Originally Posted by
J Pike
BT. quit trying to spin #'s! What % of their electorate do you think actually care about the deer wars at all?
For example we have 13 million residents in PA. and I promise you less than 15% of us even think about the whitetail deer unless they happen to be driving down the road and see one feeding in a field etc. and say aw look at bambi, aint it cute!! I hate to break it to you but 85% of us could care less either way about this subject and it never even crosses their mind. Why? Because this subject doesnt effect or CONCERN them either way in their daily lives and they have far greater things that CONCERN them each and every minute of every day that they do care about and that does effect them and their families. Pike
I'm not spinning anything. It's not just hunters who care about deer numbers. It's farmers, it's the timber industry, it's homeowners, drivers and more. But what you say does have some merit. The folks who really dont care are the ones where the risks of politics lie.
Consider how most of our elections are decided. Not by the right or the left. Those folks have made up their mind long before most candidates present themselves. Most elections are decided by those folks in the middle without strong principles on either side. That group is the most easily swayed and I daresay often the most uninformed. So lets say that the PGC starts taking public money and the legislature decides to take over game management decisions. Then some well funded group gets the general public in an uproar over lets say, the fact that cubs are legal in bear season. Next thing we know our bear season goes the way of Jersey's. Far fetched? maybe. But would you have believed we'd have the crowd we now have in DC if someone had predicted it 5 years ago?