The conservancy will create a bureau of unelected officials who will give taxpayer money and resources to environmental NGOs. This will make the NGOs extremely wealthy and extremely powerful because the right of the citizen to have any say over public land will be destroyed. You cannot possibly support this.
When NGOs start to run things, the rights of citizens are lost.
Do you think an NGO should be able to change your property line? Because this NGO will if the conservancy passes. If you don't think they should be able to change your property line, why should it be ok for them to change the property of others? Do you think they should be able to buy and sell real estate like a for profit corporation and never pay taxes? Do you think they should be able to have a bank account of this money-- where they are free from the worry that taxpayers might cut off their funding-- because they will have their own wealth and therefore be uncontrollable by the electorate? Do think any NGO has the right to take public money for land then make it illegal for the land to be used for anything except what they want? What if the public changes their mind? What if there is an economic downturn so severe that the land is needed for its resources and contribution to the economy? Do you think that the people of today should have to give up their property rights and economic prosperity for "future generations" to be determined by an NGO?
I don't think any clear thinking citizen of a Constitutional Republic would answer yes to any of those questions.
I absolutely do not support this.
I will be making my opinion known to all of our conservative state representitives. It is up to them to see that this bill never reaches Arnold's desk. They did not make campagin promises to support this garbage. It is up to them to put a stop to it. If they let this thing get to Arnold's desk they don't deserve to be called conservatives.
Tommy? Are you listening?
Excellent Post!