Discussion: Zinke Extends Obama-Imposed Temporary Mining Ban To 20 Years

Must. Vote.

We also have to keep in mind the record Dems have piled up since trumppā€™s been the occupant of flipping long held red seats and by big numbers in the most unlikely districts. This upcoming election could be an extension of whatever that mood was that caused people to vote against the regime.

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Places to fish, and places not to fish. Dumps and places not to dump. Oil fields and places not to drill.

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Me thinks the real reason is because the House will flip Dem and after the 2.5 million requests for documents hits DoI Zinke will be slinking back to . . .K Street to lobby.

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I thought I smelled a ratā€¦

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I heard he and Gianforte were going to have a knock-down drag-out about the treatment of journalists.

ā€œI wasnā€™t there,ā€ theyā€™ll say, as the video rolls.

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Pre-election chumming, IMHO. messaging to High Country Independants, ā€œSeeā€¦We donā€™t favor environmental pillage and rapine ALL the timeā€.
Donā€™t buy it, itā€™s window dressing. Zinke probably has properties downstream.

These b*stards play by only one rule: Whatā€™s in it for me?

This ā€œdecisionā€ follows the same pattern that Don the Con and his tuchus lecher used when it came to oil drilling off the coast:

My property on the Florida Coast exempted.

Everyone elses coastline drill baby drill.

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Most of the land is within the Custer Gallatin National Forest,

Otter National Forest was renamed after that legendary outdoorsman, rival to only Theodore Roosevelt and John Muir in terms of his efforts to protect our wildlife and its environment.

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