Nevadans meddle in Oregon's business

Posted date February 15, 2016 - 11:51pm
Updated February 16, 2016 - 6:21am
By John L. Smith
Las Vegas Review-Journal

... Fiore and fellow Republican Assembly members John Moore and Shelly Shelton summoned their best judgment and decided it was a good idea to travel to Oregon to help resolve the standoff started by wayward wranglers Ammon and Ryan Bundy, the sons of Bunkerville rancher Cliven Bundy. The lawmakers reached their decision in the wake of the shooting death of Robert LaVoy Finicum, an Arizona rancher who also thought it was the right thing to do to travel to the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in the dead of winter to rally in support of Dwight and Steven Hammond, ranchers serving prison sentences for burning federally protected land adjacent to their property.

The Hammonds didn't invite the Bundy brothers, Finicum or any of the other occupiers of the wildlife refuge to come to their neck of the woods, but that is a trifling fact when you're doing the heavy lifting of upholding the U.S. Constitution and giving daily news conferences.

Finicum had intimated that he wouldn't be taken alive, and he wasn't. He died in a hail of government gunfire. Ryan Bundy was wounded in the arm. Brother Ammon is lucky to be breathing jailhouse oxygen. The rest of the Constitution cowboys are headed to unfriendly places where they don't let you wear your hat indoors and few are likely to solicit their opinions ...

Shelton ... in a Jan. 27 Facebook post she made her opinion of the Finicum shooting clear. She compared him to Moses and Jesus ...

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