After Meeting With Sheriff, Bundy Says He Still Won’t Leave Oregon Refuge

Ammon Bundy, one of the sons of Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy, smiles as he arrives for a news conference at Malheur National Wildlife Refuge after meeting with Harney County Sheriff David Ward Thursday, Jan. 7, 2016,... Ammon Bundy, one of the sons of Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy, smiles as he arrives for a news conference at Malheur National Wildlife Refuge after meeting with Harney County Sheriff David Ward Thursday, Jan. 7, 2016, near Burns, Ore. Ward and two other Oregon sheriffs met Thursday with Bundy, the leader of an armed group occupying a federal wildlife refuge and asked them to leave, after residents made it clear they wanted them to go home. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer) MORE LESS
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Ammon Bundy, one of the leaders of a militia that has taken over a federal wildlife refuge in Oregon, said that a Thursday meeting with the county sheriff had not persuaded him to leave.

Harney County Sheriff David Ward asked Bundy to leave and sought a peaceful resolution with the militia

Following the meeting, Bundy told reporters that the militiamen will not leave the refuge until residents gain control of Harney County, according to The Oregonian.

“Until we can see that there is a great momentum and the people can get doing that themselves, then we will remain,” Bundy said, according to The Oregonian. “That could be a week, that could be a year.”

Bundy said that he would consider what Ward said, but told reporters that he did not believe the sheriff addressed the militia’s grievances, according to Reuters.

Ward initially said on Thursday that he would meet with the militia again on Friday. But after hearing Bundy’s comments to reporters after the meeting, the sheriff said that he would not call the militiamen on Friday, according to The Oregonian.

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  1. Let the local community go in with pitchforks , that’ll soon clear them out .

  2. There is a REALLY, really easy way to get these morons to leave; Turn off the TV cameras and send all the Media home.
    With no Media glare to bathe in, these Yahoos will all drift back to their boring, tiny, unimportant lives.

  3. Avatar for pshah pshah says:

    Well…he’s been warned. I don’t imagine the Feds will just walk away this time.

  4. Yep that there Sheriff is the highest authority, except when he does not say what you want to hear.

  5. The Bundys knew the Sheriff could not address their issues. They were playing around, buying time and hoping that other militia types woul dget their government checks in time to get out there to help them.

    I keep reading comments elsewhere that say, these guys are peaceful, so we should just wait them out. I still don’t see an armed occupation of a building as peaceful- especially when you make threats and state your not there to shoot at anyone, but to die. That’s not peaceful at all.

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