The Bureau of Land Management this week recalled senior leaders stationed in their Grand Junction headquarters back to the Beltway, and Colorado’s U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet never lifted a finger to stop them.
Colorado Politics obtained the leadership chart of who’s departing the state.
The bureau shutdown is part of BLM Director and former ecoterrorist Tracy Stone-Manning and the Biden administration’s efforts to undo everything good former President Trump did for Colorado and the West —like locating land managers near the actual land they manage.
This is a complete failure by @SenatorBennet and @Hickenlooper.
Their party has the Senate, the House, the White House and yet they haven’t been able to keep the Bureau of Land Management in Colorado or accomplish anything else for Coloradans.
We deserve better! #copolitics https://t.co/AnGEYDGiUF
— The Colorado GOP (@cologop) December 15, 2021
Bennet’s too busy wringing his hands over Biden’s Build Back Broke plan, which is about to go down in flames in the Senate along with Bennet’s reelection talking points.
U.S. Sen. John Hickenlooper is probably drinking beer somewhere.
Colorado Politics reports that BLM employees resisted the move, which came with a 30% paycut because the cost of living in Grand Junction was so much lower than the D.C. area.
They also repeated claims that made it appear Grand Junction was too awful a town for Black people to live, because half of the agency’s Black employees chose to retire or transfer rather than move here.
As we’ve reported, the real BLM scandal is that out of 9,000 employees, only 312 were Black.
Neither Bennet nor Hickenlooper seem to care about that, either.