Posted on 02/28/2012 10:53:32 PM PST by SmithL
California Fish and Game Commission President Daniel Richards said Tuesday that there is "zero chance" he will resign over a photograph showing him grinning as he holds up the body of a mountain lion he shot, killed and ate in Idaho recently.
In a letter addressed to Assemblyman Ben Hueso, D-San Diego, one of dozens of public officials who called for Richards' resignation in recent days, Richards blasted lawmakers and others for their criticism of his hunting expedition and mocked their condemnation of the kill.
Richards wrote that he did eat a cougar for dinner, did not use a high-powered rifle and said he has "consistently supported" conservation efforts as a commissioner when they were backed by scientific evidence. He compared his actions to a California official gambling in Nevada.
While it's legal to kill the big cats in Idaho, California has banned the hunting of mountain lions since 1972, and voters have twice renewed that restriction. After the photo surfaced online this week, at least 40 lawmakers and Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom called for his resignation.
Newsom, in a letter, said the "actions call into question whether you can live up to the calling of your office," and "do not reflect the values of the people of California."
Richards was unapologetic.
"Do you really think a California commissioner is actually obligated to follow California laws across these United States? Really?" Richards wrote on Fish and Game letterhead in a two-page correspondence he also sent to the entire Legislature, the governor, the California secretary of Natural Resources, and members of the Fish and Game Commission.
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That is a ridiculous statement and sentiment, you need to read the article more closely and you will see that he did nothing illegal, your attack on his freedoms and wanting him to go to jail is way out of line.
The “hurt feelings” are because he is a Republican appointee and is trying to keep the commission focused on hunting and game, and the left wants him off to replace him with an environmentalist.
Are you supporting the Democrats on this?
Is this slow-pitch softball?
Earth to gleeaikin: The "Florida panther subspecies" is a bureaucrat/activist scam; it's the SAME species. Worse, the "panthers" they "reintroduced" to bump up the population were from Texas which (being bigger) quickly bred out whatever (if anything) was left of a unique Florida variety.
What you've got down there now are mountain lions from Texas.
One more time slow person, I took the other posters word for his doing something without a proper permit. Can you read????
I bet you have never been there, I have/?//
Boy isn’t that the truth. Imagine an adult human fishing without permission from the state or federal government. I’ll bet you wish they had to give you permission to wet yourself too, when you see some guy fishing without a license.
There used to be a bounty on them in California!
A friend of mine paid his way through college shooting cats for the bounty, $90 for a male, $110 for a female.
That was in the 50s when a dollar was worth something.
Margo Sullivan is dead?
I can read, can you?
Your comment and desire to have the man sent to jail was ridiculous, he didn’t even break the law as you posted.
I don’t think anyone forced you to take that position, unless you think that someone used ‘trickinolgy’ on you.
“Frankly, I don’t consider cats edible. Ever watch them lick their butts?”
You might want to revise your thinking along those liners, or at least posting from that premise.
Have you watches a chicken’s eating habits?
“First I have heard the mountain lion is good eatin’.”
A participant in the Annual Beast Feast said it was good, and he liked it.
“Does it taste like chicken?”
Aside from texture differences, it is more like Spotted Owl.
Are you supporting the Democrats on this?Why would you suggest that? I didn't say my feelings were hurt.
Those interested may go to EvergladesInstitute.org and read the definitive article on puma heridity, titled The Genomic Ancestry of the America Puma.
According to the article, “..the fifteen previously identified sub-species are not affirmed”.
However, Carrie_Okie is wrong, Wrong, WRONG!
FloriDUH does not just have hybrid pumas, we have both cats and ‘crats from H*ll. They multiply prodigiously, and cost far more than they will ever be worth. Worst part is they both attack the Constitutional Rights of the humans in Florida.
PS The correct name is now FloriDUH instead of the historic “Florida” due to the recent plague of enviro-socialism.
Small dent in the human population too.......
I'd assume a guy hunting from out of state..with a guide service..would have all the tags, license that he needed.
The issue is politics, I don’t know why you think his feelings are hurt, he seems very strong in his stand against the Democrats in his response.
I have hunting buddies in Wyoming, and they hunt lions with hounds. The loins of a mountain lion, I have been told, are very tasty, lighter colored meat like pork. It also has to be completely cooked like pork (as well as bear) due to parasites.
ROFLOL!!!
Range varies GREATLY....And depends on the terrain, and food supplies.
Could be 10 sq. miles, could be 500 sq. miles. And it depends on male or female.
You seem to have an agenda.......
Good luck!!
Yep. He married a fine-looking cougar, but drove her away... /g
Just did it earlier than you...in 1997. Saw the writing on the wall........
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