Meet Trump's
extremist pick
leading the BLM:
William Pendley

William Pendley

Pendley’s Views are So Dangerous That He Called for the Sale of America’s Public Lands

‘The Federal Government Should Follow the Constitution and Sell Its Western Lands’

By William Perry Pendley

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Reject Pendley’s Bid to Lead the Bureau of Land Management

William Perry Pendley is

— An anti-public lands zealot

— A self-proclaimed Sagebrush Rebel

— A conflicted pro-industry extremist

— A Cliven Bundy sympathizer

He has no place at the Bureau of Land Management.

Pendley has spent his life working to

— Sell America’s public lands

— Undermine America’s public lands protections

— Jeopardize America’s outdoor heritage and Western way of life

Now, he wants to lead the Bureau of Land Management — the largest public lands management agency in the country — cashing in a taxpayer-funded paycheck while putting our public lands in peril?

We don’t think so.

History

— 1981

Pendley calls for the sale of all BLM lands east of the Mississippi

— 1981

Pendley pushes for more drilling and mining areas

— 1983

Nomination to be Interior’s Assistant Secretary for Energy and Minerals failed after questions arose about politically screening scientists advising the department about oil and gas drilling in the Outer Continental Shelf.

— 1983

Pendley offers interest-free loans to oil companies

— 1983

Pendley approved a below-market coal lease — the Powder River Basin — the same day he dined with coal industry representatives

— 1990

Pendley compares environmental activists to “Hilter’s Brownshirts”

— 1992

Pendley pens a letter to the editor defending Sahara Club, a radical anti-environment group dedicated to “fighting eco-freaks and keeping public lands free”

— 2007

Pendley wrote an article criticizing the US forest service for protecting land considered sacred to Native Americans

— 2013

Pendley calls the Endangered Species Act “unconstitutional”

— 2014

Pendley sides with Cliven Bundy in an armed standoff in Nevada

— 2014

Pendley says FWS needs “adult supervision”

— 2015

Pendley says the National Environmental Policy Act is a “terrible burden”

— 2015

Pendley calls sage grouse protections “draconian” and an “illegal rule”

— 2016

Pundley sympathizes with Ammond Bundy’s armed standoff on the Malheur Wildlife Refuge

— 2016

Pendley backs Solenex in their push to lease on Badger-Two Medicine

— 2016

Pendley says Trump can’t pull off Reagan’s boots

— 2017

Pendley calls on Pres. Trump to get rid of monument designations

— 2019

Pendley calls for the repeal of the Antiquities Act

Here's the Bottom Line

Pendley is an anti-government radical who is even MORE conflicted than Interior Secretary David Bernhardt.

Like a fox in a hen house, Pendley running the Bureau of Land Management is an unprecedented threat to our public lands.
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