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Northeast Wisconsin
In case you aren't a member of NADeFA - this is important. If they are successful they will be coming to your state next.
Many of you will remember that the producers in my home state of North Dakota are in a battle to save their high fence hunting industry. Our opposition was successful this year in collecting enough signatures to allow for a ballot measure, just like in Montana, to try and shut down the hunt ranch industry. Steve Porter will be visiting five schools and communities in North Dakota this week. Besides educating our youth and teachers, Steve has been answering a lot of question from the media on "Measure #2". He has done an excellent job of educating them, so I am hopeful our industry will be looked at in a better light as the political editorials start heating up before the election on November 2nd. He is visiting some key parts of the state, so I am hoping that when the students go home and tell their parents of the exciting day they had at school and the positives of the deer industry, that will stick in the back of their minds when they go to the polls on November 2nd.
The election on November 2nd is significant for the whole industry not just North Dakota. If they can be successful in a state that still has a strong rural influence on the ballot box, then they shouldn't have a problem in more urban states. If they are successful in enough states then a Bill on the Federal level could follow, which would shut down the entire hunt ranch industry. Our goal is not only to win but to win by a super majority to send a message across this country that our industry has the public's support. The proposed budget for this campaign is $150,000 and that doesn't even include any television time as we could not afford the rates. The radio buy for the last three weeks going into the election cost $70,000, the rest of the budget goes to paid newspaper advertisement, yard/rural signs, billboards in the major cities and along the interstate, website and advertising on ND internet hunting forums. The game farm industry is small in North Dakota, but we have been getting support from other state and national industry associations. To reach our goal in North Dakota we could use individual support from all of North America. If you would like to make a personal contribution, please send whatever you can afford to Citizens to Protect ND Property Rights, PO Box 302, Turtle Lake, North Dakota 58575 (please make checks payable to Citizens to Protect ND Property Rights or CPNDPR). If you would like to charge your contribution on a credit card, please contact me directly for details.
Shawn Schafer
Cell: 651-212-1315
Office: 701-448-2002
Many of you will remember that the producers in my home state of North Dakota are in a battle to save their high fence hunting industry. Our opposition was successful this year in collecting enough signatures to allow for a ballot measure, just like in Montana, to try and shut down the hunt ranch industry. Steve Porter will be visiting five schools and communities in North Dakota this week. Besides educating our youth and teachers, Steve has been answering a lot of question from the media on "Measure #2". He has done an excellent job of educating them, so I am hopeful our industry will be looked at in a better light as the political editorials start heating up before the election on November 2nd. He is visiting some key parts of the state, so I am hoping that when the students go home and tell their parents of the exciting day they had at school and the positives of the deer industry, that will stick in the back of their minds when they go to the polls on November 2nd.
The election on November 2nd is significant for the whole industry not just North Dakota. If they can be successful in a state that still has a strong rural influence on the ballot box, then they shouldn't have a problem in more urban states. If they are successful in enough states then a Bill on the Federal level could follow, which would shut down the entire hunt ranch industry. Our goal is not only to win but to win by a super majority to send a message across this country that our industry has the public's support. The proposed budget for this campaign is $150,000 and that doesn't even include any television time as we could not afford the rates. The radio buy for the last three weeks going into the election cost $70,000, the rest of the budget goes to paid newspaper advertisement, yard/rural signs, billboards in the major cities and along the interstate, website and advertising on ND internet hunting forums. The game farm industry is small in North Dakota, but we have been getting support from other state and national industry associations. To reach our goal in North Dakota we could use individual support from all of North America. If you would like to make a personal contribution, please send whatever you can afford to Citizens to Protect ND Property Rights, PO Box 302, Turtle Lake, North Dakota 58575 (please make checks payable to Citizens to Protect ND Property Rights or CPNDPR). If you would like to charge your contribution on a credit card, please contact me directly for details.
Shawn Schafer
Cell: 651-212-1315
Office: 701-448-2002
