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:
- $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
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.
