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Draft GOP Platform Echoes Demands of #BundyTeaParty "Patriots"
Draft GOP Platform Echoes Demands From Malheur Occupation
by Amanda Peacher OPB
This year’s national Republican Party platform could support turning federal lands over to states. The language echoes some of the demands of the armed occupiers of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in southeast Oregon earlier this year.
The GOP platform language calls on Congress to “immediately pass universal legislation providing the timely and orderly mechanism requiring the federal government to convey certain federally controlled public lands to the states.”
Throughout the refuge occupation, Ammon Bundy and other militant leaders said that the federal government had no right to control public lands.
..... A final draft of the Republican Party platform will be voted on during next week’s GOP convention.
by Amanda Peacher OPB
This year’s national Republican Party platform could support turning federal lands over to states. The language echoes some of the demands of the armed occupiers of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in southeast Oregon earlier this year.
The GOP platform language calls on Congress to “immediately pass universal legislation providing the timely and orderly mechanism requiring the federal government to convey certain federally controlled public lands to the states.”
Throughout the refuge occupation, Ammon Bundy and other militant leaders said that the federal government had no right to control public lands.
..... A final draft of the Republican Party platform will be voted on during next week’s GOP convention.
