Where the Rich and Famous Shoot Each Other in TX

[peaches2003]

Here's the story on the Armstrong Ranch in TX where the rich and famous relax, hunt, enjoy their own company, and then go out and shoot everything that moves. You can be sure this is one of those quail hunting 'ranches' where the birds are raised and let loose for men like Cheney to shoot and think they are 'real men'. Bush the Idiot has been there, too, yet he loves to make his fans think he is one of the common folk.

www.caller2.com/1999/july/13/today/local_ne/3122.html

Now I want to know why the taxpayers are paying for not only Cheney to go down there but his own personal medical 'team', when a good part of America can't afford health insurance or to go to a Doctor's office. Yet these are the people who vote for these arrogant rich killers.

[babylonsister]

1. And let's not forget some taxpayers can't afford to buy or eat birds. nt

[fiveleafclover]

2. Sounds a lot like the place

Hank took Bobby to in that one episode of King of the Hill.

[goforit]

3. What a sport!

(yikes)

[FormerRepublican]

4. Who did Bush shoot when he was there?

[WillyT]

5. Hey... At Least They're Shooting Each Other... Think PEASANT Hunting !!!

We're just a consonant away.

:shrug:

[Fridays Child]

6. Armstrong Ranch is a huge working cattle ranch.

They raise Santa Gertrudis cattle. I think the Armstrong family has owned the land for more than 150 years, having purchased it from the original holders of a Spanish land grant. We are talking very old money.

[leftchick]

7. A Bush Pioneer As Well!

This information is provided by Texans for Public Justice.

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Name Mr. & Mrs. Tobin Armstrong
Appointed To
Industry Agriculture
Employer Armstrong Ranch
Occupation Owner
Address Armstrong, TX 78338
Status for 2000 Pledged to raise $100,000
Status for 2004 not listed
Profile
Pioneer Tobin Armstrong’s ancestor, Texas Ranger John B. Armstrong, bought the beginnings of the Armstrong Ranch in 1882 with the $4,000 bounty he received for capturing outlaw John Wesley Hardin. In 1944 Tobin’s older brother wed an heir of legendary King Ranch (see Fausto Yturria), linking two of the biggest ranches in Texas. The Armstrong Ranch has since gone global, with tracts in Australia and South America. In recent years, Tobin and his wife, Anne, have hosted many GOP dignitaries--including the first and second President Bush--on their 50,000-acre Armstrong Ranch in South Texas. “We go out when the dew is still on the grass, and then hunt until we shoot our limit,” Tobin said in 2000 of his ranch outings with Dick Cheney. “Then we pick a fine spot and have a wild game picnic lunch.” True conservatives might choke on their javelina steaks if they knew that Tobin Armstrong dunned the government for $11,336 in farm subsidies between 1995 and 2002, according to the Environmental Working Group. Anne Armstrong served as: a close advisor to President Nixon; President Ford’s British Ambassador; and approved covert actions on the President’s Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board under Reagan. A veteran of blue-chip corporate boards, Anne Armstrong was a Halliburton director when that corporation hired Cheney. She is Kay Bailey Hutchison’s best friend, having helped launch the senator’s career as Republican National Committee co-chair in 1971. George W. Bush appointed Anne Armstrong as a Texas A&M regent in 1997. She and her husband were part of Laura Bush’s delegation to the funeral of Queen Mother Elizabeth in 2002. As a Kenedy County Commissioner in 2001, Tobin Armstrong expressed serious reservations about a short-lived Bush administration plan to relocate a Navy bomb-testing site from Puerto Rico to the fragile sand dunes of a local beach. Daughter Katharine Armstrong--formerly Katherine Idsal--and ex-son-in-law Warren Idsal also are Pioneers. President Bush invited Tobin, Anne and Katharine Armstrong to a White House sleepover.

http://www.whitehouseforsale.org/ContributorsAndPaybacks/pioneer_profile.cfm?pioneer_ID=509