Nunes banned local newspaper from public event

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BY MCCLATCHY CALIFORNIA OPINION EDITORS
FEBRUARY 19, 2020 01:17 PM

Rep. Devin Nunes’ war against the free press reached a new low on Tuesday when he barred The Fresno Bee from covering a major water forum in Tulare.

The forum covered matters of crucial public interest. The chief executive officer of Friant Water Authority, a public agency, moderated the event. David Bernhardt, secretary of the U.S. Department of the Interior, also attended ...

“The Fresno Bee learned at 10 a.m. Tuesday that its reporters would not be allowed to cover the event, after receiving tickets .. after registering for it ... " ...

It’s been years since Nunes has had the courage to face his constituents in a town hall.

... the water forum was not a private party or a fundraiser. It was a public interest event featuring public officials. Nunes’ decision to bar the region’s biggest newspaper from attending represents a new strategy in his war against the free press. It also ensured that his constituents would be unable to read about the forum in the region’s largest newspaper ...

https://www.sacbee.com/opinion/editorials/article240433786.html

[Faux pas]

1. That just proves

what a chicken shit asshole he is.

[Tanuki]

2. How is this not an actionable violation of the 1st Amendment?

[11 Bravo]

4. When this was pointed out to him, Nunes was udderly unmoooooooved.

[crickets]

9. +1

[Brother Buzz]

10. Brown Act, Baby!

Brown Act, located at California Government Code 54950 et seq., is an act of the California State Legislature, authored by Assemblymember Ralph M. Brown and passed in 1953, that guarantees the public's right to attend and participate in meetings of local legislative bodies

[Leghorn21]

3. Dev is askeered of that BEE

Run away, liddle’ Devin, RUN AWAY!!!

LOOOOOOSER

[abqtommy]

5. I hear that The Cow didn't get an invitation either...

[SWBTATTReg]

6. Coward. As usual. His time will come, one day, when he's made to answer for his clearly...

very biased actions on behalf of the idiot in the WH (while ignoring his own district, his own constituents, and his fellow house representatives, in their duty to restrain the out of control idiot in the WH.

[pwb]

7. The public will be pissed for this Nuuuuuuuunes.

Your toast you sweaty little punk. Sue me?

[Kid Berwyn]

8. Devin Nunes puts the "cow" in "coward."

And the other way around, moo.