WisOutdoorNews; "Walker for sportsmen? Thats a fairy tale, folks"

[GusBob]

Last edited Tue Feb 24, 2015, 02:25 PM - Edit history (1)

The current issue of Wisconsin Outdoor News is taking Walker to task with 4 articles, 2 editorials and 1 LTTE questioning his budget proposals and the problems they will create for hunters/fishers/outdoors folks

WON is a bimonthly publication I take by subscription. The website is: www.outdoornews.com/wisconsin WON claims to have 250K readers. I have been reading it for years as an armchair outdoors guy. It is not a 'slaughter' publication, they have articles on conservation, promote catch and release fishing, etc. And they take global warming as a fact routinely without question nor debate ( most recently blaming loss of snowshoe hare populations up Nort' on climate change)

its readership, on the other hand, well if you live in Wisconsin you may know the type: Hates the DNR, hates the timber wolves, loves the NRA, hates "Madison Liberals", thinks life North of HWY 8 is God's own way, etc. Probably 90% of these people who vote, voted for Walker. He did a lil' song and dance, went out for opening morning, once. Went fishing for a photo-op and held the rod and reel upside down.

Now they are feeling screwn. And they are waking up to the fact its because of the Koch brothers

[riversedge]

1. glad to see this. thanks

[GusBob]

4. Me too. It will be interesting to see how the readership responds

My other source for Wisc Outdoor Info.....Lake-Link, which is hugely popular and has some political discussion (mostly from the 'DNR sucks' gang) has been absolutely quiet on this subject. Mostly because if they criticize walker they will get blasted

They should be livid. The NRB was "their voice" in the process for feedback with the DNR. It was stacked with Walker appointees and the gunners thought they were chinking away at the DNR's armor. Now they are toothless and Walker is just gonna tell the DNR Secty what regulations the Kochs want to do away with. The DNR will have absolute power

The irony is the NRB was an unfunded and unpaid board. They still have to meet. It does not save any money nor streamline any process

the outdoors guys/gals have to be tilting their blaze orange and camo caps back and scratching their collective heads

[randys1]

2. I pray you are right, what we know is righty responds ONLY when THEY need something

Righty is the most greedy and selfish human being in the human family and the ONLY time they will show any interest is if their need is threatened, whatever that need is.

[GusBob]

3. "righty"

LOL I saw that word on the website

Dan Durbin ( voted thrice for Wanker) "I'm not shy about being conservative or voting that way, but this really ticks me off. And if it ticks off a 'righty" I can't (sic) only imagine how mad sportsmen and women from the other side are"

indeed

[riversedge]

10. indeed!!

[Scuba]

5. Thanks GusBob!!!

[GusBob]

8. thank you

[postulater]

6. Here's the direct link.

http://www.outdoornews.com/Wisconsin/

I'm glad they are reporting this.

The average person in Wisconsin is very trusting. They expect each other to be honest. Surprisingly, I think they trust at least their own politicians to be honest. For the most part even our Republican elected officials are open and say what they mean. We may disagree with them but at least we know what they stand for. Even Jim Sensenbrenner, as much as I disagree with him, is straightforward about his views and will listen to opposing ones. Walker will not even listen (nor will Ron Johnson).

So when Walker shows up as the usual Republican candidate, the usual Republicans trust him. And they don't want to admit they have been duped.

[GusBob]

7. Thank you for that and well said

I cant find the main editorial by Dean Bortz, the one I quoted from in the OP, at the website. It is in the print edition.

I think you've offered a good description of the average Cheesehead. They are far and away great people.

I think they decided to give Walker the benefit of the doubt on the recall (trusting). I think now we realize he is taking advantage of that trust. Big mistake

As far as not listening--when they sent out the changes to the Wisconsin Idea--and stated "this is not open for debate" I am damned certain it rubbed people the wrong way, left and right. That's not how Wisconsin people deal at all.

[riversedge]

9. I know lots of hunters who are conservationists. They want the land

and water to be there for all to use and enjoy. Of course there are hunters who are just baggers also. But I remember back in 2011 during the recall--we were set up in a small town during hunting season. We were only a block away from the venison processing store. Lots of hunters stopped by to sign. Made my day (were were there 2 days).
Then we moved about 30 miles north to another small town and got harassed by "Hunter's for Walker" folks. We did not come back to the redneck town.

[GusBob]

14. Small towns in Wisconsin can run hot or cold

The biggest conservationist at WON is from Oconto Falls, not known as a hotbed of liberalism. If you go up the road to Oconto, there are plenty of Dems

[riversedge]

11. self delete

[Praek3]

12. Do They Still Love Snotty Walker now?

I raised my three children among the flora and fauna of Wisconsin's north woods. We traveled to many county, state and national parks numerous times each year. We love the south shore of Lake Superior. We have been snowed on in our tents in May. We have gotten stuck taking back roads to ice fishing lakes. We have heard the loons at night. Had bald eagles land very close to us during the day. We are hunter-safety graduates. We have hunted and eaten the meat and tanned the hides. We are all better people for these experiences.

We have also cleaned up others' garbage. Found frogs with no eye sockets. Drove a highway littered with dismembered whitetail feet?! We have seen and reported poachers. We live near two lakes in west central Wisconsin that are green and produce gag-inducing vapors all summer, caused by life-threatening poisonous blue algae. We are shocked by these experiences.

MOST disturbing to me is the increase in guns and trapping in our parks. No money for maintenance, upgrades or saving lands.

There seems to be no rock bottom for these slime balls.

Do his voters still love him now?

[GusBob]

13. Welcome to DU

The natural resources in Wisconsin are a treasure for all, not the damned Koch brothers. Walker wants to defund the state parks too. The axman cometh

I think this all has to do with less environmental regulation on one hand, and opening that bad River mine on the other.

When the people in Lynne township told the miners to piss up a rope over the Lynne deposit, jobs be damned, I think that torqued the oligarchs the wrong way and they start padding Walkers pockets for their projects

[Still In Wisconsin]

15. Walker fishing...

I saw that one. Held the damned reel upside down.




What an outdoorsman. I wonder if he knows which end of a shotgun shoots?