The case against Tracey Stone-Manning
So there is no confusion let me start off by clarifying - that is a woman pictured above. She is Joe Biden's choice to lead the Bureau of Land Management. Like most of his selections, she is a hard line radical leftist, but that is not all! There is the issue of Ms. Stone-Manning’s honesty concerning her past involvement with the eco-terrorist group Earth First . It seems that she was actively involved with such a group group in 1989 when there was an incident of tree spiking, a federal crime "in which activists halt logging by loading trees with spikes that hurt loggers and mill workers." Of course she was asked about it by the Senate Energy and Natural Resources committee. Stone-Manning told Senators that she knew nothing of the plot and did not recall “ever discussing tree spiking” with the perpetrators. The reason she didn't immediately turn them in to authorities was that she “did not actually know if they had done what the letter described.”
There is one little problem. It looks like she may be lying to the Senate Committee:
" Michael Merkley, a retired special agent for the Forest Service, in a four-page letter to the committee says Ms. Stone-Manning was “not an innocent bystander.” After an investigation led his team to search the Missoula residence where Ms. Stone-Manning and other Earth First! members had lived, he says, a grand jury served subpoenas “on persons suspected of having knowledge of the incident, including Ms. Tracy Stone-Manning.”
Mr. Merkley reports that Ms. Stone-Manning through his investigation was “vulgar, antagonistic, and extremely anti-government” and refused to provide the hair, handwriting and fingerprint samples ordered by the grand jury until threatened with arrest. She refused to answer questions, leaving investigators in the dark for years about the suspects.
Mr. Merkley says that in 1992 he made contact with another woman in the group, who exposed the spikers and Ms. Stone-Manning’s involvement. But this woman also “recounted a conversation she had overheard wherein Ms. Stone-Manning along with other co-conspirators planned the tree spiking and discussed whether to use metal or ceramic spikes in the trees.” This testimony, he says, inspired the grand jury to send Ms. Stone-Manning “a ‘target letter’ which meant she was going to be indicted on criminal charges.” She negotiated a deal “to gain immunity in exchange for her testimony.”
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-stone-manning-files-11626474559
How serious is this type of activity?
Why are they called Eco-terrorists?
"A 12-foot section of the huge sawblade had broken off and hit sawmill worker George Alexander in the throat and face, ripping through his face mask and cutting into his jugular vein. His jaw was broken in five places and a dozen teeth were knocked out. The blade was wrapped around him, and his co-workers had to blowtorch it off while they tried to keep him from bleeding to death."
via The Secret History of Tree Spiking - Part 1
"Republicans have also questioned her relationship with a Montana developer involving a $60,000 loan she took from him while working as a staffer for then-Sen. Jon TesterD-Mont., two years after she publicly supported a subdivision the developer was seeking approval for, according to Forbes .
"The White House showed no sign of backing down as it reiterated support for Stone-Manning in a statement issued Friday."
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/bureau-of-land-management-nominee-stone-manning-gets-party-line-vote-amid-strong-gop-opposition/ar-AAMrQDv?ocid=uxbndlbing
You can't believe it's happening?
It may be time for some to look within themselves if they cast a vote for Biden last November.
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As you may have guessed by now, the vote is divided along party lines.
There is no doubt what democrats stand for.
pffft, anyone even slightly to the left of a hard line radical trumpster is considered a leftist these days.
Only to radical leftists and the TDS ridden .....
As Chief James Craig used to say "This type of behavior won't be tolerated."
For 4 years the gop was like, "The President can hire whoever he wants. Elections have consequences".
Now the gop is all like, "WHAAA WHAAA WHAAA!"
You can never simply appoint people to important posts. You'll need all hands on deck to get this liar approved.
Got an example of one of those "whoever he wants" that had to pass muster in Congress but bypassed it?
Yeah didn't think so........................
She not the worst one he nominated.
She's Mother Theresa compared to the likes of Neera Tanden
Or Kristen Clarke.
Yeah, I don't know her as well.
Tanden is one of the reasons i stopped watching Meet the Press .... well Chuck Todd too .....
"Republicans have also questioned her relationship with a Montana developer involving a $60,000 loan she took from him while working as a staffer for then-Sen. Jon TesterD-Mont., two years after she publicly supported a subdivision the developer was seeking approval for,
no wonder Biden’s standing by her.
And don't forget Jon Tester is also a big supporter!
Yeah, no conflict of interest there ..... lol
It's called a mutual interest! So that's three strikes for Stone-Manning: She participated in terrorist acts, she lied about it and her corrupt acts.
The head of the BLM under the prior administration...
And his boss the Secretary of the Interior, Zinke left the office in disgrace.
Yeah, let's whine about Stone-Manning..LMAO
Lol .... comparing a man with a decorated, 20+ year military career with a person who supported eco terrorists.
Yeah, sounds about right considering.
20 years of service and then disgraced himself and resigned amid numerous investigations..
Yup, sure did compare them.
Yeah, i understand ..... classic liberal rationalization for partisan effect. I understand that mentality well.
I've been dealing with that union management mentality for nearly 40 years so i'm more or less an expert in it.
