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I think the fact that the company didn't get the same treatment as others under his watch is pretty much the textbook definition of evidence of preferential tre

• bmelton 11y ago
  We don't yet know that other companies weren't treated with similar incompetence. While I'm skeptical of Zimmerman's actions here, and am inclined to believe that there is apparent corruption, that does not mitigate that corruption has not been shown to be apparent... yet. It's neither impossible nor unlikely that there are dozens of other companies working with similarly expired licenses, or under similar states of neglect. (Note, this is speculative. I don't honestly even know if the forest service has any others extracting water from them, so I could be totally off-base, but as bad as this looks, it's worth reserving judgement for something less circumstantial.)
• maxerickson 11y ago
  It's not, there would need to be evidence that substantially similar permits did not receive the same treatment.