If you thought the standoff at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Oregon was just a harebrained scheme cooked up by some ranchers who are too cheap to pay their grazing fees, it turns out they also had a lot of help from elected Republican officials.

Oregon Public Radio is reporting that several GOP lawmakers–Nevada state Rep. Michele Fiore, Oregon state Rep. Dallas Heard, Idaho state Rep. Judy Boyle, Washington state Rep. Matt Shea, and others–were fully aware of the fact that Ammon Bundy and his brother Ryan were going to take control of federal property with a show of force, but they never bothered to share this information with any law enforcement agency. Can you say accessory to a federal felony offense?

For the record, it should be noted that Fiore, Shea, and other GOP lawmakers in the west are part of a group known as the Coalition of Western States (COWS). COWS has one goal: Forcing the federal government to surrender federally protected lands to the states. Because, you know, they can manage them soooo much better and strip mine or otherwise destroy them for whatever goodies they happen to find in the process.

Greenlee County, Arizona, Commissioner Robert Corbell, who is as massive of a piece of shit as has ever walked the face of the earth, has also supported deadbeat rancher Cliven Bundy, who owes the federal government over $1 million in grazing fees because he’s too damn sorry to pay what he owes. Corbell knew what was about to happen at Malheur, as OPB reports: