DesertBull

That letter sounds like someone from SFW wrote it and gave it to him to sign and distribute. Grow a pair Mr Weiers and tell SFW to cram it. They are going to lead you right to the unemployment line.

I would like to see how they come up with $25.4 million. Totally BOGUS. No doubt they included things like 5,000 people flying in, renting cars, booking hotels, eating $100 meals and playing 4 rounds of $150 golf. Not going to happen. We should have forwarded this to the Goldwater Institute when it first came out. Their specialty is preventing the privatization of public assets.

yes, he's still guilty of a CRIME. If the Rep committed a crime, then he should face the penalty. No question.

Exactly. As a famous politician once said....".that's fuzzy math"

I agree that the bill was handled very poorly from both the Rep and AZSFW but we've all made poor decisions in both our work and personal lives. I think the good he has done far outweighs this one mistake and should not be a death sentence to his career. He pulled the bill immediately so that should have some consideration too. We don't know what kind of BS line he was fed from the originators of the idea either. We certainly need to be careful because he could be replaced by someone in the Sierra Club or PETA.

5 years from now they would be saying, "hey, if we had 3 tags from each unit, we could REALLY help the herds." Once the foot is in the door, they will eventually kick it in. That's human nature.

me too

So if I own property on both sides of the I-10 I can gate it? Sweet.

tried to send you a PM but your inbox is full

If we moved Congress and the White House to Juarez, I bet things would change fast.

Thanks man! Appreciate the help.

No. I once posted a pic of myself in a leopard skin thong. The traffic collapsed the entire internet. Al Gore had to re-invent it. Jennifer Aniston viewed it like 20,000 times just herself.

I talked to a guy at NM game and Fish and he told me to bring at least one gas can because there are no services close by.

Me too, if you don't mind. I'm going in mid Feb to Unit 30. Thanks

What happened to this post? It's no longer in the thread.

yeah...let's run the guy out of office so he can be replaced with a gun grabbing, bunny hugging, wolf lovin, condor petting, granola muncher. Unbelievable.

So, the guys that formed this group are the same guys that buy the auction tags and now they want more tags to bid on. Who'd a thunk it?

In the PDF that Amanda posted, it says the following - All tags shall be exempt from the bag limit established by the commission except that the qualifying organization shall not issue more than one tag per species per year to an individual except for auction tags. So, not only are the tags exempt for the annual bag limit, one guy can buy all of them. - Disturbing Also disturbing is the fact that there is no mention that anyone associated with SFW; ie board member, employee, big money donor, etc, would be ineligible to win a raffle tag. Even the radio stations do that when they give away a frickin toaster or tickets to a Lady GAGA concert.

Preparation for more wolf releases is my guess.

I get emails from AZSFW all of the time regarding a variety different topics. I never received anything about this. It's obvious that it has been in the planning stages for awhile. I go to thier website and see no mention either. maybe its there but i cant find it Why the secrecy?

Just sent all my reps a big NO THANKS on HB 2072. Thanks for the link.

We know the real reason they want to close those roads. Bet ya Raúl M. Grijalva is the driving force behind this.

What is fishy is that when SFW or any of the other groups have a plan to get laws passed they usually come out right from the beginning of the process asking for public support. This time they wrote it up and got into the legislature and then sprung it on us just days before the process to get it passed starts in earnest. Wonder why?

These roads will be closed to border patrol also?

Let's do a little math. $20,000,000 raised would mean that 20,000 people would have to attend and each one of them would have to spend at least $1,000. That is 20,000 DIFFERENT (not total attendance as some would come on more than one day) people coming through the door and each one leaving the event $1,000 poorer. Typical political non-sense. The same people (politicians) tried to tell us the Coyotes would generate $50,000,000. When the numbers were actually broken down it came out about 1/3 of that and spread out of many many years. And someone else already brought this up, but the claim that less than one percent of the tags will be lost is a GROSS understatement. You're going to see the top tags, sheep, unit 9 elk, unit 13 deer etc, AUCTIONED off and the rest of the people will be trying to draw that coveted unit 17 javelina tag or unit 4 deer tag. Quit blowing smoke. You'll have a much easier time selling this idea if you speak the truth instead of trying to skew it.