Mike Lee's Ammendment - Sale Of Some National Park Lands

[Brad]

This asshole just doesn't quit...

Public Land Advocates Warn Senate Amendment Could Greenlight Sale of National Parks - Flathead Beacon

Public land advocates this week warned that a proposed Senate amendment to an appropriations bill could clear a path toward downsizing America’s national parks system. U.S. Sen. Mike Lee, who chairs the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee — and who endured a firestorm of criticism...

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Groups express alarm about Mike Lee lands amendment

The Senate may vote on an amendment to spending legislation that critics say could lead to public lands sales.

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[Big Fin]

No, he doesn't quit. Too much campaign money involved for him to quit. The list of tricks and stunts we should expect from him and his cronies between now and the mid-term election is very long.

 

[Jnasa]

I’m fed up already. I guess the guy doesn’t have anything g better to do but to try screwing the American people.

 

[SAJ-99]

I agree with the trial balloon analogy. He will just keep floating things to see what can sneak through because he has the green light to do so. I eventually expect there will be some fake emergency declaration and some land will be sold or transferred under that.

 

[Laszlo Cravensworth]

I agree with the trial balloon analogy. He will just keep floating things to see what can sneak through because he has the green light to do so. I eventually expect there will be some fake emergency declaration and some land will be sold or transferred under that.

It's been his main campaign platform all along. This is why he went into politics. He's going to keep doing it for as long as Utah elects him.

 

[SAJ-99]

It's been his main campaign platform all along. This is why he went into politics. He's going to keep doing it for as long as Utah elects him.

Sure, but he isn’t acting alone. The game plan all year has been cut staff and starve it of funds so it is easier to convince Americans the sale is warranted.

 

[Gellar]

This seems like a poor play for Lee and his cronies. Americans love of national parks is deep. Hopefully we can turn this against him and run him out of D.C. with his tail tucked between his legs for good.

 

[KingOfTagSoup]

If anyone from Utah feels like primaring him we'd much appreciate it

 

[MTGomer]

Lee isn’t going to lose an election. He’s doing exactly what he was sent there to do and most of his constituency is in the same cult.
Lee is in until he decides not to run.

 

[daltrix99]

A couple quick comments and questions:

- from a cursory read it looks like this amendment only applies to DOI / NPS lands, so not FS / BLM land (for now)?

- I heard Ryan Callahan say he believes Lee is motivated by religious and philosophical ideology, possibly more so than by money and lobbyists. Does anyone have credible insight to Lee’s true motivation for this nonstop BS? I ask because typically this kind of stuff is tied to the typical (awful) money and power games of politics, and for better or worse, that ‘makes sense’, and there is a playbook to fight it. But if homeboy Lee is on a personal crusade, one would be concerned about anything stopping his attempts.

- finally, other than more emails, in my case to Daines, Sheehy, and Zinke, what can we do in this case?

F this un-American crony

 

[KingOfTagSoup]

I suspect he is getting a ton of his motivation from the extremely powerful and wealthy Mormon lobby in Utah. They already control a ton of land in that state and are looking for more. If the feds sell it, they have the money to buy and develop it.