[usafa92]

Found this snippet in the AP newswire on ABC News, so apologize for the improv title. I believe Zinke is a former SEAL, but what a moron. Platform is calling for the return of Federal lands to the states which all representatives should be in favor of, but for some reason Zinke thinks this is divisive. He is still apparently speaking as scheduled. I understand Montana has a ton of land under Federal conteol but what is up with this? I must be missing something.

[map]

He’s withdrawing as a delegate but he’s going to give a speech.

This man is mentally ill.

[Impy]

Odd of Zinke to raise a stink about a parochial issue like this. We don’t need anything negative going on right now.

[Enchante]

The left is busy demagoguing this issue to death already. Facebook is aflame with viral memes saying that the Republicans want to abandon the National Parks etc.

I think it might have helped to be a bit more specific about what is contemplated, although someone like Zinke surely understands that the Rs are not (generally) talking about the National Parks, but especially about the vast amounts of land under the Bureau of Land Management, which is generally the less attractive and much less visited tracts of land... and which was ALWAYS intended to be managed for resource extraction. Hell, the National "FOREST" system (not the Nat'l Parks) was also always intended to allow logging and mining, but over time the left tries to re-define all federal land as untouchable for any productive purpose.

Most Americans have no idea that in a large number of western states close to HALF or more of all land is under federal control: