Deep in California's Trump country, outrage over GOP bill, rural right pushes back on GOP plan to privatize public land

[Demovictory9]

Deep in California's Trump country, outrage over a GOP bill
NorCal's rural right pushes back on GOP plan to privatize public land

Cow Mountain, rising between Mendocino and Lake counties, is a favorite of rural Californians who value freedom, firearms and open space. Just two hours north of San Francisco, it’s a place where lifted trucks, dirt bikes and side-by-sides tear through trails carved into federally managed wilderness. Hunters post up at dawn. Gunshots echo from the public range.

For many conservative locals — off-roaders, ranchers and gun owners — that’s exactly what Cow Mountain represents: a wild, working landscape managed by the federal government but used and loved by the people.

So when a Republican-backed proposal threatens to sell off large sections of public land, including places like Cow Mountain, it’s not just environmentalists raising the alarm. Some of the loudest concerns are coming from the very conservative voters who helped send those politicians to Washington.

“I’m not blindly following Mr. Trump’s administration,” said Allan Schrange, a lifelong off-roader, Republican, self-avowed Trump voter, and president of the Mendocino 4x4 Club. “If he does something that’s not right in there, I’m going to be the first to raise a stink about it.”

https://www.sfgate.com/northcoast/article/blm-cow-mountain-under-threat-republican-bill-20383907.php

[RockRaven]

1. So why did you dumbasses vote for the party of privitizing public land year after year?

[Klarkashton]

2. Fuck those people.

They figured trump was going to write them all govt checks for 5k and musk was going to fire all the black people in Washington.
Only this is what they got.

[Disaffected]

3. Might be a good thing though if,

privatizing public land gets the off-roaders and hunters the hell away.

[Qutzupalotl]

4. "If he does something that's not right in there..."

IF?!

[hildegaard28]

5. And he'll be

The first to put to in prison for dissent, Alan. Make too much noise and he’ll send ICE escorted by the Marines straight to your doorstep to knock your door in.