The road to recovery in Harney County (OR)
Updated 2 hrs ago
... residents of the county are scheduled to vote today on a referendum to recall County Judge Steve Grasty, who for the past 18 years has been the county's top administrative official. Backers of the recall effort point to Grasty's refusal to allow Bundy from holding a public meeting in a county building. Bundy apparently wanted to use the public setting to explain his side of the takeover.
Grasty said that the request didn't fit with the county's policy on public safety.
But the request was ludicrous on its face, and Grasty was completely right to turn it down, for a couple of additional reasons: First and foremost, Bundy and his followers were in the middle of an illegal occupation at a federal wildlife refuge at the time they made a request ...
It would be a shame if Harney County voters did anything but give Grasty a big vote of confidence for how he and other county leaders worked, in the most difficult of circumstances, to hold their county together and uphold the rule of law.
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