Ted’s out with a new ad that’s ostensibly against Donald Trump but it sounds more like a wet kiss to the Bundy clan and it’s followers.
85% of Nevada is owned and regulated by the federal government and Donald Trump wants to keep big government in charge. That’s ridiculous. You the people of Nevada should be in charge of your own land. If you trust me with your vote I will fight day and night to return full control Nevada’s lands to it’s rightful owners. It’s citizens. Count on it.
Since when does federal land in Nevada only belong to Nevadans? I thought it belongs to all U.S. citizens. Things like Death Valley and Lake Mead. And when he talks about rightful owners I’m betting that Native Americans aren’t in there anywhere.
What can’t be overlooked is how the ad went up so soon after the end of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge standoff and subsequent arrest of the Bundy clan. This isn’t accidental. Cruz is sending out a dog whistle that’s clearer than a coyote’s howl on a quiet prairie night.
He’d previously stated during the 2014 standoff that “we have seen our liberty under assault” from a government “hell-bent on expanding its authority over every aspect of our lives” and that the standoff “is the unfortunate and tragic culmination of the path that President Obama has set the federal government on.” Now he’s agreeing with them that the land doesn’t belong to the government in the first place.
Not sure that going for the right wing militia vote is a winning strategy especially seeing how quickly the local residents turned against Malheur group.
And I’m not even going to get into the question of where some Canadian gets off tell us what to do with our land.