Gube Appoints Shovel Rebel For Ag Director

Ever seeking to unite the State into "One Nevada," the Governor has appointed Sagebrush Rebel Tony Leper Lesperance as Director of the Nevada Agriculture Department, in a show of unity with terrorists who like to blow up Forest Rangers. (INP)

The soft-spoken ex-Elko County Commissioner once urged crowds on to peaceful and law-abiding action (or something like that) during the Jarbidge thingy with the following words:

Long angered by federal restrictions on everything from water access to grazing rights, county officials and anti-federalists across the West seized upon the obscure road as a symbol of their discontent. "We will rebuild the road, come hell or high water," declared Tony Lesperance, an Elko County commissioner. The demonstrators, met by dozens of law enforcement officers and media cameras, paraded down Main Street, brandishing their shovels and singing "The Star Spangled Banner." An all-terrain vehicle pulled a trailer decorated with a tombstone reading "U.S. Forest Service." A teenager's sign declared "Tree Huggers: the other red meat." When they reached South Canyon Road -- a dusty, dead-end track leading to a campground -- they wrapped ropes around a four-ton boulder blocking the way and heaved it aside. (MotherJones)

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[NVMojo]

Wow. I was just driving past Paradise Valley on Monday and wondered how old Tony was doing these days.