[Vision2020] Stallings: Otter Still Doesn't Get It

[Pat Kraut]

Your assuming it will be Californians and that is not a for sure. It will
change our tax base no matter what so that we will have a broader tax base
in this state with lots of land and few people! I am just saying that It is
something that has come up before and will again.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Matt Decker" <mattd2107 at hotmail.com>
To: <pkraut at moscow.com>
Sent: Thursday, January 05, 2006 10:46 PM
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Stallings: Otter Still Doesn't Get It


Just wondering how Californians buying our land is good for us? Please do
explain.

matt


>From: "Pat Kraut" <pkraut at moscow.com>
>To: "vision2020" <vision2020 at moscow.com>
>Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Stallings: Otter Still Doesn't Get It
>Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2006 22:39:23 -0800
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>I have attended seminars and meetings about the federal lands in Idaho and
>our tax base and this is more complicated than your making it. If we had
>more private property and less federal lands it could be a good thing. Oh
>don't get yourself all choked up! I'm not sure it is what I really want
>either but it certainly is something we should look into in this state. It
>isn't the first time it has come up and won't be the last. Be honest about
>it...maybe we should.
>   ----- Original Message -----
>   From: Tom Hansen
>   To: Moscow Vision 2020
>   Sent: Thursday, January 05, 2006 6:33 PM
>   Subject: [Vision2020] Stallings: Otter Still Doesn't Get It
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>   FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
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>   Contact: Chuck Oxley
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>   (208) 226-1815 or (208) 871-4976
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>   chuck at idaho-democrats.org
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>   January 5, 2006
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>   Stallings: Otter Still Doesn't Get It
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>   BOISE, Idaho - Idaho Democratic Party Chairman Richard Stallings said
>Thursday that Republican congressman C.L. "Butch" Otter still doesn't
>understand that his job as a representative from Idaho is to preserve and
>protect public access to federal lands - not just stand silently while
>others auction it off.
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>   "Butch Otter still doesn't get it," said Stallings, a former congressman
>from Idaho's 2nd Congressional District. "It's not enough for Otter simply
>to take his name off the legislation. If he was doing his job, Otter would
>be actively fighting against this bill and any others that would do the
>same thing."
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>   Democratic gubernatorial candidate Jerry Brady last month denounced
>Otter's co-sponsorship of H.R. 3855, a federal bill sponsored by Rep. Tom
>Tancredo, R-Colo., which seeks to sell off 15 percent of the U.S. Forest
>Service, Bureau of Land Management and other Department of Interior lands.
>The bill would use proceeds from the sales to pay for reconstruction of
>Hurricane Katrina.
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>   For the past several weeks, Otter, who is seeking the Republican
>nomination to the governor's office in 2006, has defended his actions -- 
>despite a cascade of calls from ordinary Idahoans who didn't want to see
>their favorite hunting, fishing or camping grounds sold off to the highest
>bidder. Sportsman's groups and former wildlife professionals also
>criticized Otter's decision to lend his name to it as a co-sponsor.
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>   An online newspaper poll by The Idaho Statesman earlier this week
>indicated more than 85 percent of the people opposed the idea. Stallings
>said it was highly suspect that just days after the poll came out, Otter
>decided to change his tune.
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>
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>   "He's just trying to make this issue go away before the election season.
>It's too bad that Idahoans have to threaten his job to get him to listen to
>them," Stallings said. "While he may have reversed course in this case,
>what will happen the next time? This is not who we want as our state's next
>chief executive."
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>   At a separate legislative discussion forum earlier on Thursday, state
>Senate Minority Leader Clint Stennett, D-Ketchum, said he intends to
>sponsor an Joint Memorial to Congress that will put Idaho firmly and
>officially on record as being opposed to wholesale sell-offs of federal
>lands. Stennett said later Thursday that he still intends to move forward
>with the bill.
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>   "Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of
>arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather to
>skid in sideways, chocolate in one hand, a drink in the other, body
>thoroughly used up, totally worn out and screaming 'WOO HOO. What a ride!'"
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