LePage to Trump: Ax North Woods national monument

[jpak]

Source: Bangor Daily News

Gov. Paul LePage has asked President Donald Trump to reverse an executive order by the Obama administration that created the Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument and return the land to private ownership.

In a two-page letter dated Feb. 14, the Republican governor asks Trump to enact the reversal “before economic damage occurs and traditional recreational pursuits are diminished.” The Bangor Daily News obtained a copy of the letter Wednesday, and it was verified by LePage spokesman Peter Steele. Steele declined to comment further.

Calling President Barack Obama’s executive order creating the monument “a grave injustice … to the people and our forest economy,” LePage attached a letter from April 22, 2016, detailing his objections to the order.

It is unclear whether a president can undo an executive order creating a monument. Several attorneys general dating back to President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s have issued opinions that presidents lack the authority to abolish national monuments, according to the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service.

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Read more: https://bangordailynews.com/2017/02/22/outdoors/lepage-to-trump-rescind-north-woods-national-monument/

[Historic NY]

1. Wasn't the majority of the land donated?????

[jpak]

2. All of it - and with a $40 million endowment

And with a new $5 million investment nearby...

[jberryhill]

3. Correct

These folks are all about owner's rights, unless the owner does something they don't like.

[mobeau69]

4. If the KGOP had their way

all National Parks and Monuments would be sold off to the highest bidder.

[Achilleaze]

6. that is part of the KGOP plan

so that a few plutocrats can profit while America loses.

[Botany]

5. The owner gave the land to the Fed. Government

No need to keep land like that property so that it will bring in millions of dollars every year
to the local economy ...... God I hate thoe assholes.

[angrychair]

7. Bullshit

How does an asshole that barely got 30% of the vote in his low population state act as if he has a mandate from that state's people...to be a racist asshole?

It would appear that neither a president nor congress has an express right to undo a national moment. Especially in this case. The land was donated by the owner for this express purpose and it cannot legally be used for any other and it came with an endowment so it creates no budget item in appropriations.

Please people of Maine send this asshole packing next election.

[DK504]

8. How does this turd keep his job.

Everyone hates him, who votes for this POS?

[Bayard]

9. don't see how they can do this

Sit down and shut up. That's a beautiful pic, btw