Ag official's priority: avoiding jail (Undersec. Mark Rey)

[maddezmom]

Source: AP

Ag official's priority: avoiding jail By MATTHEW DALY, Associated Press Writer
3 minutes ago



WASHINGTON - He overhauled federal forest policy to cut more trees — and became a lightning rod for environmentalists who say he is intent on logging every tree in his reach.


After nearly seven years in office, Agriculture Undersecretary Mark Rey still has a long to-do list. Near the top: Persuade a federal judge to keep him out of jail.

Rey, a former timber industry lobbyist who has directed U.S. forest policy since 2001, also wants to set up state rules making it easier to build roads in remote national forests and restore overgrown, unhealthy forests by clearing them of small trees and debris that can stoke wildfires. And he wants to streamline cumbersome regulations that can paralyze actions on public lands.

A Montana judge, accusing Rey of deliberately skirting the law so the Forest Service can keep fighting wildfires with a flame retardant that kills fish, has threatened to put him behind bars.



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[pattmarty]

1. Then do it!!!!! Put him in a "good" jail too with a big black guy as his cellmate.

[last1standing]

2. Yeah, it's good that we have all those big black guys in jail to teach people lessons.

Gee! If he could only be named "Bubba" and rape him, huh? That way we cover every sick, racist stereotype about prison. Way to go!!!! :sarcasm:

[robinlynne]

3. Know what, big black guys aren't the ones you should be afraid of. It's the little

white ones in the whitehouse.

[struggle4progress]

4. Ship him to Guantanamo