People Do Figure It Out: The Harney County Edition

If Harney County, Oregon rings a bell, it’s because that where radical ammosexualists led by Ammon Bundy attempted to establish a Cowliphate on a nature reserve (because FREEDOM! Or something). Despite the recent invasion, the citizens of Harney County seem far more sensible than the ammosexualists (boldface mine):

Voters in rural Harney County, Oregon, overwhelmingly rejected the ideology of right-wing militia members who made the local wildlife refuge famous with their ill-fated occupation earlier this year. Candidates sympathetic to Ammon Bundy and his fellow “patriots” were overwhelmingly voted down in Tuesday’s election, according to Oregon Public Broadcasting….

Harney County, by contrast, saw 72 percent of eligible voters cast ballots — the highest rate of voter participation in the state.

…Tom Schaefer, a candidate running for county judge who invoked the militia’s pet issue in his stump speeches — saying things like, “I think we need to push back with every opportunity and every bit of leverage that we have against these federal agencies that are strangling us” — took third place in his race for county judge.

The winner of that race, former County Commissioner Pete Runnels, opposed the occupation. (The Pacific Patriot Network, an organization that supported the militia, called for Runnels’ resignation back in January.)

The gubernatorial candidate who played footsie with the ammosexualists came in third in Harney County.

People do figure this stuff out.

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2 Responses to People Do Figure It Out: The Harney County Edition

  1. Bayesian Bouffant, FCD says:

    Yay.

  2. anthrosciguy says:

    Familiarity breeds contempt. In this case the citizens of Harney county are faced with a bill for over a half a million dollars as a result of these clowns’ actions. So they were essentially offered a chance to incur yet more costs for idiocy and they declined.

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