The House Committee on Natural Resources..representing our natural resources, our public lands, with our public money..is attacking Patagonia, a private company, and defender of our natural resources and our public lands.
On Twitter with their official account:
And also In E-mails from the Deputy Press Secretary of the House Committee on Natural Resources:
(images above and below are screenshots of their actual posts and e-mails)
Apparently this is all being done because Patagonia announced it is suing President Trump over the proposed reduction in Bears Ears and Grand Staircase National Monuments.
...”Apparel maker Patagonia Inc. sued President Donald Trump over his decision to reduce the size of the Bears Ears national monument in Utah in a case joined by conservation and preservation groups.
The retailer claims Trump’s Dec. 4 decision to substantially reduce the size of Bears Ears -- to about 220,000 acres from 1.4 million acres -- exceeds his authority under the 1906 Antiquities Act. Patagonia has been considered an “activist company” nearly since it was started in 1973 by climber Yvon Chouinard.
Patagonia and the groups are seeking a court order blocking the move, according to papers filed late Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Washington. The suit is at least the fifth to be filed in the wake of Trump’s announcement. Other suits were by environmental groups and Native American tribes...”
www.bloomberg.com/…
If anything, such blatant abuse of public funds to fight private entities and the public over public lands is corruption beyond the pale and should help Patagonia’s case.
However, who knows what corrupt Koch Brothers judge will hear this case? Or what SCOTUS would do with it now that we have Gorsuch and not Garland sitting there?
This diary being written with the hope that public awareness will cause voters to be more woke when the next opportunity arises to vote for your House Rep in 2018.