Congressman Raul Labrador was Idaho's highest ranking supporter of Sen. Ted Cruz, who cleaned up in the state's GOP presidential primary Tuesday - on a night when Donald Trump won everywhere else. But Cruz tied Labrador to a presidential campaign that would liquidate Idaho's federal lands. Speaking in Boise last weekend, Cruz said: "Too much land in this country, particularly in the West, is owned by the federal government. It's not right. It doesn't make sense. So we need to transfer that land back to the states - or even better, back to the people."Source
Apparently, Cruz thinks divestiture will save the federal government money because he expects the proceeds to be plowed back into maintaining the national parks. But the feds will benefit at Idaho's expense. At Congressman Mike Simpson's request, the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service looked into it and concluded the state would lose at least $392 million a year managing those federal lands - and that's not counting another $101 million fighting fires. More here.
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.
Tuesday, March 15, 2016
Does Ted speak for Raul RE: fed lands?
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