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 governments 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 shouldnt 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 governments 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 were in tune with each other.
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