The
headline reads "Rep. Taylor's subcommittee kills land sale".
Be still, my heart. Sub-title....
Any future sales must have local support,Taylor says
Breathe.
Western North Carolina Representative Charles Taylor told U.S. Forest Service Chief Dale Bosworth last week that the administration's proposal to dispose of 300,000 acres of national forest lands was "not going to happen."
I have just made plans to go get copies of deeds of the tracts that are for sale. For substantive comment,for my own purposes, but to send on to those who posess finer, more legally tuned minds. I will comment. You should too. It is as important now as ever. Tip this thing over the edge, into the Abyss. This article makes no sense, when one considers his record.
I smell a rat. The Jacks are whining, the blood lust is up.
From the Franklin Press:
According to a release from Taylor's office, the exchange came during Bosworth's testimony on the Forest Service's Fiscal Year 2007 budget request before the House Interior Appropriations Subcommittee, which Rep. Taylor chairs.
But he voted for it before he spoke against it. All of a sudden, he's concerned about the constituents?
"Any sale of forest land affects the communities and counties in which those forests are located," said Taylor. "You cannot put out a plan to sell off
this much land, all across the nation, without first sitting down with each of those local communities and talking about their priorities and their goals. They cannot be cut out of the process."
Do read the whole thing....
So what is going on here? Change of heart? Or perhaps a transplant, since he has a challenger in the primary.
And a Dem running against him who has more money as well as better endorsments, people oriented ones.
And Taylor, seems is reported to be ethically ummm... challenged as well.
Look at his LCV Scorecard Votes
Name of Legislation voted score
Passed Arctic National Wildlife Refuge III 12/19/2005 Y
Passed Public Lands Sell-Off 11/18/2005 Y
Passed Air Pollution & Oil Refineries 10/07/2005 Y
Passed Endangered Species 09/29/2005 Y
Passed Energy Conference Report 07/28/2005 Y
Passed CAFTA 07/28/2005 ?
Failed Water Projects 07/14/2005 N
Failed Natural Gas Drilling 05/19/2005 N
Passed Arctic National Wildlife Refuge II 04/28/2005 Y
Passed Energy Bill 04/21/2005 Y
Failed Natural Gas Facilities 04/21/2005 N
Failed Environmental Justice 04/21/2005 N
Failed MTBE Liability 04/21/2005 N
Failed Arctic National Wildlife Refuge I 04/20/2005 N
Failed Fuel Economy 04/20/2005 N
Failed Oil Refineries 04/20/2005 N
Passed Environmental Funding Cuts 03/17/2005 Y
Failed Border Construction Exemption 02/10/2005 N
This is so out of line for him. Perhaps this is an attempt to keep the old door from spanking him on his way out.
Perhaps it's an attempt to minimize the number of letters against, as we hit the home stretch on comment period. Perhaps there was never any commitment to do this any way, it was just smoke to cover the rapidly increasing number of BLM sales and leases, which is my pet theory.
So keep writin',
by email through wilderness society,
or on your own...
DATES: You should submit your
comments by March 30, 2006 to be
assured of consideration. Comments
received after that date will be
considered only to the extent
practicable.
ADDRESSES: You may submit your
comments by e-mail to
SRS_Land_Sales@fs.fed.us, by facsimile
to (202) 205-1604, or by mail to USDA
Forest Service, SRS Comments, Lands
4S, 1400 Independence Ave., SW.,
Mailstop 1124, Washington, DC 20250-
0003. Electronic submission is preferred.
If you submit your comments by e-mail
or fax, you do not need to send a paper
copy by mail.
(Yeah, well, I think I'll send a printed copy of my e-mail comment anyway. )
keep callin' yer critters,
'cause ole emma, she don' trust this sumbitch any further than she lands when she falls off old Dobbin.