Page C4 Wyoming Tribune Eagle Saturday, August 1, 2020

AROUND THE NATION MIAMI house that’s become ground Gun rights group draws zero in clashes between dem- 3 people charged onstrators and federal agents in massive Twitter came after the U.S. govern- ment began drawing down its hack, Bitcoin scam forces in the liberal city A British man, a Florida under a deal between Demo- anger of top lawmakers man and a Florida teen cratic Gov. Kate Brown and hacked the Twitter accounts the Trump administration. By Nick Reynolds of prominent politicians, ce- As agents from U.S. Cus- Casper Star-Tribune lebrities and technology mo- toms and Border Protection, Via Wyoming News Exchange guls to scam people around the U.S. Marshals Service and globe out of more than Immigration and Customs CASPER – A growing $100,000 in Bitcoin, authori- Enforcement pulled back, group of Wyoming lawmak- ties said Friday. troopers with the Oregon ers – including the vice Graham Ivan Clark, 17, was State Police took over. There president of the Senate – arrested Friday in Tampa, were no visible signs of any are coming after one of the where the Hillsborough State law enforcement presence state’s most aggressive Attorney’s Office will prose- outside the Mark O. Hatfield gun rights groups after it cute him as adult. He faces 30 Federal Courthouse, where a lodged efforts to discredit felony charges, according to a protest lasted into Friday. incumbent Republican law- news release. Mason Shep- Leaders in Oregon are makers in a number of vul- pard, 19, of Bognor Regis, pushing for a raft of measures nerable districts ahead of U.K., and Nima Fazeli, 22, of that would address systemic next month’s Republican Orlando, were charged in racism in everything from primary. California federal court. policing to housing. Those The group, Wyoming Gun In one of the most high-pro- proposals could be fast- Owners, has been a consis- file security breaches in re- tracked for consideration in a tent presence in Wyoming’s cent years, hackers sent out special legislative session politics, presenting itself to bogus tweets on July 15 from later this summer. residents as an uncompro- the accounts of Barack mising and unapologetically Obama, Joe Biden, Mike WASHINGTON aggressive proponent for Sen. , R-Cheyenne, speaks during a protest to encourage state leaders to re- Bloomberg and a number of the Second Amendment in open the Wyoming economy April 24 outside the Wyoming State Capitol in downtown Chey- tech billionaires including Justice Ruth Bader Cheyenne. enne. Michael Cummo/Wyoming Tribune Eagle Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, Mi- Ginsburg released Two weeks ago, however, crosoft co-founder Bill Gates the organization had fo- opponent, Nina Webber. years now. April 2017. “You need and and Tesla CEO Elon Musk. from hospital cused on pitting its often ag- “But she’s quickly made a Founded by now-Sen. An- you deserve the truth: Aaron Celebrities Kanye West and Justice Ruth Bader Gins- gressive campaign tactics name for herself as a do- thony Bouchard in 2010, Dorr is a scam artist, a liar, his wife, Kim Kardashian and extensive digital opera- nothing moderate who the Wyoming Gun Owners has and he is doing Iowans no burg has been discharged West, were also hacked. from a hospital in New York tion against out-of-favor leadership team can always played an outsize role in the services and no favors.” The tweets offered to send politicians. count on to oppose any gun state’s politics for a number As the organization’s at- City and has returned home, $2,000 for every $1,000 sent the Supreme Court said Established lawmakers bills that come along, and to of years. While most of its in- tacks against incumbent to an anonymous Bitcoin like Cheyenne Sen. Tara be a safe leadership vote.” frastructure is based out of lawmakers in Wyoming Friday. address. The court said Ginsburg, Nethercott and Kemmerer Newsome has consistently state, the organization main- have begun to escalate, a “There is a false belief Rep. have declined to fill out the orga- tains the veneer of a high- growing number of conser- 87, is doing well, two days within the criminal hacker after undergoing a minimally come under Wyoming Gun nization’s candidate survey powered Wyoming lobbying vatives have begun lobbing community that attacks like Owners’ microscope this and voted last year against a organization, with an instate their own attempts to dis- invasive procedure on the Twitter hack can be per- Wednesday to “revise a bile summer, even with Nether- bill proposing to ban gunfree field coordinator, a mailing credit the organization, petrated anonymously and cott running unopposed in zones in places like the Uni- list of hundreds of individu- highlighting the flow of cash duct stent” at Memorial without consequence,” U.S. Sloan Kettering Cancer Cen- her primary this year. Mi- versity of Wyoming campus. als and a number of legisla- seen in other states to the Attorney David L. Anderson chael Von Flatern – a moder- But she has hardly mount- tive victories to its credit, brothers’ own consulting ter. The stent had originally for the Northern District of been placed last August, ate Republican senator from ed an opposition against including the passage of the firm. California said in a news re- Gillette – has received the one’s right to bear arms. state’s controversial stand “They’re not here for Sec- when Ginsburg was treated