and one of the provisions of living there basically tax free is if you claim your land is a animal sanctuary. Which becomes a massive tax write off.

there was an article I read last year regarding this.I could be completely wrong but I don't thinks so.

I bet they are leaning on Daines to prevent the opening of the lands and spoiling their views.

I have more rational reasons, but the rich do what the rich do. and if this helps get the bill stopped, great.

... however what you say makes sense. They don't want the yahoos coming in and spoiling their little corner of tax-free Montana paradise. Why should they have to share with anyone else?

Completely craven.

Even 15 years ago, Lee would need to ground the exemption in some clownish pretext, but now they come right out and say it: you get an exemption if you vote for the bill, quid pro quo, right there out in the open.

These people are corrupt sickos.

Destroying the country, destroying the economy, going to war on a whim, all good...Not being able to run cattle or hunt and fish on public lands...unforgivable.

It's not what the average voters feel that counts, it's the lobbyists controlled by the timber, mining, fossil fuel and ranching money.

They're sovereign citizen idiots and welfare ranchers. Think Malheur NWR Occupation.

They still pay 19th century grazing fees.

Of all the horrors in that bill, selling off federal lands is the one that rouses him?

He, and the rest of GOP, knows what a colossal screwing to the nation this shit-bill is, and are looking for anything they can find to avoid voting for it.

Who knows what he really said.

but I've never seen them calling things wrong since I started following them several years ago...

(although their headlines might sometimes be a little "click-baity", that I will admit)

Though I can't remember the details now.

so if they were 'wrong once', well.... still better than the NYT...

I have found them to be a good source for "liberal talking points"...

I don't like media sources that just tell Democrats what we want to hear. That's me though.

on what the Republican criminals are actually trying to DO!--- and in detail---
and their stories almost always are the same as I read from slower sources, afterwards...


Far as I can tell, some Democrats may have a problem with 'Raw Story'
only because they may 'try too hard' to get people's attention---
but trying to get people's attention for the sake of fighting against fascism today
is a great service to liberty, freedom and democracy, and a job that needs to be done---

so if they sometimes go a little overboard with their headlines---
I have NO PROBLEM with that!

When I think I should hear something that I might not want to hear,
FAUX NEWS is within easy reach!!!!!

or maybe even CNN....

I'm good with that. I'm not inclined to deny any of them 'political cover'---
as long as they VOTE AGAINST THIS "FINAL SOLUTION" AGAINST The MOST POOR!