Gee, no wonder Paul and Reid don't get along!
With Cliven Bundy listening, Rand Paul jabs BLM in NevadaMesquite, Nevada (CNN)Rand Paul argued Monday that public lands run by the federal government should be handed over to state or local control, making a crowd-pleasing rally cry in Nevada where 67% of the state is overseen by the Bureau of Land Management.
Sitting in that audience was Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy, who became a national figure last year after staging a standoff with the feds over a BLM dispute.
"I'd either sell or turn over all the land management to the states," Paul, a Republican presidential candidate and senator from Kentucky, said, landing him big applause at a campaign event. "I don't think the federal government needs to be involved."
On the third leg of a four-stop tour across the early caucus state, Paul made his comments at the Eureka casino in Mesquite in Southeast Nevada -- not far from Bundy's home.
Paul said Washington has become a "bully" that often goes too far in the regulation of both public and private land.
"You run into problems now with the federal government being, you know, this bully — this big huge government bully," he continued. "You would have less of that if you had more local ownership of the land. State ownership would be better, but even better would be private ownership."...
http://www.cnn.com/2015/06/30/politics/rand-paul-nevada-campaign-cliven-bundy/index.html
