President Biden’s nomination of Tracy Stone-Manning to become the director of the Bureau of Land Management has raised the ire and indignation of our Sen. Mike Lee and Sen. John Barrasso of Wyoming. Cries of “unfit” and “reprehensible behavior” are included in Sen. Lee’s condemnation of Stone-Manning.
Time will tell whether the senate deems Stone-Manning “fit” for service as the BLM director. Meanwhile, let’s recall Lee’s dismissal in 2015 of a former candidate for the office of president of the United States. As late as October of 2016, Lee, in a taped video statement, called on the former president to withdraw from the race. Just four short years later, Lee was comparing the former president to “Captain Moroni,” a hero of The Book of Mormon.
The hypocrisy of throwing around terms like “unfit” and “reprehensible behavior” seems to be a matter of political expediency for our Sen. Lee. Yes, let’s definitely have a standard for judging the “fitness” of our public officials, but let’s also make it uniform and applicable regardless of the politics of the candidate in question.
Mark E. Hurst, St. George