terrytheluddite
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Looks like Wyoming is getting my money on that one.What’s really going to sting is if this 6.5% tax on guns and ammo passes..
Looks like Wyoming is getting my money on that one.What’s really going to sting is if this 6.5% tax on guns and ammo passes..
How do these ballot initiatives work when they are voted down? Can the people pushing this just try again on the next election year?
Thanks for the breakdown, now I know who to support!A huge thanks to all who helped defeat this measure including Dan Gates, CRWM, HOWL, the Concord Fund, SCI, GoHunt, CSF, Wild Sheep, RMEF, NSSF, Fur Takers, MDF, NRA, cattlemen, woolgrowers and sportsman and women!!!
From a recent article in the VailDaily:
Colorado’s Wildlife Deserve Better’s largest donor is the Concord Fund, a conservative advocacy and donor organization based in Virginia. The group, which has ties to Leonard Leo, co-chairman of the Federalist Society, contributed $600,000 to the committee.
Its next largest donor is the Congressional Sportsmen’s Foundation, a Washington D.C.-based advocacy organization for hunters, anglers, trappers and recreational shooters. To date, the group has donated $237,000 to the committee.
Safari Club International’s Colorado Chapter donated $150,000, making it one of several Safari Club International chapters to do so. This group is a hunting rights organization based in Washington D.C. representing hunter interests. It has 50,000 members nationwide.
A Safari Club International chapter, based in Tuscon, has donated $41,500 to the committee opposing 127, with its Upper Colorado River, Michigan, Southern New Mexico, Alaska and Four Corners chapters also making contributions.
Other large donations to Colorado’s Wildlife Deserve Better include:
It has also received donations from the National Rifle Association and various other cattlemen and wool grower associations as well as sportsmen and hunting outfitters.
- $200,000 from Rocky Mountain Elk, a Montana-based nonprofit with chapters in various states including Colorado, with the stated mission to protect elk, habitat and the heritage of hunting.
- $150,000 from Coloradans for Responsible Wildlife Management, a group that has been outspoken against 127 and Denver ballot measures to ban fur and slaughterhouses
- $100,000 from the Wild Sheep Foundation, a Montana-based organization supporting wild sheep conservation
- $50,000 from the National Shooting Sports Foundation, a trade association for the firearms industry based in Connecticut
- $35,000 from Fur Takers of America, a national fur trapper association based in Wisconsin, which has a Colorado affiliate, Colorado Trappers and Predator Hunters Association
- $25,000 from the Mule Deer Foundation, a Utah-based nonprofit that supports deer conservation and regulated hunting as a part of wildlife management
Yes but they spent millions to fail and by a decent margin, they’ll likely look to attack other states / topics with their resources for their next attempt vs immediately retrying.How do these ballot initiatives work when they are voted down? Can the people pushing this just try again on the next election year?
To me, waiting for a ballot initiative to get going IS reacting late. Playing defense once the other team has the ball is short-sighted and a poor way to win a war. You're all happy now, but were sure biting your nails last night wondering, and "winning" this 55 to 45 was not a big victory to me.With all due respect, brother I disagree, we reacted late on the wolf issue, but Dan Gates and CRWM got way ahead on this cat issue. @Travis Hobbs had Dan on the Rokcast on January 1, (and Dan had been on a few other podcasts last fall). We offered free ad space to HOWL starting in 2023.