Issues of concern to people who live in the west: property rights, water rights, endangered species, livestock grazing, energy production, wilderness and western agriculture. Plus a few items on western history, western literature and the sport of rodeo... Frank DuBois served as the NM Secretary of Agriculture from 1988 to 2003. DuBois is a former legislative assistant to a U.S. Senator, a Deputy Assistant Secretary of Interior, and is the founder of the DuBois Rodeo Scholarship.
Sunday, January 17, 2016
Oregon brothers launch anti-Bundy fundraising campaign
Critics of Ammon Bundy and his followers occupying the Malheur
National Wildlife Refuge have launched a protest designed to line the
pocketbooks of Bundy's opponents. The campaign, founded by a pair of brothers from Oregon, is known as G.O.H.O.M.E, an acronym that stands for Getting the Occupiers of Historic Oregon Malheur Evicted. Brothers Zach and Jake Klonoski launched the fundraiser Sunday. They
hope to convince Bundy and crew to leave by collecting money for groups
whose mission is antithetical to the occupiers' beliefs. Recipients of the donations
include a gun control campaign, a group that supports the wildlife
refuge the occupiers want to privatize, an organization that has labeled
Bundy and company as extremists, and the Native American tribe whose
members claim the refuge as their ancestral land. The fundraising campaign will continue as long as the occupation does...more
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