Liberty Belle
Well-known member
I don't know... does this sound like an apology to you?
About that State Rep. Olson
I am amused Betty Olson, a state rep from Prairie City, spends so much time observing me.
I made an error in a story I wrote for the SF ARgus Leader, when I attributed her sponsorship of some horrendous anti-sportsman legislation. I mistakenly took her to task for stuff she'd actually authored a year earlier.
Oh well, her legislation was stupid then and remains so.
However, her support and pushing of a proposed law that would require the state to reimburse motorists for collisions with deer takes the cake for absurdity.
Here's a woman who spearheaded the failed, anti-hunter SD Lockout, now saying there are too many deer, and it's the states fault.
Betty isn't stupid, but she just doesn't get it, and she doesn't understand the fact South Dakotans tend to see right through her radicalism.
She takes advantage of everything I pen, mostly out of context, to suggest I am anti-ranching. She does this regularly on the Ranchers.net website. I visit the site on occasion and have discovered that ranchers elsewhere, wonder why SD ranchers take such a dim view of hunters and the GFP. Truth is, they do not represent all ranchers, and as is the case with nearly all websites, they are the radicals who post incessantly, under the cloak of anonymity.
Ranchers have a tough go of it these days following almost a decade of drought. I spent a day last week with one, who has graciously given me permission to hunt turkeys on his ranch, and his fears are real.
He needs to generate additional cash flow to keep his ranch solvent, and is leaning toward commercializing deer hunting on his land. I have no problem with that, other than it tends to shut out folks without the means to pay big fees.
Anyway, Betty's continual attacks on me on the Ranchers.net website are a source of amusement for yours truly. I suspect they mean I have finally gotten her goat. Good, that's what I intended to do.
Moreover, I think Betty is learning, albeit slowly, that her radical ideas haven't played well in the legislature.
And yes, her ideas tend toward the radical side.
I have consistently called the SD Lockout a "failed" effort.
As evidence, in response to claims that the Lockout has ended big game hunting in Harding County, I point out that there is considerable high quality public land available there, and the GFP has added thousands of acres of Walk In land in that county. However, Betty continues to crow about the success of the lockout. She's wrong. It's been a failure.
What that says, eloquently, is that not all ranchers agree with her thinking. Especially those who have participated in the walk in program.
And Betty has no response to that. (and he's not even kidding!?!) :twisted:
Perhaps the good folks in her legislative district will eventually come to the conclusion that she may talk big, but actually delivers little.
April 13, 2008
http://www.tonydean.com/issues2.html?sectionid=9745
About that State Rep. Olson
I am amused Betty Olson, a state rep from Prairie City, spends so much time observing me.
I made an error in a story I wrote for the SF ARgus Leader, when I attributed her sponsorship of some horrendous anti-sportsman legislation. I mistakenly took her to task for stuff she'd actually authored a year earlier.
Oh well, her legislation was stupid then and remains so.
However, her support and pushing of a proposed law that would require the state to reimburse motorists for collisions with deer takes the cake for absurdity.
Here's a woman who spearheaded the failed, anti-hunter SD Lockout, now saying there are too many deer, and it's the states fault.
Betty isn't stupid, but she just doesn't get it, and she doesn't understand the fact South Dakotans tend to see right through her radicalism.
She takes advantage of everything I pen, mostly out of context, to suggest I am anti-ranching. She does this regularly on the Ranchers.net website. I visit the site on occasion and have discovered that ranchers elsewhere, wonder why SD ranchers take such a dim view of hunters and the GFP. Truth is, they do not represent all ranchers, and as is the case with nearly all websites, they are the radicals who post incessantly, under the cloak of anonymity.
Ranchers have a tough go of it these days following almost a decade of drought. I spent a day last week with one, who has graciously given me permission to hunt turkeys on his ranch, and his fears are real.
He needs to generate additional cash flow to keep his ranch solvent, and is leaning toward commercializing deer hunting on his land. I have no problem with that, other than it tends to shut out folks without the means to pay big fees.
Anyway, Betty's continual attacks on me on the Ranchers.net website are a source of amusement for yours truly. I suspect they mean I have finally gotten her goat. Good, that's what I intended to do.
Moreover, I think Betty is learning, albeit slowly, that her radical ideas haven't played well in the legislature.
And yes, her ideas tend toward the radical side.
I have consistently called the SD Lockout a "failed" effort.
As evidence, in response to claims that the Lockout has ended big game hunting in Harding County, I point out that there is considerable high quality public land available there, and the GFP has added thousands of acres of Walk In land in that county. However, Betty continues to crow about the success of the lockout. She's wrong. It's been a failure.
What that says, eloquently, is that not all ranchers agree with her thinking. Especially those who have participated in the walk in program.
And Betty has no response to that. (and he's not even kidding!?!) :twisted:
Perhaps the good folks in her legislative district will eventually come to the conclusion that she may talk big, but actually delivers little.
April 13, 2008
http://www.tonydean.com/issues2.html?sectionid=9745
