The cost of the Oregon Wildlife Refuge Occupation .... $3.3 million so far ... Oregon Live

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http://www.oregonlive.com/oregon-standoff/2016/02/33_million_and_counting_the_co.html

The 41-day occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge cost taxpayers at least $3.3 million to cover the massive police response, a week of shuttered schools and a long list of supplies ranging from food to flashlight batteries, according to an Oregonian/OregonLive analysis of public and tribal budgets.

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The FBI, still in the midst of a criminal investigation, announced that it turned over control of the refuge to the Fish & Wildlife Service late Tuesday afternoon. The agency can only now begin to assess the damage that dozens of interlopers caused after they moved into the refuge headquarters compound. They used backhoes, government trucks and computers and left piles of garbage and feces in their wake, federal investigators said.

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Here is a breakdown of some of the largest costs:
• $1.2 million – the cost to Oregon State Police for wages, overtime, lodging and fuel.
• $521,800 – the cost to Harney County, its schools, Burns and Hines.
• $788,500 – the cost to local agencies throughout Oregon that responded to Harney County.
• $611,000 – the amount paid to federal workers while the Bureau of Land Management and U.S. Forest Service were closed.
• $150,000 – the estimated amount (so far) paid by the Burns Paiute Tribe.
Much of the estimate reflects the expense of having scores of police officers from across the state converge on Harney County for more than a month for around-the-clock work. The cost to Oregon State Police alone stands at more than $1.2 million, the analysis found.

Another $788,500 paid for help from other police and government agencies that responded from outside the county – mostly sheriff's offices that sent deputies to help patrol. That amount also included compensation for police officers from cities including Portland and Eugene and 911 dispatchers from places including Hood River.

The overall figure includes money to pay the wages of employees who couldn't go to work – for instance, $425,000 for about 120 workers at the U.S. Bureau of Land Management who stayed home while their offices were closed.

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I hope those idiots are made to pay back every penny after they get out of jail and in the meantime
I hope that all their homes, cars, and property is seized.

[longship]

1. Just throw away the keys.

That's what one does in this case. Let them ponder their madness until... Well, one gets the idea.

[tabasco]

2. How many license plates does that add up to?

The Bundy clan is going to be busy for awhile.