There is plenty of proof for the latter part of that statement, some of it research done by Eureka County's Public Lands Director, John Balliette, himself a former Forest Service bureaucrat. Balliette's detailed documentation of financial advantages to the state in managing its own public lands has, however, been largely ignored or rejected by the state administration. And therein is featured yet another major problem for the rebellion this time. Both Governor Bob Miller and State Attorney General Frankie Sue Del Papa are Democrats with close and ambitious ties to the Clinton administration. Miller has vetoed anti-federal legislation before, and Del Papa has opening sided with the federal government in declaring state claims to federal land to be unconstitutional.
Federal officials can perhaps expect to be criticized by action in the state legislature.
But the legislature, still on an agrarian citizen-lawmaker schedule, only meets every two years. Between sessions, the state's business is up to its full-time administrators. Russo, the film producer with Oscars and Emmys and stars like Bette Midler and Eddie Murphy in his past, told the workshop he is giving up his film career to run for Governor of Nevada. But not a word was printed or said about it in the major media of Reno or Las Vegas. People in Connecticut don't know about the rebellion.