[MCN] Rep Kerry White's Group Alleges he was "Threatened" by Enviros and Needed Police Protection

[Matthew Koehler]

Hello:

All Montana citizens need to know that on February 20 Rep Kerry White’s
organization, Citizens For Balanced Use, made a post on their Facebook page
in which they made (up) entirely false allegations that environmentalists
supposedly “threatened” Rep Kerry White during the hearing for HJ 9 and
that for his own safety Rep Kerry White was ‘escorted out of the Montana
Capital under police protection.”

Here is a copy of the (now removed) Facebook post from Rep Kerry White’s
CBU:

http://forestpolicypub.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Kerry-White-CBU.png

And here is the audio of the entire hearing on HJ 9, which was a resolution
encouraging Congress to release Wilderness Study Areas on federal public
lands in Montana (totally about 700,000) for logging, motorized use and
other forms of development:
http://montanalegislature.granicus.com/MediaPlayer.php?clip_id=22109&meta_id=196931

The audio recording of the entire hearing reveals zero evidence that Rep
Kerry White was 'threatened' "during their comment period” as CBU claimed
in their Facebook post.

There is zero evidence during the audio recording of the hearing that
anyone engaged in "threats" of "bodily harm."

There was also zero evidence from the audio recording that any of the
environmentalists named by name in CBU's Facebook post even made any public
comments during the entire hearing.

I’ve also confirmed that some of the environmentalists named by name in
CBU’s Facebook post did NOT attend the hearing at all and have never had
any contact at all with Rep Kerry White.

Rep Kerry White’s CBU also made additional comments on their original
Facebook post in which they printed the phone numbers of the some of the
environmentalists they listed by name.

It appears Rep Kerry White’s Citizens For Balanced Use are just lying and
they in fact are the ones threatening environmentalists by name with some
entirely made up and baseless allegations.

We have requested that the Montana news media look into these serious
allegations made by Rep Kerry White’s Citizens For Balanced Use. We shall
see if the news media in Montana actually finds this newsworthy.

Thanks,

Matthew Koehler
WildWest Institute
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