Draft GOP Platform Echoes Demands From Malheur Occupation

[struggle4progress]

by Amanda Peacher OPB
July 13, 2016 6:23 p.m.
Updated: July 14, 2016 6:19 a.m.

The GOP platform language calls on Congress to “immediately pass universal legislation providing the timely and orderly mechanism requiring the federal government to convey certain federally controlled public lands to the states.”

Throughout the refuge occupation .. militant leaders said that the federal government had no right to control public lands ...

A final draft of the Republican Party platform will be voted on during next week’s GOP convention.

http://www.opb.org/news/series/burns-oregon-standoff-bundy-militia-news-updates/oregon-malheur-echos-draft-gop-platform-federal-lands-transfer-states/

[Zambero]

1. Ah yes, the Bundy Bill

Give them complete control and that's what we'll get.

[SCantiGOP]

2. This is sickening

Typical, but still sickening.