Koch brother funded think tank is behind Utahs anti-monument push

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A Utah resolution calling for the elimination of Bears Ears National Monument turns out to have been authored by a conservative think tank that is largely funded by the Koch brothers, according to documents and IRS filings.

Emails obtained by the Western Values Project and reported by E&E News on Wednesday show that the Sutherland Institute — a conservative Utah think tank — wrote the resolution that Utah lawmakers approved in January. That resolution, sponsored by House Speaker Greg Hughes (R) and Senate President Wayne Niederhauser (R), urged President Trump to rescind Bears Ears national monument, a 1.35-million acre national monument designated by President Obama in December of 2016.

In May, Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke visited Bears Ears monument for a tour alongside Utah Congressman Rob Bishop (R) and political operative Matt Anderson, a senior policy fellow with Federalism in Action and a policy analyst with the Coalition for Self-Government in the West, a project of the Sutherland Institute. According to the newly released emails, Anderson was asked to “provide language” for the resolution.

Both the Sutherland Institute and Federalism in Action receive funds from the State Policy Network, a tax-exempt group dedicated to helping conservative think tanks around the country. The State Policy Network has deep ties to the Koch brothers, receiving millions in donations from Donors Trust and Donors Capital Fund.

https://thinkprogress.org/koch-brothers-bears-ears-52796636b04d

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1. it is long past time for the kock-sucker brothers to die...

...painful, prolonged deaths with no comfort, no charity, no condolence.

[Wellstone ruled]

2. Nothing suprising with this

happening in Utah. Koch Family has long supported the John Birch Society and the American Independence Party which were organized in Utah.

Ignorance of the potential Environmental Damage does not see the light of day in Utah. This is all about the money from Extractables,and there is one Religious Cult that will win if this goes forward. They are holders of large acreages in and around these Monuments.

Here is the real kicker,Tourism is the Largest Employer in Utah. Shoot yourself in the foot already.