READ THIS YOU FREEPERS!!! IF THIS ISN'T A CAUSE CELEB FOR WWW.FREEREPUBLIC.COM... WHAT IS???
I simply cannot understand the abject apathy on this subject on this fantastic site!!! Can someone explain it to me???
We fought for Klamath Falls, we fought for the FL swamp people, now are we going to let them abort property rights and slap another layer of government on the people of the Sierra-Nevada??? Unbelievable if true!!!
Now now, the florida swamp thing was killed by this forum too. My chapter co-leader was even banned over it. My fight with the mods goes way back.
You know, SW, maybe the way to beat this thing for now, especially for those of us who have Dems "representing" them, is to call/write and just scream about the money. Alpert is supposedly on the edge because of the budget crisis. I think I'll send some new letters saying "we can't afford it". Maybe that's easy enough for these leftists to understand.
This year's effort has gained momentum with the support of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, who called the Sierra range "one of the state's crown jewels" during last year's campaign. He has dispatched officials from his Resources Agency to hammer out a deal.
Of course, I'll send another reminder to Arnold, too. He seems to forget he is a Republican "fiscal conservative".
2004 election.....Soros......||||War on Terror....Iraq;.....Iran;;;;Pakistan;;;;;;Waziristan.... the list goes on....
NJ just went through this, it's a constituency problem, the conservation of land has very few immediate losers, and arguably many long term winners. The fact that the mayor of the town with citizens who have the most to lose, is leading the charge for further conservation, also invokes serious agency issues.
ON one side, with each property bought by a Conservancy,is a single landowner and a few dozen contractors if it's to be developed, versus every environmental group, every state politician trying for easy "enviro" cred without harming his voting constituency, and every feel-good liberal, from the area hardest affected and from locations outside the area working in concert, makes for a long hard uphill battle. Which will be ultimately decided by a panel of judges, over Constitutional rights of private property vs. the "public good".
It leaves little room for the manuevering and pressuring that FR is capable of.
In both those instances, a local opposition group formed and people from outside the area came to support them. Klamath Falls had a crisis website. The Bucket Brigade was organized by people from the area etc. As far as the Conservancy, I haven't seen any local opposition Waspman...am I missing something?