Tony Lesperance: Team Player
“I have always believed in a team approach in management and problem solving.”
Quote from fist-fighting, anti-government extremist Tony Lesperance, new head of the Nevada Department of Agriculture, in a press release sent out on Friday, March 14th. I would link to it, but, unfortunately, the last press release on the NDA website is the announcement [...]
Nevada Governor Gibbons Empowers an Extremist
I thought David Neiwert might be interested in Governor Jim Gibbons’ appointment of Tony Lesperance to head the Department of Agriculture. While for us, Lesperance’s appointment is just another in a list of Gibbons’ bone-headed appointments, to Neiwert, it signifies a departure from the normal pattern of the Republican empowerment of the far right. [...]
Nevada and Common-sense Environmentalism
I’ve been thinking about since yesterday’s post on Dean Heller’s short-sighted idea of environmental policy. Orcinus has two great posts on “common-sense environmentalism,” or the importance of urban environmentalists and rural residents working together on environmental campaigns. Sarah Robinson writes about Mono Lake and Dave Neiwert writes about protecting old-growth forest in the Northwest. [...]
