On Saturday, rebel activist Ammon Bandy appeared in his first video announcing his campaign to become Governor of Idaho.

“I’m running for governor because I’m sick and tired of all this political trash like you,” Bandy said in a nearly three-minute video on his campaign website. Told. “I’m sick of depriving us of our freedom, and I’m sick of the corruption that’s prevailing in our state government.”

Bandy said he wanted to protect Idaho from “Joe Biden and the Deep State people who rule him.” They “because they are trying to deprive and even violate our gun rights, religious freedom, custody, etc.” Constitution in an unimaginable way — more than they have already done. “

Last month, Bandy submitted a document to the office of Secretary of State Idaho and ran for Republican in the 2022 Governor’s primary. Current Idaho Governor Brad Little, Lieutenant Janice McGeachin, and four other Republicans (Jeff Cotton, Edward Humphreys, Lisa Marie, and Cody Usabel) are also needed to run for governor. I submitted the campaign document.

In the video, Bandy advertises his family’s long-standing battle with the federal government over government land use.

“We can’t afford the federal government to have state leadership to bully us or roam around us, and the unfair fight when the federal government illegally attacks people. — Believe me. I know as my family. I experienced this directly when it was illegally attacked by federal authorities at our family ranch in Nevada in 2014. ” Bandy said. .. “But we didn’t retreat, and thankfully we fought federal tyranny to protect our land and our rights, so like-minded patriotism across the country. Stood with us. “

Bandy received international attention in 2016 when he led a group of armed activists under the occupation of the Maroo National Wildlife Sanctuary to protest the federal control of public lands. He was finally arrested and subsequently acquitted all federal charges in that case.

Bandy currently has two misdemeanor criminal trespasses pending against him in Idaho, and he represents both. The incident began in August last year during a protest against coronavirus restrictions at the Idaho State Capitol. He pleaded not guilty in one case and has not yet entered a plea in the second case.