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mahatmakanejeeves

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Mon Jul 5, 2021, 07:00 AM Jul 2021

As a student, Tracy Stone-Manning sent a letter on behalf of eco-saboteurs. It's now complicating...

Predictably, a lot of the comments to the article are along the lines of "we all do stupid things when we're young, so let's let bygones be bygones."

Does this policy apply to nominees to the Supreme Court?

Rationalize this remarkable display of mental gymnastics. Show your work.

Climate and Environment

As a student, Tracy Stone-Manning sent a letter on behalf of eco-saboteurs. It’s now complicating her chance to lead the Bureau of Land Management.

Republicans have called her an environmental extremist, but the Biden administration has stood by her nomination.

By Joshua Partlow and Dino Grandoni
July 4, 2021 at 12:24 p.m. EDT

One spring day in 1989, Tracy Stone rented a typewriter from the University of Montana library and began to retype a letter. ... The typewriter was to avoid using her personal computer. The letter was an anonymous warning to the U.S. Forest Service that someone had hammered hundreds of metal spikes into trees in an Idaho forest that was slated to be cut down for timber.

An acquaintance in her circle of young environmentalists had asked her to send it. After fixing a few spelling mistakes and removing some profanity, Stone dropped it in the mail.

It was a decision that has followed her, now Tracy Stone-Manning, for more than 30 years, through her rise in Montana politics to become one of the country’s prominent environmentalists and public lands experts and now President Biden’s nominee to lead the Bureau of Land Management. The letter led to law enforcement raids on student houses and a grand jury investigation. Her testimony in the subsequent trial would help send two people to federal prison.

Now that Stone-Manning’s nomination is in the Senate, Republican opponents have seized on this incident and other issues to cast her as an environmental extremist who should be withdrawn as the nominee.

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Julie Tate contributed to this report.

By Josh Partlow
Joshua Partlow is a reporter on the The Washington Post’s national desk. He has served previously as the bureau chief in Mexico City, Kabul, Rio de Janeiro, and as a correspondent in Baghdad. Twitter https://twitter.com/partlowj

By Dino Grandoni
Dino Grandoni is a reporter on the national desk of The Washington Post, focused on covering the Environmental Protection Agency, climate change and other environmental issues. Twitter https://twitter.com/dino_grandoni
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As a student, Tracy Stone-Manning sent a letter on behalf of eco-saboteurs. It's now complicating... (Original Post) mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2021 OP
Meh. That's the worst thing? marble falls Jul 2021 #1
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Sending a letter - bad Deep State Witch Jul 2021 #3
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