Hook and bullet politics: Many sportsmen fed up with GOP (in Montana)

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Hook and bullet politics: Many sportsmen fed up with GOP
By SCOTT McMILLION, Chronicle Staff Writer

Randy Newberg wants to send a message to hunters and anglers: pay attention to your lawmakers.

And he has a message for legislators, the governor and members of the Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks Commission: pay attention to hunters and anglers.

At more than 200,000 strong, they constitute the largest interest group in the state, and they haven't been treated well in recent years, Newberg said.

And because Republicans have been running the Legislature and the Senate since 1994 and the governor's mansion since 1988, that party is bearing the brunt of his scorn.

"I am a registered Republican," Newberg, a Bozeman accountant, said this week. "But I am very disappointed that Republican legislators in this valley vote consistently for bills that are detrimental to" the Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks.

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