Nevada GOPer Allied With Bundy Family Offers Support To Oregon Militia

Nevada Assemblywoman Michelle Fiore, R-Las Vegas, works in committee during the final day of the 77th Legislative session at the Legislative Building in Carson City, Nev., on Monday, June 3, 2013. (AP Photo/Cathleen Allison)
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Bundy family ally and Nevada Assemblywoman Michele Fiore (R) on Saturday night called the armed militiamen who are illegally occupying a federal wildlife refuge in rural Oregon to offer her support.

Fiore told Oregon Public Broadcasting that she called Ammon Bundy, the de facto leader of the occupation, but wouldn’t give more specifics about the call.

She did tell the radio station that other Republican lawmakers, including Oregon state Rep. Dallas Heard, met with the militiamen in person. Heard didn’t respond to a request for comment from OPB and Fiore didn’t name the other lawmakers who were allegedly present.

“We just need to get elected officials from the sheriff’s office on up protecting citizens,” Fiore told OPB. “I stand for our citizens and they need help from elected officials.”

Fiore has been an ardent supporter of the Bundy family since its patriarch, Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy, sparked a standoff with federal agents in 2014 after refusing to pay decades of grazing fees. She sponsored legislation in March to bar the federal ownership of land without express consent of the state.

Armed militiamen, including Bundy’s sons, seized an unoccupied federal building at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in the eastern Oregon desert on Jan. 2. They’ve since been asking for supplies despite law enforcement saying they are free to leave at any time.

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  1. Her family can all put on their Christmas outfits and go out to Oregon and help fight the bad guys.

  2. Why doesn’t she just strap on all her leathers and go up there in person ? ? — Oh …

  3. Shit for brains. Explains the massive growth of hair.

  4. Avatar for wwss wwss says:

    Can’t the pock-marked bimbette be jailed along with the other law-breakers once the “situation” comes to it’s inevitable end? Not only bigoted, well-armed and ugly, but it seems to me she’s breaking her oath of office.

  5. Avatar for sanni sanni says:

    “We just need to get elected officials from the sheriff’s office on up protecting citizens,” Fiore told OPB. “I stand for our citizens and they need help from elected officials.”

    IOW: Oregon elected officials need to come out and protect ‘our’ (Nevada) citizens, who were asked by the local Oregon community to leave.

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