Questions For Senators Who Support Trump BLM Nominee “Sell-Off Steve” Pearce
Steve Pearce Has Spent His Career Doing the Biding of Industry by Trying to Sell Off Public Lands and Deny Public Access
HELENA, MT – “Sell-off Steve” Pearce, Donald Trump’s anti-public land, anti-public access crony, is getting massive blowback in his quest to be confirmed as head of the Bureau of Land Management. The BLM oversees a quarter-billion acres of public lands in the United States, and Pearce has a long track record of working to sell them off and putting monied interests like Big Oil ahead of other public land users and the American people.
If confirmed by the Republican-controlled Senate, Pearce would be in a plum position to help himself and other anti-public land zealots like Utah Senator Mike Lee along with floundering Interior Secretary Doug Burgum do Trump’s dirty work of dismantling America’s great outdoors. Corrupt retired sellouts like “Sell-off Steve” shouldn’t be within a country mile of the BLM, and anyone who cares about keeping public lands in public hands must publicly oppose his nomination to head the Bureau.
Here are seven key questions all the Republican senators supporting “Sell-off Steve” must answer:
Why do you support a BLM nominee who has spent his entire career trying to sell off public lands?
Do you agree with Steve Pearce who has criticized historical conservation efforts, including “Teddy Roosevelt who had the big ideas of big forests and big national parks?”
Why should the American people trust someone who was named one of the “most corrupt members” of Congress to oversee the U.S.’s largest land managing bureau and America’s public lands?
Is Pearce still profiting from oil and gas equipment rental, as he did during his time in Congress, and how can Americans be assured that Pearce’s pattern of corruption and self-dealing has ended?
Will Pearce commit to protect the BLM’s mission and civil servants or will he try to defund the BLM ethics office to protect himself so he can continue to self-deal?
In his memoir, Pearce stated that “the wife is to voluntarily submit to the husband.” Do senators who support Pearce agree with him?
Will Pearce commit to doing his own work, or will he plagiarize the work of others, as was common in his congressional office?
To speak with Save Our Parks spokesperson Jayson O’Neill, email jayson@focalpointstrategygroup.com.
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