[SoConPubbie]

	"If we must have an enemy at the head of Government, let it be one whom we can oppose, and for whom we are not responsible, who will not involve our party in the disgrace of his foolish and bad measures." - Alexander Hamilton "We don't intend to turn the Republican Party over to the traitors in the battle just ended. We will have no more of those candidates who are pledged to the same goals as our opposition and who seek our support. Turning the Party over to the so-called moderates wouldn’t make any sense at all." -- President Ronald Reagan "A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice." - Thomas Paine 1792 "It does not take a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men." - Samuel Adams "If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or your arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen." - Samuel Adams

[SoConPubbie]

Ted Cruz Ping!

If you want on/off this ping list, please let me know.

Please beware, this is a high-volume ping list!

[MeshugeMikey]

Okay ted...if you keep this up Ill shoot..... I swear it

[Lockbox]

1. I am not a lawyer.

2. The only Supreme Court case from the 1920's covering this topic was between Oklahoma and Texas over the Red River. The Court decided to go with the vegetation line and also listed the surveys from the 1800's. The way I read the finding the land which was in dispute either belonged to Oklahoma or Texas. No Federal Government was mention. Therefore this land on the Red River either belongs to Texas or Oklahoma, but not the Federal Government.

[Blue Highway]

Has there been any consideration or plans to defund or file charges against the BLM? :::crickets:::

[deport]

AG Abbott’s letter to the BLM which Cruz referenced and added his question;

https://www.texasattorneygeneral.gov/oagnews/release.php?id=4718

Specific Questions that were asked:

Accordingly, I hereby request that you or your staff respond in writing to this
letter by providing the following information as soon as possible:

1. Please delineate with specificity each of the steps for the RMP/EIS process for
property along the Red River.

2. Please describe the procedural due process the BLM will afford to Texans whose
property may be claimed by the federal government.

3. Please confirm whether the BLM agrees that, from 1923 until the ratification
of the Red River Boundary Compact, the boundary between Texas and Oklahoma was
the gradient line of the south bank of the Red River. To the extent the BLM does
not agree, please provide legal analysis supporting the BLM’s position.

4. Please confirm whether the BLM still considers Congress’ ratification of the Red
River Boundary Compact as determinative of its interest in land along the Red River?
To the extent the BLM does not agree, please provide legal analysis supporting the
BLM’s new position.

5. Please delineate with specificity the amount of Texas territory that would be
impacted by the BLM’s decision to claim this private land as the property of the
federal government.

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[BereanBrain]

I Heard the Wichita County treasurer on the radio friday. (A county that borders the Red River).

He said they (the BLM) had requested (and did) meet with various counties along the Red River, and they were surveying the land, and that they would want to take the lands between the tree line (supposedly the tree line indicates the highest the water can rise in a flood) and the river.

As you might imagine, along the course of the Red River, this is a lot of land.

More importantly, they will own the land along the river (and can control access) and I am SURE they will claim control of the water as well.

But now they claim they had no such designs.....yeah right.