Posted on 11/27/2015 10:08:09 AM PST by jazusamo
Three months after Breitbart News and others outed Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) 's backdoor effort to freeze development on over one million acres of California dessert by having President Obama declare the area subject to the Antiquities Act of 1906, her efforts are going down in flames as Congressional Republicans are moving to ban the Antiquities designation.
Feinstein's seven-year quest to convince "ongress to sequester over 1560 square miles of the Mojave Desert into three new national monuments under her proposed 'Desert Conservation and Recreation Act" has gone nowhere. Feinstein has argued that the area she wants designated as 'Mojave Trails, Sand to Snow and Castle Mountains' is home to mountain lions, the California desert tortoise and bighorn sheep. But the real effort is to ban off-roaders, hunters and miners.
The Senator had faced opposition from an unusual coalition of sustainable energy developers, wilderness advocates, off-road vehicle users, military bases, energy companies and American Indian tribes. By trying to circumvent Congress through artificially tying up the property with a phony search for non-existent artifacts, she has incensed Republicans and upset many Democrats, who worry about future Presidential actions.
U.S. Rep. Paul Cook (R-CA), whose district covers the area Feinstein wants restricted, complained at a Congressional hearing in September that the Antiquities Act "sets in motion a Washington-based management plan that can sharply curtail recreational and economic activities. I'm deeply concerned that outreach efforts to the public have been hasty and inadequate."
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YUp.. I remember running across this in my early formative freeper years. DiChIFi did quite well in her early SF formative political years too. A fascinating saga.. With some of the usual culprits in more than cameo roles too.
Other than here and another place or site or two.. She got a free pass.
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