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To: miraje who wrote (779557)	4/11/2014 9:26:55 PM
From: joseffy	1 Recommendation Recommended By FJB Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1585688

Tom Collins: The village idiot who should be recalled ............................................................................................. Clark County Commissioner Tom Collins (John Locher/Las Vegas Review-Journal) April 11, 2014 by SHERMAN FREDERICK LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL reviewjournal.com Whether I’m the right person to say it or not, I feel like someone should: To all residents of Utah, as well as Mormons everywhere, I’m sorry for the comments made by Clark County Commissioner Tom Collins. He’s the village idiot of Las Vegas and, believe me, that’s saying a lot. As the world knows, Collins told Paiute County, Utah, Commissioner Darin Bushman that people who are riled up by the Bureau of Land Management’s treatment of Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy are wrong. Well, actually, had he just said that he’d would have been OK. But he didn’t. He called them “inbred bastards.” I’ll not ask people to forgive Collins. He’s an untethered elected official who should be recalled for his slur. Nevadans see Utahans as our Western kindred spirit. I promise you that. I know this by publishing newspapers in Las Vegas, Pahrump, Tonopah, Ely, Eureka, Pioche, Caliente and Hawthorne. Collins is the village idiot who speaks for no one. PS: Why Democrats are not hammering Tom Collins like a rusty nail (Hello, Harry Reid. Anybody home?) is beyond me. You can have opinions on both sides of the Bundy deal. But Collins is an embarrassment who ought to be drummed out of office.

To: miraje who wrote (779557)	4/11/2014 9:30:54 PM
From: joseffy	Respond to of 1585688

As reported Friday by the Review-Journal, the government can’t even be open about potential criminal prosecution. A criminal case against another of Mr. Bundy’s sons, Ammon, disappeared from the federal court system’s electronic docket when a reporter asked the U.S. attorney’s office about it Thursday. The office’s non-spokeswoman, Natalie Collins, said, “We cannot comment on it.” As far as the bureaucracy is concerned, we answer to them, not the other way around. That’s exactly why unaccountable agents have the authority to ignore the Constitution without consequence. No doubt plenty of city dwellers are laughing at the rubes in ranching country over their disgust with the federal government. The dispute will be characterized as a rallying cry for the tea party. But this desert drama is the just the latest front in the *decades-long government assault on all* of our rights.** If we don’t defend them, eventually we’ll lose them. Then the joke will be on us.

To: miraje who wrote (779557)	4/11/2014 9:51:19 PM
From: joseffy	Respond to of 1585688

Feds Refuse to Say If They've Euthanized Cattle... .................................................................................................... Stetsy Bundy Cox, Cliven Bundy’s daughter, told the Washington Free Beacon that she believes calves are being left behind. “I watched them gather a herd off the river with helicopters, and they had rounded them for miles and by the time I saw them they were pushing them up the wash,” she said. “Most of them were mamas with babies because it’s calving season, and they’re just little. And I watched the calves, they couldn’t keep up very good and they kept slowing down and the helicopter would swoop down and you could hear them honking at them. And he kept swooping down and honking at them.” Cox said that calves will hide under brush, and it is likely that employees removing the cattle would not see them. “I also know my dad’s cows, because a few of those cows out there are my own personal cows,” she said. “When you push them too hard, or if you rope them they sulk. They’re kind of stubborn. And if they don’t want to go they’ll sulk. And if they get down and sulk they’ll sulk so long they won’t even get up, they’ll just die. So if you stress those cows out too much, they’ll do that.” “Do I think they are leaving baby calves out there? I do,” Cox said. “Do I think that cows are dying? I do.”