lease. “Today’s charging an- for a cancerous tumor on her most attacks over the years, In the last session alone, your ground bill in 2018 and ond Amendment rights,” nouncement demonstrates dubbed the organization’s Newsome voted for a bill to a massive opposition cam- Driskill said. “They’re here pancreas. that the elation of nefarious The procedure is common “Biggest Enemy to Gun ban gun buyback programs, paign that aided in the pull- to stir controversy and raise hacking into a secure envi- Owners in Wyoming” and voted in support of legisla- ing of a piece of mental money.” and was done to minimize the ronment for fun or profit will risk of future infection, ac- regularly disparaged out- tion to protect those who health reporting legislation While pressure on Wyo- be short-lived.” side of campaign season. keep firearms in their vehi- prior to the 2020 session. ming Gun Owners has been cording to her doctors, the The organization has also cles at the workplace and While the on-the-ground mounting, the organization court said in a statement. taken strides to actively in- even backed legislation to following of the organization itself is looking to ramp up its SAN DIEGO The procedure follows fluence legislative races protect law enforcement of- is very real, Dorr – and his aggressive campaigns in the another one earlier this across the state by running ficers who refuse to comply family – have come under in- coming weeks. In a fundrais- Sunken Marine month at Johns Hopkins Hos- videos attacking the voting with federal laws seen as in creasing scrutiny over the ing email July 15, the organi- vehicle deep under pital in Baltimore to clean out records of legislators facing conflict with one’s Second last several years for run- zation said it hoped to raise the stent. Ginsburg had gone challenges from candidates Amendment rights. ning a network of right-wing more than $52,000 to target sea, impedes search to the hospital after experi- it endorses. Even Devils Tower Sen. Facebook pages and gun 16 races around the state A military seafaring as- encing fever and chills and Rep. Dan Kirkbride, R- , the vice rights organizations in states while defending favored sault vehicle that sank off the was treated for a possible Chugwater, has attracted president of the Senate, has such as Minnesota, Iowa and candidates in vulnerable coast of Southern California infection. the ire of the organization as come under fire from the or- Missouri that critics say in- seats this summer, includ- is under hundreds feet of Ginsburg, the oldest justice he faces off against the Wyo- ganization in recent weeks, tend only to stoke fear and ing Bouchard and Rep. Dan water, beyond the reach of on the nine-member court, ming Gun Owners-backed labeled by Wyoming Gun anger in an effort to elicit do- Laursen, R-Powell. divers and complicating res- announced on July 17 that , while Owners as a “Republican in nations to enrich the family. “WYGO has released mul- cue efforts for eight missing she is receiving chemothera- Cheyenne Republican Sen. Name Only” and a “swamp In April, national news or- tiple ads in this election troops, officials said Friday. py for a recurrence of cancer. was recently tar- monster” for speaking out ganizations like NBC News cycle exposing notorious Still the Marine Corps com- geted by the organization in against the organization and and the Washington Post gun grabbing Republicans mandant, Gen. David Berger, WEST HARWICH, her primary race against its tactics despite, in his own tied the Dorr family to a like said the search was continu- Dan Young. words, being among the number of anti-quarantine and that have ing while he was suspending MASS. Incumbents in highly most Second Amendment- protests in cities around the been seen by tens of thou- waterborne operations of all Court overturns competitive districts like friendly legislators in United States, including sands of gun owners,” Dorr of its more than 800 amphibi- House District 24, currently Cheyenne. ones the brothers did not re- wrote in a text message. “We ous assault vehicles across marathon bomber’s occupied by Rep. Sandy “To call me an ultra-mod- side in. will be rolling out additional the branch until the cause of death sentence Newsome, have come under erate gun hater is probably a Earlier this year, The spots over the coming two the accident is determined. some of the most withering pretty good stretch for any- Daily Beast published an ex- weeks.” He said the move was out of A federal appeals court attacks from the organiza- body that knows me,” pose on the brothers’ Second But Driskill – who says he “an abundance of caution.” Friday threw out Dzhokhar tion, depicted by Wyoming Driskill said in an interview Amendment lobbying ef- supports much of what the Berger said the focus now Tsarnaev’s death sentence in Gun Owners as lapdogs of with the Star-Tribune. forts, quoting an Iowa state organization is fighting for – should be on the troops and the 2013 Boston Marathon legislative leadership while “They use tactics that re- lawmaker describing Aaron is tired of the negative cam- their families. One of the bombing, saying the judge they face intense competi- mind you of Washington, Dorr as a “scam artist” using paigning, and says that there eight Marines who were res- who oversaw the case did not tion from candidates on the D.C., or out-of-state politics. unfounded accusations in an are greater