According to AP, even Western Governors don't like the Gibbons-authored Land Give Away legislation tucked away in the Deficit Reduction Bill:
Six Western governors and a growing number of senators say they fear a plan in a budget bill allowing the sale of millions of acres of public lands could do permanent harm to their states.
"It's got implications for hunters, sportsmen, people who use lands for grazing and basically anybody who uses public lands," said Angela de Rocha, a spokeswoman for Wayne Allard of Colorado, one of a handful of Western GOP senators who say they are concerned about the proposal. ...
In a letter Friday to the Senate Budget Committee, the Democratic governors of Wyoming, Montana, Arizona, New Mexico, Oregon and Washington said the bill is based on "absurd economics" and threatens people's access to parks and other public lands.
Too bad old man Guinny didn't sign on. It'd be a good chance to give his arch-enemy Gibbons a boot in the pants.
Oh, wait. Not even a lame duck Gube from Nevada would dare upset his Big Mining masters.
Jon Ralston earlier today said the fact that Gibbons is getting beaten up in the press about his bad legislation probably won't hurt him in the Gube-election "unless it is used to paint, as part of an aggregation of issues, a negative portrait of the gubernatorial frontrunner as a button for corporate interests." Are you listening Titus and GibSON? Hint. Hint.
But now that a whole bunch of Western Governors with states filled to the brim with mining interests are saying that the legislation stinks, maybe it's time for the Nevada Gube-wannabes to jump on the bandwagon. Before it moves on and leaves them in the western dust.
Unsurprisingly, Gibbons' propaganda newsletter this week tried rather listlessly to defend the legislation that is turning out to be a national laughing-stock.
You're a grown up. You can look up the tax-payer funded congressional propaganda site on your own and see for yourself.
Wyoming Senators don't like the legislation either. See Sen. Craig Thomas' (R-Wyoming) remarks:
There’s a great deal of concern and confusion about the mining provision and what the language may or may not do to public lands. I share the concern of the Wyoming sportsmen and miners who see this provision adversely affecting the multiple-use of our public lands. I won’t stand by and let a band-aid fix to the Mining Act become a chronic injury to land use in our state.
Jeez, Wyoming is Cheney country, kids. Sen. Mike Enzi (R-Wyoming) doesn't like the bill either, and he wants to blow away Grizzlies, for Pete's sake. These aren't wild-eyed liberals by any stretch of the imagination. Boy, Gibbons' bill has too reek to get these guys against it.
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