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Ted Cruz sends letter to Bureau of Land Management requesting answers regarding Red River lands
Atascocita Observer ^ | 04/25/2014

Posted on 04/25/2014 11:34:00 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

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To: SeekAndFind

Hear that thunder in the background,,it’s the big guns,,and they are getting closer to BLM.

Thank you, Cruz!


21 posted on 04/25/2014 12:51:07 PM PDT by austinaero
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To: Windflier

Dear BLM,

My bloodlines in this state are older than your pathetic bureaucracy. P*ss off.


22 posted on 04/25/2014 12:51:22 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: Windflier

bttt


23 posted on 04/25/2014 12:51:35 PM PDT by Liberty Valance (Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
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To: SeekAndFind

” management of more than 245 million acres of public land “

What’s that you say,,PUBLIC Land?

I am the public.


24 posted on 04/25/2014 12:52:49 PM PDT by austinaero
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To: austinaero

Just try to occupy a piece of the “public land” and see what happens. ;-)


25 posted on 04/25/2014 12:56:53 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: Yosemitest

There is a way to do that, but we need to wait for them to act first. If they don’t cease and desist, then yes they are all open season. If not, it makes no sense to do what they do.


26 posted on 04/25/2014 12:56:59 PM PDT by Texas resident (The democrat party is now the CPUSA)
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To: SeekAndFind

RED RIVER BOUNDARY COMPACT
http://digital.library.okstate.edu/encyclopedia/entries/R/RE008.html

“... Gov. George W. Bush of Texas signed the legislation into law on May 24, 1999; Gov. Frank Keating of Oklahoma followed suit on June 4.
Thus, the Red River Boundary Compact became the legal document establishing the permanent political boundary between Oklahoma and Texas. The compact declares the vegetation line along the south bank of the Red River extending on a line from the 100th Meridian east to Lake Texoma as the northern border of Texas. Land between the south bank and the meridian line of the river belongs to the Kiowa, Comanche, and Apache tribes and is held in trust by the federal government. The riverbed north of the meridian line belongs to the state of Oklahoma. The lone exception to the south bank being the northern border of Texas is spelled out under Article II, Section b.1, which states that in the Texoma area the boundary extends from “the intersection of the vegetation line on the south bank with the east bank of Shawnee Creek.” The line, depicted by the characters (”-..-”) in the Lake Texoma Fishing and Boating Map, Number A353, continues to the foot of the Denison Dam....”

Doesn’t sound like there’s much land in the BLM’s hands.


27 posted on 04/25/2014 12:58:32 PM PDT by mrsmith (Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat Party!)
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To: mrsmith

That raises a question or two. There are landowners along the Red River holding title for a hundred or more years.

Now the Governors of Oklahoma and Texas may indeed have some right to agree where the boundary between two states are subject to the legislature passing such a law.

That doesn’t give them the right to ignore the private property interests and declare any part of the individuals property holdings to belong to the Indians, or the Feds, does it?

Just because the river changes course, shouldn’t change the ownership of the actual land, it should just mean that the individual may own more or less in Texas or Oklahoma.


29 posted on 04/25/2014 1:15:14 PM PDT by greeneyes (Moderation in defense of your country is NO virtue. Let Freedom Ring.)
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To: TexasFreeper2009
Therefore, I would like to make an additional inquiry:

6. Please confirm that BLM does not take the position that it has rights to ownership or control of any of the 90,000 acres of land along the Red River that are at the center of this controversy or similarly situated land. If it claims any such rights, please identify with specificity the acreage, location and legal basis for claiming those rights.

30 posted on 04/25/2014 1:24:43 PM PDT by Svartalfiar
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To: SeekAndFind

This is a fine example why Ted Cruz was elected over Dewhurst.


31 posted on 04/25/2014 1:26:22 PM PDT by TADSLOS (The Event Horizon has come and gone. Buckle up and hang on.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Love it Ted.


32 posted on 04/25/2014 1:30:17 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose o f a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: Windflier
Nevada was a long ways away....Red River, heck, that's a hop and a skip.

Any rancher man does an invite, may have to take’em up on some campfire, chilli and a sud or two.

33 posted on 04/25/2014 1:42:57 PM PDT by servantboy777
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To: servantboy777
"Can we have some more beans, Mr. Taggart?"

/johnny

34 posted on 04/25/2014 1:45:21 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: Windflier

Love that flag! Is it available anywhere?


35 posted on 04/25/2014 1:52:10 PM PDT by nanetteclaret (Unreconstructed "Elderly Kooky Type" Catholic Texan)
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To: SeekAndFind
Hey Ted, let's simplify it. Just ask,

"On what Constitutional grounds do you continue to own any of this land?"

36 posted on 04/25/2014 1:58:16 PM PDT by PapaNew
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To: PapaNew
Precisely where in the hell is the rest of the Texas delegation, to include the freaking senior senator from Texas????????????????

Easter's over...our Reps need to get back to work, and cease riding the coattails of Senator Cruz!!!!!!

37 posted on 04/25/2014 2:02:45 PM PDT by Night Hides Not (For every Ted Cruz we send to DC, I can endure 2-3 "unviable" candidates that beat incumbents.)
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To: SeekAndFind

An “off the charts brilliant” lawyer doesn’t ask questions to which he doesn’t already know the answers, therefore, Ted has set a trap for the BLM. I can’t wait to see what it is.


38 posted on 04/25/2014 2:04:50 PM PDT by Sirius Lee (All that is required for evil to advance is for government to do "something")
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To: JRandomFreeper

lol


39 posted on 04/25/2014 2:17:53 PM PDT by servantboy777
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To: Windflier



40 posted on 04/25/2014 2:23:59 PM PDT by MEG33 (God Bless And Protect Our Troops)
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