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[Switch]

http://www.change.or...=autopublishCPC member Bennie set this up. Nice job Bennie.Sign the petition and help oppose SB 1221

[Bennie]

Every time some one signs this it automatically sends a e-mail letter to the 10 Senators who should be able to stop this. That is how I set it up. Hope it works.

[Braz]

Nice going Bennie.

[OrneryOlMofo357]

Thanks for putting that together Bennie. I copied the link and shared it on 2 other hunting forums as well.

[Jeff213]

Signed. I don't hunt bears or bobcats but I hate when they make stupid laws and take away our rights. I also see this going in the direction of banning all dogs from hunting and I want to train my dog to hunt small game.

[OrneryOlMofo357]

On one of the other sites, We have had Guys from the East, Mid West, and even British Columbia that said they have signed. Hopefully the message will get across to the Senate that folks are upset.

[Switch]

Thanks for adding that over on PM. We're starting to see the recent signers from outside of CA. Great to have support from across the nation.

[Bennie]

Thanks for signing and spreading the petition.

[OrneryOlMofo357]

273 signatures and growing. I like it!

[OrneryOlMofo357]

Lets keep this thing going! Pass it on in your E Mails!

[Bennie]

Thanks every one 379 and growing. That is a lot of e-mails sent to Senators.

[OrneryOlMofo357]

Hopefully they will carry some weight. I hope that the Dog Hunters can keep hunting.

[Bennie]

Bump to keep this going. 550 signatures and still growing. The Senators are starting to contact me now. So I know it is getting to them. I think all of us who hunt should also send them personal emails.

[Rimrock]

I have phoned, sent e-mails and personal letters.

[Bennie]

Thanks The more pressure we put on them the better off our future will be here in CA for a while. They will never give up trying to take away our rights. I will never give up fighting for them.

[Thumper Dunker]

Great job.

[OrneryOlMofo357]

A Bit of good news. I contacted Jim Champion. owner of Fins%Fur and he posted the pettition on his website. Hopefully the signatures keep growing!http://forum.finsand...81523#msg181523

[Bennie]

Thanks we need all the help we can get on this one. It is up to 647 signatures now, and I am glad it is growing. But I know there is a lot more people than that, that hunt in CA.

[Bennie]

Another Bump to keep this thing getting signed. 1008 signatures now. Not a whole bunch, but better than doing nothing at all.

[StephLuvsHunting]

Signed! 1104 sigs. Thanks Bennie for making this.

[Bennie]

Thanks. I am glad to that many signatures, but sure thought it would be easier to get a bunch more.

[Bennie]

Well it is up to 1120 signatures now. Depressing to me. I really thought a lot more people would sign this especially after losing to prop 117 years ago. The real bad news is I talked to a guy last night and he said this thing is going to go through. He was at a big dinner with a bunch of DFG people and Politicians. Said it sounds like to him this has already been decided behind closed doors.

[Bennie]

Switch I just wanted to say Thankyou!

[Switch]

Bennie, let's keep it moving. Figure this, 1100 signatures is 11,000 emails the way you set up the petition. I've been visiting several sites and spreading the word. I know many are writing their own letters and sending them via email or fax. I've done the same a few times a week since we started. Also, for the last few weeks, WON has been really pushing the opposition, with a full page add and editorials. It's not over until it's over. Lots of problems with the bill as written.

[STPilot]

Done!!

[modoc squeek shooter]

Done

[Bennie]

Is Revenge the Right Method to Manage California Wildlife?A recent Los Angeles Times blog sheds some light on what is behind the attack on California hunters… retribution. Entitled, “Controversial cougar kill spawns proposed ban on hunting with dogs,” the story describes some of the motivation behind Senate Bill 1221, which would ban using hounds to hunt black bears and bobcats. Times reporter Patrick McGreevy wrote on March 26th, “Unable to get a Fish and Game official to resign for killing a mountain lion outside the state, two lawmakers on Monday introduced legislation that would prohibit the use of dogs to hunt bear and bobcat in California.”The Fish and Game official is Daniel Richards, president of the California Fish and Game Commission, who went on a mountain lion hunt in Idaho, where he successfully killed a cougar. Outraged anti-hunting groups, led by the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS), persuaded 40 legislators to call for Richards to resign over the hunt, which was completely legal in Idaho as it is in several other states. Hunting groups, however, rallied to his rescue, pouring calls, emails and letters in to the legislature, which finally abandoned its attempt to remove the commissioner in March. Now it would appear that the anti-hunting lobby and the politicians they work with want payback. And that payback is in the form of taking hunting rights away from California hunters. But is that any way to manage wildlife? California’s method of conserving wildlife is based on the North American Model of Wildlife Management, in which hunters and anglers pay through their license fees to fund professional biologists to set seasons, bag limits and methods of hunting. The system is deliberately set up to be separate from the partisan political squabbles that take place in the capitol. The real story of this bill sets a terrible precedent. It demonstrates why wildlife management should not be political. Natural resources, including wildlife, are too important to be pawns in the dirty pool that has become common place in politics today. Senate Bill 1221, was originally a bill that dealt with air quality issues. But since the deadline to introduce new proposals had already passed, anti-hunting legislators stripped out the original language and dropped in the section banning the use of hounds to hunt bears and bobcats. This move took place late in the process to prevent sportsmen from having time to rally supporters and explain that hunters are being paid back by anti-hunting legislators for having the audacity to defend the right of a fellow hunter to go hunting.

[ShooterJohn]

Unfortunately California is not run that way. The fees we pay for our licenses and tags do not go to the Department of Fish and Game to manage our wildlife. The money goes directly into the states general fund to be squandered by these same legislators who are now attempting to reduce our hunting rights. Is anyone really surprised about this turn of events? It's been happening little by little over the years. Legislators are just now bolder in the plans they have for hunters. These same legislators have made themselves more and more powerful over the years in what they can do without our say so.I'm moving this to the Big Game Forum so that the general public can see it and add support.

[Bennie]

Thankyou Shooter John!

[Bennie]

Well they won the first step of this. That is pretty bad for us. Here is some of what the NRA had to say about this Bill.SB 1221 is supported by the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) – a group that supports banning all hunting with or without dogs. Its President, Wayne Pacelle, has been quoted as saying: “We are going to use the ballot box and the democratic process to stop all hunting in the United States ... We will take it species by species until all hunting is stopped in California. Then we will take it state by state.”In 2003, HSUS unsuccessfully championed California Assembly Bill 342 that would have banned all hunting with hounds. They now seem to be taking a deceptive and incremental approach to accomplish the same goal via SB 1221. Don’t let anti-hunting extremists remove another traditional form of hunting.