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

[George Nickas]

Nice post.  I wonder if we shouldn’t ask the legislature to investigate the supposed threats and the claims they occurred.  I have no idea how you do this, but maybe we need to ask some of the Missoula or Helena dems to pursue it.

It’s fake news rearing its head at the local-State level.

George


On Feb 23, 2017, at 12:54 PM, Matthew Koehler via Missoula-Community-News <missoula-community-news at bigskynet.org> wrote:

> 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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