how to take back the rural/hunter vote

[montana500]

you use crap like this as your tool:


http://washingtontimes.com/op-ed/20050307-083134-5753r.htm

[RebelOne]

1. I don't understand. What vote?

[XemaSab]

2. Moonie times

"Let's sell off federal lands to buy more bombers!"

[CatholicEdHead]

3. Weak

suggest you will get more hunting lands by opening up federal lands, yet all you are doing is letting corporations in and destorying ecosystems and habitat.

[Clark2008]

4. How 'bout we just bring more variety in their media out there to them

The No. 1 reason most hunters and rural dwellers vote for Bush is that the only thing they have to listen to on their commute from their home into the city to work is right-wing radio.
When are there going to be more AAR and the like in the rural community?
Or, better yet, when are we going to take back the media and make it report the truth instead of pre-packaged Bush propaganda?

[NVMojo]

5. Remember Jim Gibbons, the plagerist and liberal hater?

Friday, February 25, 2005 7:10 PM PST



ELKO - Too much of Nevada is already owned by the federal government and the trend toward increasing federal land ownership needs to be reversed.

That's the opinion of northern Nevada's congressman and northeastern Nevada's state representatives.

With federal ownership at 91.9 percent and growing, those who value property rights are looking at ways to put more land into private hands.

The disparity dates back to the origins of the state.

When Nevada entered the union in 1864, the federal government kept most of the land within its borders. Some was doled out under the Homestead Act of 1862, including parcels in Elko County that would become large cattle ranches.

However, most of the arid territory remained unclaimed over the next century. The Homestead Act was discontinued everywhere except Alaska in 1976, and much of Nevada today remains under the control of the U.S. Bureau of Land Management. Other major land holders include the U.S. Forest Service and Department of Defense, according to a 2003 General Services Administration inventory.


In recent years, more land has shifted into federal ownership under the Southern Nevada Public Land Management Act. Federal property sold at auction in the Las Vegas area brings a high price, and 85 percent of the money is used to purchase land elsewhere in the state.

U.S. Rep. Jim Gibbons, R-Nev., believes it is time to reverse the trend. Speaking to the Elko Daily Free Press this week, he called for a program that would sell off federal land to allow for reasonable growth at a reasonable price.

Gibbons said Nevada's congressional delegation has been researching the possibility of a "Northern Nevada Public Land Management Act" to serve the needs of rural Nevada, just as SNPLMA has served the urban needs of southern Nevada.

more...

http://www.elkodaily.com/articles/2005/02/26/news/local/news4.txt

Plans would shift federal land to private ownership

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[cestpaspossible]

6. Attack Bush and Repubs on not funding PILT

that's the only lesson I see here.

[DorianGreene]

8. Maybe we should...

run Jeff Foxworthy as a senator, or mayhaps a look alike, if he is a repub.


T HE.

[sandnsea]

9. Sell hunting grounds???

Uh, I don't think this will go over well in the west at all. People want responsible use of land, not corporate takeovers.

Watch Oregon's land use fight. When people realize it means quarries next to elementary schools, they will remember why we had land use laws in the first place. Republicans are going too far and it'll be clear soon.

I don't see Montanans wanting another Berkeley Pit, the recent mining vote would seem to support that. They know selling off federal lands will mean exactly that.

I think this is a dumb idea, if Dems frame it right. I hope Schweitzer is on his toes on this one.

[meow2u3]

10. Guarantee first-rate public hunting grounds for all

without the so-called "user fees" (read: stealth taxes) and stand up to the developers, loggers, and polluters who will take away their hunting grounds and provoke gun owners to turn on one another.