I realize this...and ammended my own posting to that effect and accordingly on my site. I wish I could do so here.
What has happened is that a solar farm was in fact built about 40 miles from the Bundy ranch, and amazingly, the tortoise was not an issue for that plant. Why?
We all know why. Reid was behind it and his man runs the BLM.
The BLM controls over 40 million acres of Nevada land. Developers have to go to the BLM to develop any of that land in the State of Nevada. Harry Reid, like any good mobster, has “his” man (wholly unqualified) in place at the head of the BLM so anyone wanting to develop in Nevada on those lands has to, in effect, deal with Harry Reid.
That’s the corruption that is going on and the clear lesson from these mobsters and corrupt people is that in Harry Reid’s Nevada, if you are a large corporation with money to spread around, or if you are a foreign entity with the same, the following is true.
Rich donors trump the Desert Tortoise, and the Desert Tortoise trumps independent ranchers and independent Americans.
Good grief Jeff, you know better than to be explaining that to me.
I was guilty of the same mistake on Sunday, but by that evening had found out otherwise, but I was already seeing leftists bashing conservatives about it to drain their credibility. By the time you posted, it was two days later.
Aside from the BLM's reprehensible behavior, the key fact here nobody is talking about is that cattle can improve habitat for the tortoise. It robs the agency of any moral high ground.
The left is doing whatever it takes to plant urban population centers in the West and depopulate rural areas with which to control the Senate. That alone is enough rationale for Reid, aside from his corrupt ambitions on the part of his family.