aniela.butler@mail.house.gov
To Mr. McClintock,
Please note that last week’s Natural Resources committee meeting was an example of regulatory capture of an agency – the Bureau of Land Management. Most of the information provided to the committee was not scientifically supported and not credible – including the population numbers of the public’s wild horses and wild burros on the range and in holding facilities.
The recent wild horse capture in Oregon and plans for sterilization procedures are politically and monetarily motivated. This is not in keeping with the law or the wishes of the American people who own the land and who own the wild horses and wild burros – it is biased for special “favored” interest groups. This is illegal and called “Regulatory Capture”.
This political corruption of a regulatory agency, created to act in the public interest, advances commercial or special interest groups that it is charged with regulating. Regulatory capture is government failure allowing firms to be injurious to the public (e.g., producing negative externalities). The agencies are called “captured agencies”.
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and associates continue to take away land that is legally set aside for wild horses and wild burros. Special interest groups see wild horses and wild burros as unfavorable to any financial stakeholders, i.e. livestock permittees, mining and energy corporations, large lobbying trophy hunting “clubs” and many more with a financial interest. This is unacceptable, illegal and the American citizens including me are disgusted at the “sell-out” of our lands and resources by the agency that is responsible to protect them … the Bureau of Land Management.
Each of the committee members and speakers must admit to the public their political and financial connections to the agencies and private/corporate benefactors of the elimination of the wild horses and wild burros and the selling leasing of our public lands and resources. This is a conflict of interest! Their connection to regulatory capture must require the remove of all committee members and speakers who have this conflict of interest.
Receipt requested.
Sincerely,