Why do so many Mormons back Trump? Some say it's about the land
Trump’s Utah campaign chief shrugs off Stormy Daniels and praises cuts to parks: ‘The land belongs more to me than you’
Jeremy Miller in Salt Lake City
Sun 10 Jun 2018 06.00 EDT
Don Peay looks out over Salt Lake City, Utah. ‘My great-great-grandfather came here from England and crossed the plains when he was fourteen years old.’ Photograph: Jeremy Miller for the Guardian
In February 2017, weeks after the inauguration of Donald Trump, a conservative political operative named Don Peay trudged up a steep, sagebrush-covered hillside outside Salt Lake City. Peay served as Trump’s campaign manager in Utah and is a hunting advocate who has gone out shooting with rightwing icons such as Dick Cheney, Ted Nugent and Donald Trump Jr.
Peay wanted to point out a particular parcel of public land that used to be overrun by highly invasive cheat grass. Several years ago, he worked with local land managers to revegetate it with native plants favored by deer and elk.
“We’re proud of what we’ve done here,” Peay said. “It shows that local people know the land better than bureaucrats from Washington or tourists from California.”
“Doesn’t it belong to all of us?” I asked, noting that the land we stood upon was managed by the federal government, in trust for the American people.
His answer was unexpected.
“Yeah,” he replied. “But it belongs more to me than it does to you.”
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/jun/10/utah-public-lands-mormons-national-parks-trump
Hey Peay.............................FUCK YOU and your manifest destiny of Bull shit asshole..................Fuck You again
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morals. End of story.
