Just wanted to keep everyone in the loop on what happened today in the house TRW committee meeting on this license set aside bill.
First of all, your emails made a huge impact, there was a lot of discussion regarding the fairness, constitutionality, and reasons for set asides.
Representative MacGuire, who is 100% spot on with this bill, gave some of, if not the best public testimony on hunting I have heard probably ever. He is 100% about keeping hunting available to all, young, old, rich, poor, man, women, black, white, he doesn't care hunting should be equal to all. He's a perfect fit on the TRW committee.
He offered an amendment to keep the bill as is, with the current tag allotment set at 80, split evenly between the Lander one shot hunt and the women's hunt at 40 each. I want to be perfectly clear that the Women's hunt is the real deal, they do great work and we all need to actively work on getting more women in the field. But, this bill is not about the integrity of the Women's hunt, its about keeping Access to tags on a level playing field.
So, the next step, and I almost hate to ask again, but I think its important enough, the entire House side needs to hear that splitting the 80 existing tags between the 2 hunts, that the MacGuire amendment recommends, is the only path forward, if not, the bill needs to go away. This thing is going to get punted around on the floor here soon, and we need to keep the amendment alive keeping the allotment at 80 tags, or ask that the legislation not move forward.
Please, be polite and to the point...you guys that sent emails made a tremendous difference, no question...thank you.
Here's the list: http://legisweb.state.wy.us/LegislatorSummary/LegislatorList.aspx?strHouse=H&strStatus=N
Jim.Allen@wyoleg.gov Eric.Barlow@wyoleg.gov Bo.Biteman@wyoleg.gov Jim.Blackburn@wyoleg.gov stan.blake@wyoleg.gov Debbie.Bovee@wyoleg.gov Landon.Brown@wyoleg.gov Donald.Burkhart@wyoleg.gov james.byrd@wyoleg.gov Aaron.Clausen@wyoleg.gov Scott.Clem@wyoleg.gov Cathy.Connolly@wyoleg.gov Scott.Court@wyoleg.gov Thomas.Crank@wyoleg.gov JoAnn.Dayton@wyoleg.gov Roy.Edwards@wyoleg.gov John.Eklund@wyoleg.gov Danny.Eyre@wyoleg.gov Jamie.Flitner@wyoleg.gov John.Freeman@wyoleg.gov Dan.Furphy@wyoleg.gov Mike.Gierau@wyoleg.gov Chuck.Gray@wyoleg.gov mike.greear@wyoleg.gov Bill.Haley@wyoleg.gov Marti.Halverson@wyoleg.gov Tim.Hallinan@wyoleg.gov steve.harshman@wyoleg.gov Bill.Henderson@wyoleg.gov hans.hunt@wyoleg.gov Mark.Jennings@wyoleg.gov Mark.Kinner@wyoleg.gov Dan.Kirkbride@wyoleg.gov Lloyd.Larsen@wyoleg.gov Dan.Laursen@wyoleg.gov Tyler.Lindholm@wyoleg.gov Lars.Lone@wyoleg.gov Bunky.Loucks@wyoleg.gov Mike.Madden@wyoleg.gov David.Miller@wyoleg.gov Bob.Nicholas@wyoleg.gov David.Northrup@wyoleg.gov Jerry.Obermueller@wyoleg.gov Jared.Olsen@wyoleg.gov Jerry.Paxton@wyoleg.gov Charles.Pelkey@wyoleg.gov Garry.Piiparinen@wyoleg.gov Bill.Pownall@wyoleg.gov Tim.Salazar@wyoleg.gov Andy.Schwartz@wyoleg.gov Evan.Simpson@wyoleg.gov Albert.Sommers@wyoleg.gov Cheri.Steinmetz@wyoleg.gov Clark.Stith@wyoleg.gov Patrick.Sweeney@wyoleg.gov Tom.Walters@wyoleg.gov Sue.Wilson@wyoleg.gov Nathan.Winters@wyoleg.gov dan.zwonitzer@wyoleg.gov
First of all, your emails made a huge impact, there was a lot of discussion regarding the fairness, constitutionality, and reasons for set asides.
