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struggle4progress

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Tue Jan 5, 2016, 10:25 PM Jan 2016

GOP candidates weigh in on Oregon standoff

01/04/16 04:11 PM
By Steve Benen

... one of John Kasich’s (R) top aides turned to social media to argue, “I know a good federal compound for Bundy and his gang: a U.S. penitentiary.” The Ohio governor’s GOP rivals, however, said literally nothing ...

Today, that started to change ... Marco Rubio .. endors<ed> the idea that there’s too much federal land ownership out West, but that the militia members are going too far ...

Cruz would probably prefer we forget, but in April 2014, when the armed standoff between Bundy and federal officials first began in Nevada, the senator actually expressed sympathy for Bundy and his militant allies, and condemned President Obama ...


http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/gop-candidates-weigh-oregon-standoff

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