MT: Lt. Guv’s Echo Chamber Flies High

Suppose U.S. Rep. Carolyn Maloney, D-N.Y., commandeers a government plane. She fills it with representatives of the Sierra Club, Greenpeace, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals and singer Carole King. Then they fly out to Idaho and other Western states to discuss how to pass the massive Northern Rockies Ecosystem Protection Act - which would transform 24 million acres of federal lands into designated wilderness areas. Nobody on that plane speaks for the Idaho rancher, logger or miner who would be dispossessed by that legislation. … You wouldn’t like it, right? So how is it any different when advocates of Idaho’s phosphate mining industry do the same thing?/ Marty Trillhaase , Lewiston Tribune. More here .

Question: Are you concerned about the trip taken by Lt. Gov. Brad Little, AG Lawrence Wasden, and others on the Mining Industry’s dime?