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mwm · 07-29-2010, 07:08 PM

Looks like the "bought" vote for the MLPA recommendation on the Fish and Game commission is out. Couldn't happen to a nicer guy...except maybe Meg. Hopefully someone that respects anglers rights will get appointed in his place.

http://www.sacbee.com/2010/07/29/292...ossed-off.html

dsafety · 07-29-2010, 09:57 PM

I don't know where to start with my reaction to reading this article. Wow. If I ever had the thought that we remain a country "of the people, by the people, for the people", I will probably need to rethink my opinion. The new mantra should be "of the money, by the money, for the money".

While I tentatively take some hope that a purchased politician who sides against us is out of the picture, I cannot jump for joy until I know who will fill his shoes. This whole process sucks.

The older I get, the more disillusioned I become. Greed and hardball politics seem to control everything. I long for the day when the words spoken by Mr. Lincoln many years ago will again define our way of life.

Bob

Gino · 07-30-2010, 12:09 AM

Greed and harball persuastions is the nature of the beast that is politics. nothing ever goes without a check handed here... a check handed over there... it is what it is. Thats why less of it, is always better.

But besides all that, Good Benninghoven is gone, Hip hip Hurray! The guy who worte this article really sound slike a Crybaby. making Benninghiven out to be a "martyr" oh come on. The same Enviormental special intrest play the same game, but becuase they are out to save the sea turtles and the fat lazy seals, thier lobbying and corruption is just!

But fisherman put together money form the collective, and from related buisness to stop the closures, and oppose Benninghoven, and were the bad guys, As if the MLPA itself isnt a child of the same special intrest from the enviormental left.

In Sacramento when they run out of toilet paper, they use the Bee

j mo · 07-30-2010, 07:07 AM

Thanks for passing on the article. I love the "objectivity" of the author of the article, poor Don B. a tireless beurocrat ....

"The effort generated hundreds of e-mails to the state Senate opposing him"

wow it actually worked!

roadx · 07-30-2010, 07:57 AM

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Originally Posted by j mo

Thanks for passing on the article. I love the "objectivity" of the author of the article....

"The effort generated hundreds of e-mails to the state Senate opposing him"

wow it actually worked!

i would like to think so, it's great to see results so quickly

mwm · 07-30-2010, 08:25 AM

This does reinforce the message that all those email and letters sent during the MLPA campaign were not in vain. This is a political process and if you don't voice your opinion, even if you think it is pointless to do so, you are sealing your own fate.

07-29-2010, 07:08 PM	#1
mwm Member Join Date: Aug 2008 Posts: 33	What goes around ... Looks like the "bought" vote for the MLPA recommendation on the Fish and Game commission is out. Couldn't happen to a nicer guy...except maybe Meg. Hopefully someone that respects anglers rights will get appointed in his place. http://www.sacbee.com/2010/07/29/292...ossed-off.html

07-29-2010, 09:57 PM	#2
dsafety Olivenhain Bob Join Date: May 2008 Location: Olivenhain, CA Posts: 1,121	I don't know where to start with my reaction to reading this article. Wow. If I ever had the thought that we remain a country "of the people, by the people, for the people", I will probably need to rethink my opinion. The new mantra should be "of the money, by the money, for the money". While I tentatively take some hope that a purchased politician who sides against us is out of the picture, I cannot jump for joy until I know who will fill his shoes. This whole process sucks. The older I get, the more disillusioned I become. Greed and hardball politics seem to control everything. I long for the day when the words spoken by Mr. Lincoln many years ago will again define our way of life. Bob Last edited by dsafety; 07-30-2010 at 09:33 AM.

07-30-2010, 07:07 AM	#4
j mo Member Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Encinitas Posts: 600	Thanks for passing on the article. I love the "objectivity" of the author of the article, poor Don B. a tireless beurocrat .... "The effort generated hundreds of e-mails to the state Senate opposing him" wow it actually worked! Last edited by j mo; 07-30-2010 at 08:10 AM.

07-30-2010, 12:09 AM	#3
Gino Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2009 Posts: 520	Greed and harball persuastions is the nature of the beast that is politics. nothing ever goes without a check handed here... a check handed over there... it is what it is. Thats why less of it, is always better. But besides all that, Good Benninghoven is gone, Hip hip Hurray! The guy who worte this article really sound slike a Crybaby. making Benninghiven out to be a "martyr" oh come on. The same Enviormental special intrest play the same game, but becuase they are out to save the sea turtles and the fat lazy seals, thier lobbying and corruption is just! But fisherman put together money form the collective, and from related buisness to stop the closures, and oppose Benninghoven, and were the bad guys, As if the MLPA itself isnt a child of the same special intrest from the enviormental left. In Sacramento when they run out of toilet paper, they use the Bee

07-30-2010, 08:25 AM	#6
mwm Member Join Date: Aug 2008 Posts: 33	This does reinforce the message that all those email and letters sent during the MLPA campaign were not in vain. This is a political process and if you don't voice your opinion, even if you think it is pointless to do so, you are sealing your own fate.