Howard Dean wants to ban atv riding?

[Ten Bears]

I got this from another forum...

As unsavory is it may be to many of us, it's my experience that it
really does matter that we as riders participate in politics. So as we
move toward November 2004, it is important to ask any given local or
national candidate how pro- or anti-OHV he or she is.
That said, I will always steer clear of telling you how to think, but
please do consider the following evidence and make your own decisions:

On former VT Governor, Dr. Howard Dean, Democratic nomination contestant
for Pres.-`04, VT OHV advocate Todd Sheinfeld had this to say:
"...I had several conversations with Howard Dean over the years, one on
[VT radio program] Switchboard many years ago. In that exchange, the
former Governor expressed to me that he did not like, nor see any use
for, ATVs and the fact that they are not allowed on public land in VT
(whether federal or state) was a great accomplishment. He further told
me that if he, as Governor, could outlaw ATV use on private land he
would do it in a second..."
[From Todd's article at
http://www.vtvasa.org/sitebuildercontent/s.../myjourneytotruenorth.pdf

Todd also directs us to the very telling paragraph copied below from the
"LA Weekly." (Full article: "The Doctor is In: Rolling with
people-powered Howard Dean..." see
http://www.laweekly.com/ink/03/41/features-wolf.php

[On the recent "preservation" in Vermont of 133,000 acres of the former
Champion Paper Company lands, Jamie Wolf wrote:]
"[Dean] and his team used the NRA, he says, to neutralize the most
ardent property-rights Republicans in the legislature. They then went to
the snowmobilers and explained that although there would be a wilderness
area off-limits to them, there would be other areas they could utilize.
They used that concession, he goes on, to get the snowmobilers' help in
supporting the exclusion of ATVs: "You can't compromise with ATVers
under any circumstances, they just do too much damage to the land..." In
other words, Dean says, you assemble the broadest coalition possible and
then parcel out something for everybody. "Now, it can't be everybody,
because there's always those on the extreme edge of the right who want
to clear-cut everything, that's their idea of sustainable timbering..."
But in general, he says, you work with all the stakeholders, and then if
one element of the coalition starts to defect, if the snowmobilers, say,
try to link up with the ATVers, which they sometimes threaten to do,
"you put the leverage on. You say, 'If it's a choice between letting the
ATVs in or keeping the snowmobile people out - sorry, we'll see you
later.' And that brings the snowmobilers back to the table...

No wonder this clown is popular with the GRINNER/BUZZ/IT crowd.

 

[JohnSWA]

Stick a fork in Dean. He's done!

 

[BHR]

Ten,

Who's Howard Dean? I never heard of him.

Paul

 

[JoseCuervo]

Paul,

You wouldn't support Dean, for this position alone?

Did you ever come up with any reasons you don't like Dean, besides the Vermont-Ithica connection?

 

[pawclaws]

With respect to"politics" Dean's views are very similar to Kerry's; ergo, "Whatever you would like to hear at this point in time." With respect to "ATVs and Snowmobiles", they certainly have their place in recreation; the problem is finding it! With respect to "banning" anything on "private land" hang around another 100 years; there won't be any to worry about anyway!

 

[Ithaca 37]

I'd say Dean probably has the best ATV position of any candidates. In fact, I doubt any of the others even know anything about ATVs.