Just look back at how they intimidated George Herbert Walker Bush! They had more fun writing stories to make him embarrassed and supporting all the "romantic activists" escapades. They did a huge amount of it to Pete Wilson and his Resources Agency head, Dougie Wheeler who fancied himself an EnvironMentalCase.
These guys all know where the votes and the money are!!! It's in the dang blue zones with all the blue nosed citified slickers who can only fanticize about living in the rural areas and living off the land by actually caring for it!
They come out here for a few weekends and one vacation per year and ski, raft, kayak, taste some wine, check out a dude ranch, check out the historical stuff, do a little crafting and antiquing... then go back to their traffic choked, crime riddled metro-money makeing enterprise and send their tax deductible contributions to THE NATURE CONSERVANCY, THE AMERICAN RIVER CONSERVANCY, THE SIERRA CLUB, FRIENDS OF THE RIVER, DUCKS UNLIMITED, THE GREAT VALLEY CENTER, THE SIERRA NEVADA ALLIANCE, etc., etc., etc., ad nauseum, ad infinitium...
You know what happens to that money. They refer to it in their grant writing applications to the Feds as a "strong show of support for public money to be used in a PUBLIC/PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP" between them and the totally infiltrated Federal/State Agency that is "Empire Building" at full TILT by "Rural Cleansing!!!"
I have thought about this for a day and must admit I have never thought of it in those terms. I always think the best of folks, but in this case, the reverse in in order.