Below is an excerpt from Jim Sanford's weekly Op-Ed column in the Mason Valley News that deals with the wilderness proposal in Lyon County. If you would like to read Sanford's editorial in its entirety, please click
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Two Cents Worth: CAUTION: Feds could be
playing games with wilderness Las Vegas Mayor says California fields
can go fallow to supply Sin City water
CAUTION
OVER WILDERNESS PROPOSALS: Let's just be sure we don't get caught in a
government version of the old bait and switch con game. Could it be
that the feds have expanded their wilderness proposals to such
proportions on purpose to draw public outrage? Then they can back off,
say they recognize public concerns and desires and then "negotiate"
right back to the proposal they wanted all the time--thus letting us
feel like we actually won something.
No way to know for sure, but
let's be careful. If that sounds like I don't trust the feds, you're
right. Paranoid even, because they have given us no reason for trust.
When
they get good and ready, watch for legislation attached by Senator
Harry Reid to one of his appropriations bills, which draws automatic
support from other members of Congress who want money for pet projects
at home. It might even come in the middle of the night like it did with
White Pine County.
Have any doubt that could happen? Ask Nevada Governor Jim Gibbons about the tactics.
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