NC Rep. Taylor Lies to Block Netroots Action on Forest Sale
by The Southern Dem, Fri Mar 24, 2006 at 11:41:30 AM EST
Rep. Charles Taylor (R-NC) isn't known for his honesty. His latest blatant lie takes the cake, though. The NC Netroots, led by Scrutiny Hooligans, WataugaWatch and BlueNC has been working to fight the unprecedented sale of 300,000+ acres of our national forests. Taylor put out a press release(no link, but it is printed below) saying he had shut the sale down, which resulted in a newspaper article and the cancellation of a big push to oppose the sale in North Carolina. (Update: Macon News has already updated the article while I was writing this.)
Imagine how surprised the USDA Forest Service communications office was this morning when I called them to verify that the sale was off. I could actually picture the woman's head spinning. She replied emphatically, that the Bush administration still wanted to sell this land to support rural schools and that Mr. Taylor was wrong, the sale was not off.
Why would Charles Taylor be so interested in curbing the tide rising up against this proposition? Find out below the fold....
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