Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire 287,000-plus Californians vote for Leland Yee.

Sal, you are gonna make yourself sick continuing to read the news there. If I were still there and could not leave for many good reasons I would live like a hermit and not read a bit of media. This from one that truly enjoyed growing up there on the Sacramento Delta from 1961 - 1995. I do feel for you.

Thank you Ed, I appreciate your compassion.

I've lived here in California all my life and used to defend it from the army of California haters out there that assault us verbally every day on these outdoor message boards.
I've had tremendous fishing and hunting all of my life, probably better than a lot who live in the so called "outdoor destination states"
I've lived a good,rural life living on a cattle ranch for some time and now on a piece of ground in the hills that is surrounded with wildlife and pretty decent minded rural valued folks.

I say "used to defend California" as in past tense now, when I first joined here I tried to show that it was wrong to generalize the entire state in a way that so many others view California.
I've watched people like us (hunters, ranchers, trappers, houndsmen, shooters) come under attack for so many years now, and things are rapidly getting worse if you monitor what's on the agenda.

I watched as the public voted away our ability to hunt mountain lions.

I watched as the power of the majority took away our trapping.

I watched as the left leaning majority rallied behind the banning of hound hunting for bears and bobcats.

I shook my head as they banned the hunting of game with lead bullets.

I watched the huge petition drives to ban the coyote hunting contest in Adin that I enjoyed over the years.
(That ban is in the works right now.)

Now they are protecting wolves that technically don't even live here yet.
How ya think that's going to affect hooved ungulates in this state?

Then there are the ridiculously restrictive gun laws and the strangulating rules and regulations of every kind, Hell, in 2014 alone over 800 new laws were put on the books......When T.F. is it ever going to end?

Truth is it's not.

California is run by the large population centers that are some of the most liberal minded in the entire country, they set the rules, they dictate what you can or cannot do, even in the remote regions of this huge state.
Most conservative people b.i.t.c.h, piss and moan about California's outrageously liberal politicians, you know, Feinstein, Pelosi, Boxer, Brown, (and his underling who is the worst you could possibly imagine if you are a hunter) lieutenant Governor Gavin Newsome, just to mention a few.
The BIGGER problem is the fact that these cretins continue to get re-elected year after year after year and the reason they do is because they ARE EXACTLY what the majority of citizens in this state WANT!
It's the overwhelming population and their urban liberal culture that is the problem more than the present cast of figure heads in office, if it weren't that bunch I mentioned above, it would be a list of different names with the same beliefs and values.

I know how good rural California is, from the high sage of Modoc County to the rugged Trinity Alps to , to the beautiful Sierra Nevada mountains. I've thoroughly enjoyed the incredible salmon and steelhead fishing, exceptional waterfowling and upland gamebird hunting and I've always had plenty of bucks to look at on over the counter tags, but us conservative rural types are outnumbered so vastly that our tiny voices simply don't matter any more.

I have a beautiful home in the country, that physically lets me escape the madness of the Bay Area rat race and have spent a lifetime in many of the best regions of the state.
Maybe I read too much news or follow too much politics, but I'm truly at wits end.

Record breaking turnout... less than 15% (14.76%) of registered voters!

The majority of voters FIGURED all of the races were a foregone conclusion... so no need to vote!

And even though this Leland scandal was after a year long investigation... it has only recently come to a head and hadn't gotten much press!

Still people in his area should have known about it all for quite awhile!


Phil