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struggle4progress

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Wed Feb 24, 2016, 01:28 AM Feb 2016

$3.3 million and counting: The cost of the Malheur occupation

By Luke Hammill | The Oregonian/OregonLive
on February 23, 2016 at 3:00 PM, updated February 23, 2016 at 5:34 PM

The .. occupation of .. Malheur .. cost taxpayers at least $3.3 million to cover the .. police response, a week of shuttered schools and a long list of supplies ranging from food to flashlight batteries, according to an Oregonian/OregonLive analysis ... The total will certainly grow. The amount doesn't include any figures from the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service ... The agency can only now begin to assess the damage .. interlopers caused after they ... used backhoes, government trucks and computers and left piles of garbage and feces in their wake ...

http://www.oregonlive.com/oregon-standoff/2016/02/33_million_and_counting_the_co.html

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$3.3 million and counting: The cost of the Malheur occupation (Original Post) struggle4progress Feb 2016 OP
Tack that onto their prison sentence tab. ffr Feb 2016 #1

ffr

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1. Tack that onto their prison sentence tab.
Wed Feb 24, 2016, 01:35 AM
Feb 2016

I think their ranch should fetch some of that back after it's sold at auction, along with their trucks, guns, ammo, and whatever else that stupid family had of value.

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