Public-land transfer proponents may have violated lobbying laws
By Joshua Zaffos, High Country News
The central organization that advocates for Western states to take over federal public lands, Utah state Rep. Ken Ivory’s American Lands Council, is apparently running roughshod over state legislative rules.
The Colorado secretary of state announced last week that it has “reasonable grounds to believe” the ALC may have violated state lobbying and disclosure rules for failing to report political spending or to register as a lobbyist. The ALC, which leads the West-wide movement to transfer federal lands to states’ control, emailed Colorado supporters this spring to build backing for a bill that would have created a county commissioner-led task force to study the benefits of public-lands transfer to the state of Colorado. (The Senate bill failed by one vote.) The ALC has ushered similar bills through nearly every Western state legislature, with varying success.
The notice of possible violations followed an April complaint from Colorado Ethics Watch, a nonprofit watchdog group.
The people need to get their act together and start ‘cleaning’ their own houses.
El Dorado and Douglas Counties and the City of Lake Tahoe are so corrupt that they are on the verge of being taken over by State and Federal agencies which are sadly even more corrupt.
STOP RCI(rectal cranial inversion) NOW
The Feds violate the law CONSTANTLY. How ’bout they set an example by functioning Constitutionally. Hell, even if they functioned according to THEIR OWN laws (good luck deciphering the codes) we’d be getting somewhere.
Hard to expect the peons to obey the rules when the Kings so blatantly disregard them.