That said if what he did was so heinous they should go after and prosecute him. Until then, in the regular world, he's innocent until proven guilty. All Americans are supposed to be afforded that right but especially Vets that retired out of the service honorably.
So yeah, you support an eco terrorist and i support a decorated Vet. I can live with that all day, every day.
It doesn't seem that you do understand, just more projection on your part.
So you say, self-proclaimed experts are just that, self-proclaimed.
The fact is that he resigned in disgrace. Make of it what you will.
Until she is convicted of being an eco terrorist she is innocent as you stated above. Yup, I can live with supporting her over Zinke.
Lol ... hardly
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I loved watching BM's and BA's shooting themselves in the foot with mentalities like that. It was hilarious but very sad for the membership they were hurting.
Blah, blah, blah .... my comment stands on it's own merit
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A great comment with nothing but whining and no facts. [deleted]
Yep, always nice to get feedback which establishes how spot on my comments are so thx for that pal!
Another factless comment.
Nah, the facts are the facts.
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Nothing new here .... SOSDD considering ....
The BLM has not had a Senate approved Director since 01/20/2017.
The previous Administration had more "Acting" Department heads (22) and Cabinet members (28) in 3 years than most 8 year Administrations.
In order to circumvent the Senate and the Federal Vacancies Reform Act, Trump "delegated" authority to loyal subordinates.
Every POTUS sets or breaks precedent.
Biden would bear no shame in naming TSM the "Acting Director" or "the senior official performing the duties of the Director of BLM",
It's now precedent.
Oh wait, even though you just stated that a judge found that Trump violated the law. So then Biden gets to violate it as well? Sounds like another load of horseshit from the left.
There are time limits for how long an appointment can be in an "Acting" capacity, I believe it is 300 days ( or 7 months ) by statute.
There are also time limits within the Federal Vacancies Act in order to keep Presidents from keeping the Senate from approving their lawful right to approve said appointments, I believe its 260 days ( or 6 months).
The Judge clearly found the Trump Administration was willfully violating the law and circumventing the Senate.
I have a feeling that most of Biden's appointments will go through the Senate as designed.
You should know, you have certainly thrown your share of road apples.
I might like her for the position if she could pull the corn cobb out of her arse long enough to actually be human but she clearly can't. One look at her and i see a hateful radical who couldn't discharge the duties she is being considered for in an unbiased manner if her life depended on it.
No way, no how .....
I kind of got an inkling of that too!
hmmmm... The Trump admin tried to dismantled BLM by moving the 200 DC BLM workers (only 60 people moved the rest quit or retired) to CO under William Perry Pendley who was appointed to the post illegally. A man that made his career suing the very same agency. Talk about a fundamental conflict of interest.
Let's see who is this Tracy Stone-Manning - according to WIKI:
So yes, she is a controversial pick, being an environmental protection advocate, but she is qualified. There might be reasons to log, mine or drill some of this land, but it must be done thoughtfully and carefully. I'd hope there would be some moderation, but between a pro big business insider and a pro environmentalist? I'll pick the environmentalist every time.
Not sure what your point is. Moving from the DC swamp to Colorado? Trump did them a favor IMO.
That said, a Director of such a department should represent all the peoples best interest to the best of their ability. Not just a small subset of fundamentalists. It's very doubtful she could be thoughtful and unbiased in that regard running the BLM. Not with her background, No way.
Your opinion is noted and rejected.
Did you oppose the Pendley pick then?
I didn't say she would be. I said I'd hoped we'd have a more moderate pick.
That would matter if it mattered .... which it doesn't
He was never up for confirmation.
Well you can have hope in one hand and road apples in the other .... see which overflows first ....
The same as yours.
He served for 14 months without confirmation until a judge made him step down. Your attempt as dissembling isn't working.
Road apples sounds like what Trumpublicans will have to deal with for now.
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ummmm....
Lol .... so what am i attempting to conceal?
Sorry, that definition of the word is DOA as well ....
Considering I'm not supporting this pick for BLM why the hell are you still arguing anyway?
If you don't want responses, don't post.
I'm sure she has a lot of allies composing seeds on Wiki. Btw one of the founders of Wiki appologiged to the public last night on Tucker Carlson:
https://thepostmillennial.com/watch-wikipedia-co-founder-tells-tucker-carlson-he-regrets-creating-the-website#:~:text=WATCH%3A%20Wikipedia%20co-founder%20tells%20Tucker%20Carlson%20he%20regrets,by%20what%20I%20got%20started%2020%20years%20ago.%22
Carlson's show is for entertainment purposes only. That's in public court records now. I don't take advice from Tucker Carlson or SpongeBob SquarePants.
Okay...? I can as easily say that her opposition is composing seeds on Wiki. Neither one is true without verification.
Not according to the Wikipedia co-founder. I guess Tucker Carlson is much more than entertinment. You might have learned something.
No, what'shisname isn't even entertaining.
Learned what?
That the co-founder of Wikipedia regrets he ever started the site.
So there is no confusion let me start off by clarifying - that is a woman pictured above.
What an odd comment. The woman in the picture is clearly a woman.
That's where I stopped reading.
Well, every body and every thing has to pass the Vic test before it can be declared so. s/