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flamingdem

(39,313 posts)
Wed Jan 27, 2016, 09:43 PM Jan 2016

LIVE TICKER: The ever-rising costs of the Bundy land seizure (3.5 mill)

It’s been three weeks since a band of armed militants seized the Malheur National Wildlife refuge from the American people.

Since then, the costs of Ammon Bundy’s actions have risen steadily—an estimated $133,000 every day—and that’s not including damage yet to be calculated from Bundy and his followers driving bulldozers to make new roads, handling Native American artifacts, destroying fences, using government computers, accessing private employee data, removing cameras, and vandalizing refuge vehicles.

In other words, the number below is a low-end estimate.

CLICK LINK FOR RUNNING TOTAL

http://westernpriorities.org/2016/01/22/bundy-cost-ticker/

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LIVE TICKER: The ever-rising costs of the Bundy land seizure (3.5 mill) (Original Post) flamingdem Jan 2016 OP
Good, they can put liens against all Bundy property Warpy Jan 2016 #1

Warpy

(111,254 posts)
1. Good, they can put liens against all Bundy property
Wed Jan 27, 2016, 09:47 PM
Jan 2016

That mansion Ammon bought in Idaho sold for just under half a million since it's in godforsaken noplace but it would make a nice down payment on what that obnoxious little pimple has cost the taxpayers.

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