Representative MacGuire, who is 100% spot on with this bill, gave some of, if not the best public testimony on hunting I have heard probably ever. He is 100% about keeping hunting available to all, young, old, rich, poor, man, women, black, white, he doesn't care hunting should be equal to all. He's a perfect fit on the TRW committee.
He offered an amendment to keep the bill as is, with the current tag allotment set at 80, split evenly between the Lander one shot hunt and the women's hunt at 40 each. I want to be perfectly clear that the Women's hunt is the real deal, they do great work and we all need to actively work on getting more women in the field. But, this bill is not about the integrity of the Women's hunt, its about keeping Access to tags on a level playing field.
So, the next step, and I almost hate to ask again, but I think its important enough, the entire House side needs to hear that splitting the 80 existing tags between the 2 hunts, that the MacGuire amendment recommends, is the only path forward, if not, the bill needs to go away. This thing is going to get punted around on the floor here soon, and we need to keep the amendment alive keeping the allotment at 80 tags, or ask that the legislation not move forward.
Please, be polite and to the point...you guys that sent emails made a tremendous difference, no question...thank you.
Here's the list: http://legisweb.state.wy.us/LegislatorSummary/LegislatorList.aspx?strHouse=H&strStatus=N
Jim.Allen@wyoleg.gov Eric.Barlow@wyoleg.gov Bo.Biteman@wyoleg.gov Jim.Blackburn@wyoleg.gov stan.blake@wyoleg.gov Debbie.Bovee@wyoleg.gov Landon.Brown@wyoleg.gov Donald.Burkhart@wyoleg.gov james.byrd@wyoleg.gov Aaron.Clausen@wyoleg.gov Scott.Clem@wyoleg.gov Cathy.Connolly@wyoleg.gov Scott.Court@wyoleg.gov Thomas.Crank@wyoleg.gov JoAnn.Dayton@wyoleg.gov Roy.Edwards@wyoleg.gov John.Eklund@wyoleg.gov Danny.Eyre@wyoleg.gov Jamie.Flitner@wyoleg.gov John.Freeman@wyoleg.gov Dan.Furphy@wyoleg.gov Mike.Gierau@wyoleg.gov Chuck.Gray@wyoleg.gov mike.greear@wyoleg.gov Bill.Haley@wyoleg.gov Marti.Halverson@wyoleg.gov Tim.Hallinan@wyoleg.gov steve.harshman@wyoleg.gov Bill.Henderson@wyoleg.gov hans.hunt@wyoleg.gov Mark.Jennings@wyoleg.gov Mark.Kinner@wyoleg.gov Dan.Kirkbride@wyoleg.gov Lloyd.Larsen@wyoleg.gov Dan.Laursen@wyoleg.gov Tyler.Lindholm@wyoleg.gov Lars.Lone@wyoleg.gov Bunky.Loucks@wyoleg.gov Mike.Madden@wyoleg.gov David.Miller@wyoleg.gov Bob.Nicholas@wyoleg.gov David.Northrup@wyoleg.gov Jerry.Obermueller@wyoleg.gov Jared.Olsen@wyoleg.gov Jerry.Paxton@wyoleg.gov Charles.Pelkey@wyoleg.gov Garry.Piiparinen@wyoleg.gov Bill.Pownall@wyoleg.gov Tim.Salazar@wyoleg.gov Andy.Schwartz@wyoleg.gov Evan.Simpson@wyoleg.gov Albert.Sommers@wyoleg.gov Cheri.Steinmetz@wyoleg.gov Clark.Stith@wyoleg.gov Patrick.Sweeney@wyoleg.gov Tom.Walters@wyoleg.gov Sue.Wilson@wyoleg.gov Nathan.Winters@wyoleg.gov dan.zwonitzer@wyoleg.gov
