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Originally Posted by MathGeek
Writing letters is more my style, and more effective than personal appearances in most cases.
We shut down the tripletail limit with a letter writing effort. The next step of progress in red snapper is having congress recognize LAs new boundary.
More real progress is likely exerting pressure on the relevant legislators than the wildlife commission. Once a good written case is framed, it can be applied to both legislators and commission members with much less manpower than showing up at meetings.
Big gov't types probably prefer citizens waste their efforts showing up at meetings because it is much less effective at bounding expansions of gov't power.
Oh yeah, the meeting is not tomorrow, it's Thursday. Big gov't types especially like when concerned citizens show up on the wrong day.
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Negative, there never was a tripletail limit, can't shut down something that never happened.
Those tripletail threads were one of those 'sky is falling' things that everyone gets up in arms about but they never happen. If you look through the tripletail threads you will see a common theme of people sounding alarms and speculating what 'they heard' Almost like one of those chain emails you get and people keep on forwarding them on even though they aren't true.
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Big gov't types probably prefer citizens waste their efforts showing up at meetings because it is much less effective at bounding expansions of gov't power.[/QUOTE]
actually, the 'big gov't types' have been asking for public discussion and have meetings all the time all over the state to discuss things, yet people do NOT show up. People will gripe about it on message boards and when its time to put up or shut up, they don't show. After awhile, they realize the meetings are a waste of time and money if no one is going to show.
Public red snapper meetings have been held all over and when they are mentioned on this site, no one responds. Do a search on red snapper on this site, see how many views to those threads there are, and how many people actually responded (its low, real low)