SFW needs carrots too and they'll dance for'em. It takes carrots, if that's the language were going to use, to build highway fences, enclose aspen groves, transplant deer, grow/buy upland game/ fly to Washington DC, and Show Low Arizona.
State of Utah/Salt Lake County reaches for carrots too, they could hire advertising firms, an PAY"EM OFF with public tax carrots that people from Vernal, St. George, Logan, etc pay into the State every year, to hold out in front of people to come to State Salt Lake City to go to a music concert, ski, see the museums. Why the hell would the Governor and the Major they do that, with your tax carrots.....................................what the hell does a bunch of skiers in Cottonwood Canyon do for Payson, Brigham, or Blanding?
Salt Lake County is using SFW as the carrot to bring sportsmen to Salt Lake City to spend their carrots. You think Salt Lake City and the Gateway Mall gives a sh!t if the women in town for the Expo gives a sh!t if she's from Cedar City, Utah or Cedar Rapids. Iowa? To the State and to Salt Lake Country and it's business it's no difference who brings the carrots to town, it's State resources being used by the State, to raise carrots, that all, eventually go back to the State in the form of taxes.
I know all about the North American Wildlife Conservation Act, love it, thank God for Roosevelt. Beyond that, we agree (most of us) wildlife belongs to the State. Another reason to be thankful. States protect, nurture, husband, grow, reduce, wildlife populations, it's there duty and responsibility. They can and will hire which ever advertising agency they choice to bring skiers to town and they will hire who they choice to bring sportsmen to town, and they pay with State resource according to the degree with which they do the job they've been hired to do. If the States want to use "it's" big game tags as the carrot to drive SFW or any other "agency" THEY WILL DO IT. If they want any other agency rather than SFW THEY WILL DO IT. It's the State's resource, be it tax revenue from you and I or big game tag that you and I collectively own, as citizens of the State in which we live.
You and I and WW know, these social media forums are just pissing in the wind and the wind's blowing toward each of us, me include, and all we're doing is getting piss all over ourselves.
Listen, this Utah Governor didn't start the Expo, he wasn't the first Governor to sign off on the concept and then sign the contract, so we can't say that he is the only idiot on Capital Hill, can we. (Personally I voted for Orlean Walker but in retrospect I really like Herbert and what he's done. I like him a hell of a lot more than I liked Huntsman, the thinly veiled Democrat (imo), that signed the contract for the first 5 years of the Expo.)
Here the bottom line friends and foes, "votes count". deerlove, you do get my point, yes?
If you want to end the Expo and settle for just the other great event, the International Sportsmen's Expo, your going to have to "un-elect" the majority of the Utah Legislature, and good luck with that. Like I said (when I missed your point deerlove), sportsmen will give their hard earned carrots to PETA, OR ANY BODY ELSE for a chance to go to the head of the line. Why do people bet on horses or on 21 or on a seven or an eleven, or buy a chance on an Idaho, non-raffle, big game tag. Could it be fricking, fracking.........human nature, to want to get to the head of the damn line? You find it confusing that businessmen, politicians, house wives, ghetto dwellers, millionaires don't get it? Come on, take off the veil for crying out loud. Actually, you folks do get it, ya just don't like the advertising agent the State hired.
Now.....I look in the mirror and I see what I think is a man of principal. What I'm say is, "I don't have a hell of a lot of trouble sleeping at night, for the things I've done or not done". I'm absolutely sure you, hawkeye, ww, hossburr, and others sleep just as peacefully. I watched a HBO movie called the Hatfields and McCoys a year or two ago. I still can't get the lessons I learned from that movie out of my head. It was, and I'm sure by design, a deadly lesson in the conflict between Principles and Pragmatics. One family, actual one man of "Principle at all cost" and one man of "Pragmatism above all" living together, and not so well I might add. As a principled man, or so I thought, I learned a lot about myself and human nature from that movie. It was a life changer for me and explained a hell of a lot of internal conflicts I've had to deal with, in the nature give and take, in my life. To get my point, you might take occasion to watch it.
Peace to your heart and mind deerlove, maybe someday we'll get to share a camp fire. Won't mind that a'tall.
DC
