GOP solons ignored Malheur order

Just days before the start of the 2016 Washington Legislature, state Rep. Matt Shea and a handful of other Republican lawmakers from around the West arrived in Burns, Oregon, saying they wanted to help negotiate a peaceful resolution to the standoff at the nearby federal wildlife refuge. Local officials told them to go home; their help wasn’t wanted and there was nothing to negotiate. The protesters occupying the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge could leave the facility and the state, local law enforcement representatives said. Or they could remain and be arrested. If the lawmakers went out to the refuge, it could embolden the demonstrators, and they might stay in the refuge for weeks, or even months, Harney County Judge Steve Grasty told the group. Don’t go, he said/ Jim Camden , SR. More here.