issues to judge cued died at a San Diego hos- adequately screen jurors for right wing of the Republican I’ve been proud that really effort to gin up donations for candidates by than a less- pital. Two Marines remained potential biases. Party who have pledged to dirty, nasty politics has not his organization. than-perfect record on the hospitalized with injuries but A three-judge panel of the back all of the organization’s come to Wyoming, and this “If you’re sending this guy Second Amendment or their were stable and out of the in- 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Ap- legislative priorities. is opening the door to that money, I’m asking you to refusal to fill out the group’s tensive care unit. peals ordered a new penalty- “She hasn’t been in office style of politics.” stop. … It is time for his scam candidate survey, which in- A total of 16 troops – 15 Ma- phase trial on whether the long,” Aaron Dorr, the orga- People in Cheyenne have to end,” Matt Windschitl, the cludes numerous questions rines and one Navy corpsman 27-year-old Tsarnaev should nization’s policy director, known the name of Wyo- Iowa state representative, asking lawmakers to spon- – were on board when the am- be executed for the attack said in a recent video oppos- ming Gun Owners – and its was quoted as saying on the sor or co-sponsor bills they phibious assault vehicle that killed three people and ing Newsome in favor of her leader, Dorr – for many floor of the Statehouse in favor. started taking in water Thurs- wounded more than 260 day evening as it was about a others. half mile from the shores of “But make no mistake: San Clemente Island. Dzhokhar will spend his re- PUBLIC NOTICE OF PROPOSED REMEDY They had just completed a maining days locked up in UNDER THE VOLUNTARY REMEDIATION PROGRAM (VRP) routine training exercise and prison, with the only matter remaining being whether he Pursuant to W.S. 35-11-1604, notice is hereby given that Preserve Historic Wyoming and the Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) were heading back to the Navy ship with more than a will die by execution,” Judge are proposing to enter into a Remedy Agreement under the VRP for The Bell Building located at 1605 Central Avenue, in downtown Cheyenne, O. Rogeriee Thompson wrote Wyoming. dozen other amphibious as- sault vehicles, said Lt. Gen. in the ruling, more than six The VRP was established to provide a safe and efficient method for cleaning up contaminated sites and putting them back into productive use. Joseph Osterman, the com- months after arguments Preserve Historic Wyoming entered The Bell Building into the VRP on June 12, 2019. The building was contaminated with Asbestos Contaminated manding general of the Ma- were heard in the case. Materials (ACM), Lead-Based Paint (LBP), and Mold. DEQ and Preserve Historic Wyoming proposed to remedy this contamination by abatement rine Expeditionary Force. An attorney for Tsarnaev and removal of ACM and mold, and removal and encapsulation of LBP. said they are grateful for the court’s “straightforward and In accordance with W.S. 35-11-1607, the requirements and remediation standards set forth in a remedy agreement are permanent, except for PORTLAND, ORE. fair decision: if the govern- certain situations where the agreement may be reopened or terminated. You can get a copy of the proposed remedy agreement by contacting ment wishes to put someone Carol Stark at 307-777-8759 or by writing to Carol Stark, 200 W. 17th St., Suite 100, Cheyenne, WY 82001. Portland protests to death, it must make its case DEQ and Preserve Historic Wyoming welcome comments on the proposed remedy. In accordance with W.S. 35-11-1604, this Notice will be relatively calm after to a fairly selected jury that is published for four consecutive weeks. A thirty (30) day public comment period will follow the last publication of this Notice. To comment on the U.S. drawdown provided all relevant infor- proposed remedy, you must do so in writing and address comments to: mation.” Luke J. Esch, Administrator, Solid and Hazardous Waste Division, DEQ, 200 West 17th Street, 2nd Floor, Cheyenne, Wyoming, 82002. DEQ will Leaders in Portland, Ore- “It is now up to the govern- respond to all comments in writing. gon, caught their breath and ment to determine whether to put the victims and Boston If twenty-five (25) people or an organization representing at least twenty-five (25) people request a hearing on the proposed remedy agreement, moved forward with cautious through a second trial, or to it will be held before the Administrator of the Solid and Hazardous Waste Division. If a hearing is scheduled, separate notice will be given. If you optimism Friday after the first nightly protest in weeks allow closure to this terrible would like to request a hearing, send your request to: Luke J. Esch, Administrator, Solid and Hazardous Waste Division, DEQ, at the address listed tragedy by permitting a sen- above. You may request a hearing as part of your written comments on the proposed remedy agreement. ended without any major confrontations, violence or tence of life without the possi- For further information, you may contact Carol Stark at 307-777-8759 with DEQ, or Robert Slaughter at 307-514-5400. arrests. bility of release,” David July 25, 2020 and August 1, 8, 15, 2020 The dramatic change in Patton said in an email. NO. 196700 tone outside a federal court- From wire reports