Trib: Solon’s F&G scheme made public
In his editorial this morning, Opinion Editor Marty Trillhaase of the Lewiston Tribune comments:
Blackfoot Republican Steve Bair is serving his fifth term in the Idaho Senate.
He’s chairman of the Resources and Environment Committee.
And on that panel sit some of Idaho’s more conservative Republicans - Jeff Siddoway of Terreton, Lee Heider of Twin Falls, Sheryl Nuxoll of Cottonwood, Clifford Bayer and Marv Hagedorn, both of Meridian.
Is it any wonder Bair had the air of a self-confident power broker last year while he was emailing back and forth with Wild Sheep Foundation Chairman — and Premier Technology co-founder — Doug Sayer of Pocatello?
Sayer was co-author of a 2010 bill suggesting the Idaho Fish and Game Commission auction off a dozen of Idaho’s choicest hunting opportunities to the highest bidders. Mindful of Idaho’s 1938 initiative-inspired egalitarian approach to wildlife management, Fish and Game declined.
So Sayer and Bair hatched a plan to compel Fish and Game to engage in the auctions. More here.
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