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

[Phil Nisbet]

Hansen

Please, stop, posting humor like this is just too harsh.  I could barely get 
off the floor laughing, tears streaming down from the corner of my eye.  
Jerry Brady, protector of the public's right to access public lands. . .  
LOLOLOOOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOOLOOLOLL

Which gag writer did Dick Stallings hire to take over putting out press 
releases?  Whoever that guy is should get a spot on Comedy Central.  Hell of 
a talent.

Phil Nisbet


>From: "Tom Hansen" <thansen at moscow.com>
>To: "Moscow Vision 2020" <vision2020 at moscow.com>
>Subject: [Vision2020] Stallings: Otter Still Doesn't Get It
>Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2006 18:33:54 -0800
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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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>"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.
>
>
>
>"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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