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Show rights. According to Mr. Richard Wilkins, Constitutional Law Professor at Brigham Young University, Proposition 5 does not stop any citizens right to use an initiative, nor does it discriminate against any Utah citizen. It applies an equal standard to everyone! VOTE FOR PROPOSITION 5. Support the wildlife FOR heritage of generations of Utahns before us. Stand-u- p Protect freedoms. Defend Utah values. your rights and your natural resources from a Washington, D.C. agenda. Senator Leonard M. Blackham Arguments For VOTE FOR PROPOSITION 5 and keep our wildlife management system just the way it is. When you VOTE FOR PROPOSITION 5 you protect Utahs wildlife management system, and preserve your wildlife for all time. A VOTE FOR wildlife 5 keeps in place a sound PROPOSITION management system that has one of the most extensive public participation processes in the country. Over the last 75 years, citizens ideas have been blended with science by trained biologists to effectively balance the needs of all wildlife with Rebuttal To available habitat and human population growth. animal 5 because VOTE FOR PROPOSITION extremists groups have been pushing a Washington, D.C., liberal agenda using ballot initiatives to take over wildlife management systems throughout the western states. Look at their history of taking away wildlife management practices from wildlife experts: 1990 California, 1990 Arizona, 1992 Colorado, 1992 Arizona, 1994 Oregon, 1996 California, 1996 Colorado, 1996 Oregon, 1996 Washington, and 1996 Idaho. Proposition 5 will restrict your voting rights. A vote of a minority 13 1 will be sufficient to veto the will of the majority. Supporters of Proposition 5 argue that they must remove your right to vote on wildlife issues because of the threat of a ballot initiative affecting wildlife management. No such initiative has ever been attempted in Utah, nor is one anticipated. Now, they are threatening Utah! VOTE FOR PROPOSITION 5 so the Humane Society of the United States knows Utahns want them to stay in Washington, D.C.,...the Humane Society of the United States will be in Salt Lake City on Tuesday to begin planning the (Salt Lake Tribune. (wildlife ballot initiative) campaign. Proposition 5 argues that you, the voter, are not intelligent enough to decide these issues for yourself. Despite what proponents of Proposition 5 have said, Washington bureaucrats and politicians cant introduce a ballot initiative in any state. Proponents of Proposition 5 decry the use of outside January 10, 1997) VOTE FOR PROPOSITION 5 because local animal extremists are threatening to take management of Utahs wildlife into their own hands; The mission of the Utah Cougar Coalition is to advance the cause of predator protection. ..by taking our cause directly to the citizens of Utah (Cougar Coalition Mission by means of an initiative. Statement. Sept. 8, 1996); and When we do it (run an money to pursue political agendas in our state, yet a majority of the money to support this measure has come from outside Utah. We should not tamper with the constitution to please an special interest. is passed, your right to vote on transportaor tion, taxes, your childrens education could be next. Vote NO on Proposition 5! Members of both political parties, wildlife biologists, and professors of law, believe that Proposition 5 is a bad idea for all Utahns. Please join them by voting NO on Proposition 5. If Proposition 5 initiative), we want to be successful. (Utah Animal Rights Tribune. January 10, 1997). Alliance, Salt VOTE FOR PROPOSITION 5 so Division of Wildlife Resources Director John Kimball can work with wildlife experts and Utah citizens. Mr. Kimball hopes all citizens will establish a dialogue about wildlife management using the current wildlife management process of regional wildlife advisory councils, not the ballot box. (Salt Lake Tribune. Ike Norma Matheson Dr. Sam Zeveloff Zoology Professor, January 10, 1997) VOTE FOR PROPOSITION 5 so your wildlife is managed using science and facts, not emotion and political campaigns run by extremist groups like PETA that exclaim, fish have lives and should be left alone. PETA wants to ban all fishing in national parks calling it a violent process. Our Congressman Merrill Cook Dr. Sam Rushforth Botany Professor, BYU Dr. (PETAs) position is fishing is inherently cruel. (PETAs coordinator - Provo Daily Herald. 2141998). A VOTE FOR PROPOSITION 5 is a vote for equal protection and full rights. It does not favor nor harm anyones Barrie Gilbert Zoology Professor, USU WSU Lily Eskelsen Congressional Candidate Dr. Ed Firmage Professor of Law Dr. Dinah Davidson Ecology Professor, U of U anti-fishi- ng State Senator Millie Peterson 35 State Senator Robert Steiner |