{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://boebert.house.gov/media/press-releases/rep-boebert-condemns-bidens-nomination-domestic-terrorist-and-again-calls", "Rep. Boebert Condemns Biden\u2019s Nomination of Domestic Terrorist and Again Calls on Senators Bennet and Hickenlooper to Stand up for Colorado", "2021-07-29", "2021", "2021-07", "Republican", "House", "CO", "Lauren Boebert", "B000825", "boebert.house.gov", "boebert", "https://boebert.house.gov/media/press-releases", "scraper", "Rep. Lauren Boebert joined House Committee on Natural Resources Ranking Member Bruce Westerman, Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy, Republican Whip Steve Scalise, and 71 additional members of Congress in a letter condemning Biden\u2019s nomination of an eco-terrorist extremist to lead the Bureau of Land Management and asking for her nomination to be withdrawn.\n\nRep. Lauren Boebert stated: \u201cTracy Stone-Manning is a terrorist and her terrorist boobytraps still threaten the lives of foresters and firefighters to this day. She has never assisted investigators in locating or removing the 500 pounds of tree spikes she helped plant in the Clearwater National Forest. She is such a disaster that a Biden White House official called her nomination \u2018a massive vetting failure\u2019 and Obama\u2019s former director of the Bureau of Land Management condemned her nomination. Stone-Manning\u2019s extremist anti-government, pro-population control, anti-law enforcement, pro-wildfire, tree-worshipping, anti-farmer, and anti-responsible energy views are more than enough to disqualify any nominee, but her involvement in an eco-terrorist tree spiking attack\u2014threatening the lives of wildland firefighters, loggers, and mill workers\u2014is beyond the pale. More information and lies continue to come out by the day about Stone-Manning\u2019s extremist activities. She belongs in federal prison, not in the director\u2019s office of a federal agency. If the Biden regime is serious about rooting out domestic terrorism, it needs to start with pulling Stone-Manning\u2019s nomination. If Colorado Senators Bennet and Hickenlooper decide to vote for Stone-Manning again anyway, they should at least ensure that Colorado scores a win by securing a commitment from the Biden administration to keep the Bureau of Land Management headquarters in Grand Junction prior to casting cloture and final confirmation votes in her favor.\u201d\n\nBackground:\n\nTracy Stone-Manning is a radicalized environmental terrorist whose repugnant philosophy includes tenets such as: \u201cwe must breed fewer consuming humans,\u201d children are \u201cenvironmental hazard[s],\u201d ranchers are \u201cdestroying the West,\u201d and \u201cthe solution to houses [threatened by wildfires] is to let them burn.\u201d Her hateful language spilled over into terrorism when she became involved in a tree-spiking attack threatening the lives of wildland firefighters, foresters, and mill workers in Idaho.\n\nTree spiking is an eco-terrorist tactic in which extremists hide long metal spikes in tree trunks so that they explode upon impact with a chainsaw or sawmill blade. The Washington Post describes tree spiking as \u201camong the most vicious of [ecoterrorist] strategies.\u201d If a wildland firefighter\u2019s chainsaw hits a tree spike while clearing a fireline, it explodes like a grenade and the shrapnel can maim or kill him or her. Stone-Manning\u2019s actions were not petty vandalism\u2014her letter explicitly states that the spikes are designed to \u201cinjure\u201d workers, and it shows her intent that \u201ca lot of people could get hurt\u201d if the forest was ever logged. Stone-Manning literally planned attacks where 500 pounds of 8-to-10-inch tree spikes were jammed into trees designated for harvest. Her cold-blooded actions demonstrate a murderous resolve to kill and a foreknowledge that the tree spiking attack she was involved in threatened the lives of foresters and firefighters.\n\nLumber mill worker George Alexander experienced the tragic consequences of tree spiking in 1987 while he was splitting logs and a tree spike caused his saw to explode\u2014slashing his face from eye to chin, breaking his teeth, and cutting his jaw in half. Tree spiking is a deadly matter, but environmental extremist groups like Earth First!\u2014which Stone-Manning was involved in\u2014call it \u201cfun.\u201d Stone-Manning should ask Mr. Alexander if he thinks tree spiking is harmless fun.\n\nRep. Boebert has stood strong in condemning Biden\u2019s nomination of Stone-Manning to be the director of the Bureau of Land Management. Rep. Boebert stated, \u201cAmerica does not negotiate with terrorists, and it certainly shouldn\u2019t appoint one to lead a federal agency.\u201d\n\nInterior Secretary Deb Haaland recognizes the severity of Stone-Manning\u2019s terrorist involvement, and she distanced herself on Tuesday, saying \u201cshe is the President\u2019s nominee\u2026I didn\u2019t nominate her.\u201d\n\nStone-Manning is a terrorist, and she also committed a felony in perjuring herself to Congress when she lied twice to the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. The first lie was that she denied ever being investigated by U.S. Special Agents, and the second lie was that she denied participating in tree spiking.\n\nRetired Special Agent Michael Merkley was the lead investigator into the Clearwater National Forest tree spiking, and he describes Stone-Manning as \u201cextremely difficult to work with; in fact, she was the nastiest of the suspects. She was vulgar, antagonistic, and extremely anti-government. She was very uncooperative\u2026\u201d Stone-Manning has misrepresented her role in the tree spiking incident, claiming to be merely an innocent bystander. Special Agent Merkely made clear that this is not the case and that \u201cStone-Manning\u2026planned the tree spiking\u201d from the beginning. She \u201conly came forward [4 years later]\u2026after her attorney struck the immunity deal\u2026at no time did she come forward of her own volition.\u201d\n\nOn Tuesday, all Senate Democrats\u2014including Colorado\u2019s Senators Hickenlooper and Bennet\u2014voted to discharge Stone-Manning\u2019s nomination to the Senate floor. While Stone-Manning should never hold office due to her egregiously disqualifying involvement in terrorism, if Bennet and Hickenlooper are going to vote for her anyways, Colorado should at least score a victory from it.\n\nColorado Reps. Lauren Boebert, Ken Buck, and Doug Lamborn called on Senators Hickenlooper and Bennet to refuse to advance Stone-Manning\u2019s nomination until they secure a commitment from the Biden administration to keep the Bureau of Land Management headquarters in Grand Junction in order to retain Western stakeholders\u2019 voices in the decisions that impact their daily lives. If the junior senator from Michigan was able to hold up eight Department of Defense nominations to secure a victory for his state, Colorado should expect nothing less of its senators. Senators Bennet and Hickenlooper share Rep. Boebert\u2019s bipartisan commitment to ensuring the headquarters remain in Grand Junction and taking this simple procedural step would put action to their words. 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