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The new N.J. budget calls for $2 million Division of Fish and Wildlife money (which is paid for by your licenses) to be taken away and given to the Parks Department.
This is illegal and sets a bad precedent.
The exact details from the state fedreation are below.
Please contact the people on the list ASAP and tell them to stop this.
Sincerely,
Ed Mayer
Warren County Federation of Sportsmen
NEW JERSEY STATE FEDERATION OF SPORTSMEN’S CLUBS
LEGISLATIVE ALERT
2005 STATE BUDGET –ILLEGAL Transfer of
$2 Million Dollars from Fish & Wildlife Funds to Parks & Forests
One of the principal reasons for the success of New Jersey’s Wildlife Management Programs has been the stable funding of the NJ Division of Fish & Wildlife provided by NJ sportsmen through the Hunters and Anglers Fund. Since its inception the law governing the use of this fund, which is derived primarily from sportsmen’s annual license fees and Federal excise taxes on sporting arms and ammunition, states that moneys in this fund are DEDICATED, and are to be used ONLY for wildlife related purposes by the NJ Division of Fish & Wildlife.
The 2005 State Budget (see pg. #61, line 6 & 7) recently signed into law by Governor McGreevey would, for the first time ever, change the way the fund is administered, by illegally removing $2 million dollars from the Division of Fish & Wildlife’s “Hunters and Anglers Fund”, and transferring it to the Division of Parks and Forests. This illegal transfer would have drastic repercussions for fish & wildlife management in our State, not the least of which will be an additional loss of over $4.2 million dollars annually from Federal Aid to Wildlife fundi ng received by New Jersey.
THIS ILLEGAL FUNDING TRANSFER MUST NOT BE ALLOWED TO TAKE PLACE.
The following should be CONTACTED IMMEDIATELY requesting the removal of this illegal action from the 2005 New Jersey State Budget Even if you never before made legislative phone calls - make these.
Governor James E. McGreevey – ph. (609) 292-6000
Commissioner Bradley Campbell – ph. (609) 292-2885
Your local Senators and Assemblypersons
Members of the Joint Budget Oversight Committee
Sen. Wayne R. Bryant, ph. (856)757-0552
Sen. Bernard F. Kenny, ph. (201) 653-1466
Sen. Leonard Lance, ph. (908) 788-6900
Assemblyperson Louis D Greenwald, ph. (856) 783-0444
Assemblyperson Joseph R. Malone, ph. (609) 298-6250
Assemblyperson Bonnie Watson-Coleman ph. (609) 292-0500
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fishkopp Today at 06:18 PM
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You can bet your a$$ they won't cut the trout programs . So why doesn't every body take a couple of minutes and give these yahoos a call . Let 'em know how you feel .
I'll be starting the phone calls tomorrow
Mike Kopp
PS wouldn't suck if they cut the muskie programs ?
Maybe we should make some calls too.Bob Jones
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4:37 pm
March 22, 2004
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Well, that's a tree hugging Liberal for ya. How about having them hugging a couple of muskies!
DL
DL
10:35 pm
are there web sites for these guys that we could flood with e-mails???
1:25 am
March 19, 2004
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I received an update on this subject today Here it is;
I spoke with a representative from Sen. Lance's office today. She said the state budget item calling for money to be taken from the Division of Fish and Wildlife (pg. #61, lines 6&7) will be removed during the Joint Budget Oversight committee meeting on July 22.
Hopefully this happens, and the dedicated funds from our license fees will be safe for the time being.
Sincerely,
Ed Mayer
Warren County Federation of Sportsmen
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