Non-resident outfitter license (MT) Bill is up for hearing 2/2/2021 (SB 143)

[MTGomer]

Mac Minard says opponents are employing Georgia election tactics

 

[Big Fin]

Interesting to watch this. Very interesting.

 

[The Hedgehog]

How do outfitters in other states book clients that have to draw? Sounds like a LOT of sniveling..

 

[Ben Lamb]

Hey it's @Eric Albus at the podium!

 

[SAJ-99]

I see a lot of "If I say all the arguments are invalid IT MAKES THEM INVALID." I guess proof died a long time ago.

 

[Bullbrl]

I'm seriously getting upset with the comments about wanting to make sure guides can have guaranteed clients and business....I'm a small business owner and I'd love to have that! What horses*t

 

[winmag]

This is painful to watch as a hunter. This is even more painful to watch as a former guide. Provide a superior service and guides/outfitters will have no trouble getting clients, its just that simple.

I'm sure this has been said before on this thread, but I would take MOGA far more seriously if they would just say hey, we can't make it on our own for xyz reasons, we want a SUBSIDY to stay in business, and us staying in business would be good for abc reasons. Anything other than that is just rhetoric and lies.

 

[HSi-ESi]

As much as I like to make sausage, it's tough to watch this sausage made.

 

[winmag]

From the way the proponents of this bill are talking, one would think that outfitting would be totally eliminated from the state of Montana unless this bill passes. What a joke.

 

[Schaaf]

Mac Minard says opponents are employing Georgia election tactics

Be easy on the fella he woke up early this morning for some PR on the forum

 

[d-edward]

Is it fair to say the strategy is to inflate perceived support for the bill by packing the hearing with all available outfitters or guides to testify in support? I don't purport to know where everyone in MT stands on this bill, but to a casual onlooker...one might think this is a slam dunk to pass the bill, no?

 

[Marshian]

I like how all these outfitters talk about how low their client numbers were in 2020. As if a little thing called Covid maybe had nothing to do with that!!

 

[ChaosOneZero]

Interesting how Mr Ellis, a proponent outfitter/guide, referred to it as "our bill."

 

[Dfowler08x]

It honestly makes me sick to my stomach watching this! Outfitter welfare is all it’s about!

 

[ChaosOneZero]

I'm seriously getting upset with the comments about wanting to make sure guides can have guaranteed clients and business....I'm a small business owner and I'd love to have that! What horses*t

this. government intervention to provide, or guarantee, clients/customers is a subsidy. call it what it is...

 

[Gerald Martin]

Loving the play by play. Stuck with one bar of cell service and unable to watch. Probably just as well.

 

[MTelkHuntress]

The outfitter called us Cyberland people.... at least we are informed cyberland people

The whole loss of block management lands doesnt make sense to me. I'm not sure where they get that and how this bill would improve the situation.

Interesting arguments made.

 

[ChaosOneZero]

Loving the play by play. Stuck with one bar of cell service and unable to watch. Probably just as well.

you're not missing much...just a MOGA-orchestrated train of folks coming to the podium, hat in hand (literally).

 

[Ben Lamb]

The outfitter called us Cyberland people.... at least we are informed cyberland people

The whole loss of block management lands doesnt make sense to me. I'm not sure where they get that and how this bill would improve the situation.

Interesting arguments made.

A large number of the 1 million went into public ownership through the MT legacy project & other timberland transfers that opened up land permanently. That's the biggest chunk.

Literally, block went down because public access went up.

 

[Marshian]

Senator Butch Gillespie of senate district 9 supports the bill for those in that district