A Nevada rancher whose dispute with the US Bureau of Land Management drew national attention is no longer a Republican.
Cliven Bundy has switched his affiliation to the Independent American Party.
Bundy and his supporters, some of them armed militia members, thwarted a BLM roundup of his cattle nearBunkerville in April.
The BLM says he owes more than $1 million in grazing fees and penalties for trespassing without a permit over 20 years, but he refuses to acknowledge federal authority on public lands. . .