Edit: Lands Task Force Wastes $$$

Funny thing about the Idaho Legislature’s public lands task force: Its final report reads as if Idaho Deputy Attorney General Steve Strack was the author. Two years ago, Strack - chief of Attorney General Lawrence Wasden’s natural resources section with 26 years experience - told the task force something it did not want to hear: The idea of suing the federal government into relinquishing millions of acres to the state was doomed to failure. Strack said it ran afoul of the Property Clause of the U.S. Constitution, which gives Congress absolute control over disposal of federal lands. The task force report agrees. Strack pointed out the U.S. Supreme Court has reiterated that idea time and again. It’s in the task force’s report/ Marty Trillhaase , Lewiston Tribune. More here .

Question: Why do tight-fisted GOP legislators get buffaloed into seeking outside council for futile causes?