to raise her cattle, which is associated with the Grand Tetons, her ilk was part of the Sagebush Rebellion, and the other asshole James Watt.................I know of the ramifications of her shit when I lived in Wyoming...........................

https://www.npr.org/2018/10/15/657542759/critic-of-federal-public-lands-management-to-join-department-of-the-interior


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