Exposing Rick Berman and Will Coogin's Green Decoy Project
Today,
on Voices of Montana, Sen. Jennifer Fielder
and Sen. Jedediah Hinkle were guests, speaking
about SB 236. Towards
the end of the first segment, 28:43 mark,
Hinkle says,
“Senate Bill 236, I would just to let your listeners know out there, One thing I want to warn everyone of, be careful the emails you get, because there's a lot of Green Decoy groups out there, who are really just shills, they may sound like sportsmen, they may advocate that they are sportsmen...” (the announcer cuts in) “Jedediah, I have been tricked myself. Make sure you go to greendecoys.com, check out whose who."
For
those that may not know, some of us have been
watching and researching a couple of players
in this game for years on Hunt Talk - Rick
Berman and Will Coggin (transfer federal
public lands to states), both from Washington
D. C. In fact, their orchestration of
slandering and attacking average hunter/angler
groups in the western states became so large,
as well as their other activities, journalists
and organizations began investigating them.
There is now a whole website dedicated to
exposing Rick Berman's organization and the
many fronts he operates on Rick Berman
Exposed. SourceWatch
also has a wiki page.
“Richard
'Rick' Berman is a longtime Washington, D.C.
public relations specialist whose lobbying and
consulting firm, Berman and Company, Inc.,
advocates for special interests and powerful
industries. Berman and Co. wages deceptive
campaigns against industry foes including
labor unions; public-health advocates; and
consumer, safety, animal welfare, and
environmental groups.”
One
of his front group projects is Green Decoys.
“Green Decoys is a project of the Center for
Organizational Research and Education that
claims several sportsmen, hunting, and fishing
groups are actually fronts for
environmentalists.”
If
you go to their Green Decoy site, you will see
a video with Montana's Land Tawney on it.
Green Decoys wants to fearmonger your support
by stating that these hunting/angling groups
are green decoy's because they are sportsmen
in name only, targeting Backcountry Hunters
& Anglers, Trout Unlimited and TRCP. In
Montana they target local groups like Montana
Sportsmen Alliance, Montana Hunters &
Anglers, and Montana Wildlife Federation. In
true McCarthyism style they attack any groups
grant funding and associations. Hell, they
even have me listed on the MSA section. “MSA’s
website was designed and is maintained by
Kathryn QannaYahu. QannaYahu is a member of
Backcountry Hunters & Anglers, a Green
Decoy, and the Public Land/Water Access
Association, an anti-property rights
environmental group.”
Yes,
as a public trust advocate, I work with MSA,
Helena Hunters & Anglers, quite a number
of other grassroots hunting/angling groups in
MT; am a BHA, MT Trout Unlimited and PLWA
member and am damn proud of it!
Recently,
in a classic psychological projection, one of
the bull$h*t green decoy originators, working
for Berman from Washington D.C., Will
Coggin (public land transfer), who likes
to blanket western states with disparaging
letters to the editor about our local groups,
took to emailing our MT legislators,
stating, “There are several groups active in
the state who claim to represent sportsmen.
But our research points to these groups simply
being camouflage for radical
environmentalists.”
Here
is a screenshot below.
The
fact that one of our Montana Senators, Sen.
Hinkle has thrown in with the likes of Berman
and Coggin, publicly brought up “Green
Decoys”, in relation to SB 236, speaks volumes
to me, as if I wasn't already convinced to
oppose it.
Sen. Hinkle owes
the conservation hunters and anglers of
Montana an apology! Sen.Jedediah.Hinkle@mt.gov if you are so inclined to let him know.
SB
236 has little to do with any of us being able
to hunt and more about the big corporations
funding this nationwide “rights” movement, to
guarantee themselves a market and
fearmongering based sales.
Don't
be deceived by Hinkle's publicly maligning
tactic against a number of Montana's
grassroots hunting/angling groups.
See
SB 236 for what it is.
Constitutional Amendment
SB 236 - Oppose - Passed the Senate 30 to 20, on the 28th, has a hearing before House Judiciary 4/3. Fielder's Constitutional referendum to safeguard right to hunt, fish, and trap wildlife. Current text. Various suggested text amendments have been proposed, from various sportsmens groups and the Sportsmens Caucus group, but nothing agreed on by all. Which speaks to me, that this bill (or one similar), which affects our Constitution, needs much more work and vetting before going before the legislature in such a rushed manner this year. (reported on 2/15)
Please email opposition to Representatives before 4/3, addresses below.
_________________________
Legislative call number 444-4800
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