Rand Paul meets with criminal rancher Cliven Bundy
Sitting in the audience at a Rand Paul event in Nevada on Monday was none other than rancher and anti-government activist Cliven Bundy.
The Kentucky Republican and 2016 presidential contender met with Bundy at his question-and-answer session in Mesquite, Nevada, The Associated Press reported. There, Paul reportedly answered questions about the federal government’s Bureau of Land Management, which engaged in a standoff with Bundy in 2014.
Paul told the AP in a separate interview that he favored federally owned land being handed back to the states. “I think almost all land use issues and animal issues, endangered species issues, ought to be handled at the state level,” he said. “I think that the government shouldn’t interfere with state decisions, so if a state decides to have medical marijuana or something like that, it should be respected as a state decision.”
Bundy made headlines in 2014 for a standoff with the federal government’s Bureau of Land Management over grazing fees. Armed supporters gathered with Bundy in April of that year to help him protest more than $1 million owed to the federal government — a situation that was temporarily defused but has not yet fully resolved.
After the event, the Nevada rancher told the AP why he had come out to support Paul: “In general, I think we’re in tune with each other.”
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