The great move “Johnny Dangerously” is an all-time classic.

One of my favorite lines in that 1984 Michael Keaton flick came from a newspaper headline shown in the move. The headline read: “Roman Moroni Deported To Sweden. Says He’s Not From There.”

That is what I thought when I saw a bunch of knuckleheads (and some bots) tell my friend Nick Gevock to “go back to California.” They told him that because Nick had the audacity to speak up and say that the public had the right to have a seat at the table when U.S. Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum came to town to meet with government, Montana Tech and mining officials at Montana Tech.

Nick is from Iowa, and he has long lived in the Treasure State. He worked as a reporter at The Bozeman Daily Chronicle and Montana Standard before changing courses to be a news maker instead of a news breaker.

The fact that Nick is an advocate for the Sierra Club is probably what set off some of those knuckleheads and bots. Nobody likes environmental groups. That is, until those groups are speaking out for you.

Nick had a good point. We need a seat at the table when important decisions are made. That is how democracy works. Nick was speaking out against the lack of transparency that can be dangerous.

He also was not speaking out against mining. He just said that in Butte we are well aware of what unchecked mining can do to a community.

No matter, dismissing someone’s opinion because you think they are from a state certain doesn’t make any sense. A good argument should never be afraid of opposition or some questions.

That is all Nick was offering.

So, yesterday I sat down with Nick for a fun conversation about what he does for the Sierra Club and why you should want him to at least be involved in the conversation.

Listen in to hear that he is not from California. Not that there’s anything wrong with being from California. Nick is from Eastern Iowa, and lives, works and plays in and around Butte.

Listen in to hear that Nick is concerned for sportsmen because that is what he is. Listen to hear how he cares about a clean environment, but is not the kind of radical that is out spiking trees.

Listen in to see that Nick is one of the good guys.

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