Another conversation with himself.
Straight talk my ASS! You have not tried to defeat the bill?
First off, you have not tried to SUPPORT the bill! Being negative on the topic is getting old Anthony, as witnessed by the vast majority of the responses to your "Q&A" sessions as well as the NJOA press releases.
Second, a call to Assemblyman Scott Rumana's office (he was an original sponsor of the Assembly Registry bill and voted for it the first time) as to why he removed his name as a sponsor AND voted AGAINST the bill this last time revealed that he both voted AGAINST the bill the second time around AND sent a letter to the governor asking him to VETO the bill based on conversations with (as a result of calls FROM) the NJOA.
Is he lying or are you Anthony?
Now we know why you do not respond on websites. You post your propaganda, ask for money for the NJOA at the end of your press release (when it is an NJOA press release) and then disappear.
NJOA has NEVER publicly supported the free registry and has LOBBIED AGAINST IT in private, period.
NJOA HAS ONLY PRODUCED NEGATIVE PUBLICITY ON THE BILL in the guise of "straight talk" and has NEVER published a release supporting the bill IN ANY WAY, SHAPE OR FORM!
FIVE DIFFERENT GROUPS left the NJOA "talks" on funding the division before they were done (I was one of them by the way) as a direct result of it being a license/fee based discussion for a registry, period. We saw it for the joke it was and wasted n more of our time with it.
Let's look at some of the other points you have made in your Q&A. You and NJOA have pooh poohed a license plate and lottery to raise funds. Now the Federation, which sits on the board of NJOA, sent a joint letter with ENSP to the Governor asking him not to sign the bill.
According to the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP), the Endangered and Nongame Species Program's (ENSP) mission is to “actively conserve New Jersey's biological diversity by maintaining and enhancing endangered, threatened and nongame wildlife populations within healthy, functioning ecosystems.” The ENSP is responsible for the protection and management of nearly 500 wildlife species found in the Garden State, including the 73 species currently listed as endangered or threatened.
The program is funded almost entirely by donations from the sale of Conserve Wildlife License Plates, grants and the state income tax check-off, as well as support from the Conserve Wildlife Foundation.
Learn more at
http://www.state.nj.us/dep/fgw/ensphome.htm
And be sure to check out the Conserve Wildlife Foundation’s trustees at
http://www.conservewildlifenj.org/about/trustees/
I'll ask again what I asked elsewhere, is NJOA lobbying for anglers in Trenton or lobbying Anglers FOR Trenton?
Are you talking down a license plate and tax checkoff (both of which have been proposed and were discussed at the NJOA license love fests I attended) because they are no good or perhaps because they would compete with the ENSP funds?
Why do you seem to run away from anything that the Division has not put its seal of approval on Anthony? Does the fact that more than one inland game species group raises funds through the same means suggested (by almost everyone but NJOA and the groups that make up its Board) be the reason NJOA does not support ANY of those options?
Not publicly speaking against something does NOT mean you publicly support something. To steal the line from Rush, "If you choose not to decide you still have made a choice."
More to follow. SInce I am talking to myself because ANthony does not see fit to respond (I am a volunteer too and do not get paid ONE DIME for the work I do on behalf of SSFFF, United Boatmen or any other organization) I'll keep you guys up to date with the TRUTH, and I will actually respond to questions too :
