The Latest: State lawmaker meets with armed Oregon group
Source: Associated Press
The Latest: State lawmaker meets with armed Oregon group
Updated 4:47 pm, Sunday, January 10, 2016
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2:35 p.m.
An Oregon state legislator has met with the armed group occupying a national wildlife area to protest federal land policies.
The Oregonian (http://bit.ly/1kYvDYV ) reports that Rep. Dallas Heard, a Republican from Roseburg, talked with the group Saturday at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in eastern Oregon's high desert country. Heard's legislative district is in western Oregon, outside the area where the standoff is occurring.
Rep. Cliff Bentz, the Republican state representative whose district includes the wildlife refuge, says he told Heard not to come because it would be "inappropriate." Harney County Judge Steven Grasty, another local official, says he too advised Bentz against the visit. Grasty says Bentz and five other out-of-state elected officials from Washington, Idaho and Nevada accompanied Heard.
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The leader of the occupation, Ammon Bundy, has repeatedly rejected calls to leave buildings at the refuge despite pleas from the county sheriff, from many local residents and from Oregon's governor, among others. He has said the group will leave when there is a plan to transfer control of federal land to locals.
Read more: http://www.chron.com/news/science/article/The-Latest-Call-for-supplies-as-standoff-enters-6749376.php
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Militia nuts won't know if they got arrested or just went AWOL and went home. 
