As you may recall, a dirty scheme to enrich a few wealthy landowners while risking destruction of North Carolina’s deer population through “Chronic Wasting Disease” (CWD) – and with it our hunting tradition – is being bankrolled by retired Food Lion CEO Tom E. Smith (now the largest deer farmer in the state) and foisted on you by Agriculture Commissioner STEVE TROXLER, Senator BRENT JACKSON (R-Duplin, Johnston, Sampson), and Representative ROGER WEST (R-Cherokee, Clay, Graham, Macon).
To give you a feel for the cronyism involved, Smith is a friend and big-dollar donor to Troxler, Jackson is a longtime buddy and frequent henchman for the commissioner, and West represents a district near the “canned” hunting preserve described below. The Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, on whose reservation the hunting preserve exists, is West’s top donor to the tune of $6,000.
Big bucks for big bucks
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Some of my greatest memories are of fishing in the Oconoluftee River in the forties with Cherokee Amie Bradley, who, with a fifteen foot cane pole, full length gut leader, and bedraggled gray wet fly outfished all six of us city folks.
ReplyDeleteSo I will not condemn either the Eastern or Western genocidally decimated First Peoples for selling out to white greed in casinos and game farms. The Indians don't elect the sorry politicians-we do.
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