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Member Section => Down Range Cafe => Topic started by: MikeBjerum on August 10, 2012, 02:47:12 PM
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... to a fund to sue the State of California over this!
http://www.petersenshunting.com/2012/08/10/california-fish-game-president-ousted-over-legal-hunting/ (http://www.petersenshunting.com/2012/08/10/california-fish-game-president-ousted-over-legal-hunting/)
Back in February, we brought you the story of Dan Richards, then-president of the California Fish & Game Commission, who at the time was catching a lot of heat over legally shooting a cougar during a hunt in Idaho.
California state lawmakers were quick to get on their moral high horses, calling for Richards’ resignation and citing the fact that mountain lions are protected in California, to which Richards replied with a reasonable, yet stinging, letter addressed to the California legislature in which he called out the hypocrisy of those calling for his resignation.
We had hoped cooler heads would prevail and that Richards would be able to keep his job, but we can’t always get what we want, can we? On Wednesday, Richards was removed from his position.
Backed by groups like the Humane Society of the United States, lawmakers claimed Richards hunt displayed poor judgment, apparently disregarding the will of some Californians.
Despite the fact Richards committed no crime and participated in a completely legal hunt, commissioners voted unanimously to oust Richards as president, replacing him with Jim Kellogg, who is apparently viewed as a compromise between outdoorsmen and environmental groups. Richards will continue to serve as a commissioner, but is not expected to be reinstated by California Gov. Jerry Brown.
Read more: http://www.petersenshunting.com/2012/08/10/california-fish-game-president-ousted-over-legal-hunting/#ixzz23As4sGc3
At first I was going to say that we sue for Richards to get a multi-million dollar payout. After I thought about it I decided it would be better for him to receive some cash compensation, but we want him in his office fighting for sportsmen through out the nation.
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It was the ethics violation ( aka free trip) that got him the boot. The tree huggers took over from there.
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TAB,
Read the reports like I did before posting this:
Richards paid for the trip as soon as he was told it broke the ethics rules. This is common with public employees. These gift rules are so strange that it is hard to tell what you can and can not accept. In Minnesota most politicians and staff in department offices can get fired for winning raffles.