Alaska Rep. Don Young, gone hunting in Africa, misses subcommittee oil hearing

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http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2013/05/23/192109/alaska-rep-don-young-gone-hunting.html


Alaska Rep. Don Young, gone hunting in Africa, misses subcommittee oil hearing
By James Rosen McClatchy Washington Bureau
Posted on Thursday, May 23, 2013

WASHINGTON — When a key House of Representatives panel took up a bill this week that would require annual lease sales and streamline permitting in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska, home state Rep. Don Young missed the session.

He was on a big-game hunting safari in South Africa.

Aides said Thursday that Young, a 21st-term Fort Yukon Republican who is Alaska’s sole representative in the House, was hunting antelope when the Natural Resources Committee’s energy subcommittee met Wednesday to consider the legislation.

“He’s out of the country on a hunting trip that was scheduled over a year ago,” Mike Anderson, Young’s spokesman, told McClatchy.

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1. That sounds like the republican thing to do

Ignoring the important task they are responsible for while out destroying the world (rare wildlife).

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2. Shooting tame lions at a game farm

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3. Those Bubbas are just pleased as punch, aren't they?

Looks like the first photo was a bowhunting kill, which one day would have required a lot more skill and courage than a high-powered rifle.

Nowadays, with laser sights and his rifle-toting homies at his side, it's just a big badass show.

I can guarantee if he was alone on the plain with that bow and a hungry lion you'd never see Bubba run so fast.

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4. That's the sickest saddest shame in the world

These men are not men, they are pathetic.