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struggle4progress

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Fri Mar 18, 2016, 11:44 PM Mar 2016

'Mr. Sagebrush Rebellion' bankrolls push to seize federal land

Phil Taylor, E&E reporter
Greenwire: Friday, March 18, 2016

When Western county commissioners wanted to start a nonprofit dedicated to taking over federal lands, they turned to a well-heeled 92-year-old businessman.

Bert Smith and his wife, Kathy, cut a $35,000 check. The American Lands Council was born in 2012.

"I don't know how much money they've put into it over the years, but a lot," said Demar Dahl, an Elko County, Nev., commissioner and the organization's co-founder and current board member.

Bert Smith, now 95, styles himself "Mr. Sagebrush Rebellion" and calls jailed Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy a "hero." The Ogden, Utah, resident has quietly bankrolled a bevy of groups challenging the federal government's ownership of roughly 640 million acres of Western lands ...


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'Mr. Sagebrush Rebellion' bankrolls push to seize federal land (Original Post) struggle4progress Mar 2016 OP
that is the group Koch brothers KT2000 Mar 2016 #1
The Koch Brothers were in on this from day one. ALC is a retread of a previous Koch program. Ford_Prefect Mar 2016 #2

KT2000

(20,544 posts)
1. that is the group Koch brothers
Sat Mar 19, 2016, 12:06 AM
Mar 2016

contribute to as well. They try to sell their message in state legislatures.

Ford_Prefect

(7,830 posts)
2. The Koch Brothers were in on this from day one. ALC is a retread of a previous Koch program.
Sat Mar 19, 2016, 12:39 AM
Mar 2016

The folksy story is a lie to cover the corporate involvement and organization. Kochs were funding another group with the same goals and participants for the last 35 years. They helped fund and organize the so-called Sage Brush Rebellion groups that helped Ronald Reagan into the White House.

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