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SENATE TO VOTE ON INSLEE'S COMMISIONERS - NEED ACTION NOW!
« on: February 05, 2025, 11:45:31 AM »
Both WDFW Commissioner appointments requested to be returned by Ferguson are on today's Senate 12:30 floor calendar for the formal vote to release the appointments and return them to the Governor's office.

The R caucus is on board the vote.  The D's have been getting bombarded with emails in an effort to keep the two of them on the Commission.  Actual vote will take place sometime between 12:30 and circa 1:30, or so.

Please e-mail and/or call your Senator's office and urge them to deny Inslee's last minute appointments.

https://tvw.org/video/senate-floor-debate-february-5-2025021137/?eventID=2025021137
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Re: SENATE TO VOTE ON INSLEE'S COMMISIONERS - NEED ACTION NOW!
« Reply #1 on: February 05, 2025, 01:21:30 PM »
VICTORY!

Inslee's idiotic appointments have been returned to the Governor's office via a pro-forma vote.

#checkmate
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Re: SENATE TO VOTE ON INSLEE'S COMMISIONERS - NEED ACTION NOW!
« Reply #2 on: February 05, 2025, 01:24:25 PM »
Thank you for the updates
Good news👍
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Re: SENATE TO VOTE ON INSLEE'S COMMISIONERS - NEED ACTION NOW!
« Reply #3 on: February 05, 2025, 01:28:17 PM »
Good news.  So, what happens next?

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Re: SENATE TO VOTE ON INSLEE'S COMMISIONERS - NEED ACTION NOW!
« Reply #4 on: February 05, 2025, 01:54:50 PM »
 :tup:

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Re: SENATE TO VOTE ON INSLEE'S COMMISIONERS - NEED ACTION NOW!
« Reply #5 on: February 05, 2025, 02:11:37 PM »
I wonder how this happened?

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Re: SENATE TO VOTE ON INSLEE'S COMMISIONERS - NEED ACTION NOW!
« Reply #6 on: February 05, 2025, 02:28:02 PM »
Former Governor Jay Inslee’s controversial last-days appointments of two Washington Fish and Wildlife Commission members have been rescinded.


TIM RAGEN AND LYNN O’CONNOR. (WDFW)
Senate Gubernatorial Appointment bills for Tim Ragen, the citizen panel’s vice chair and former director of the US Marine Mammal Commission, and the recently appointed Lynn O’Connor of Ferry County, who replaced rancher Molly Linville of Douglas County, have been marked “returned to Governor” this afternoon.

That means Ferguson will have a chance to appoint two new members to the commission which oversees WDFW policies and hires and fires its director.

“I think this is a positive step in the right direction from the new governor,” said Ron Garner, state board president of Puget Sound Anglers. “Kudos to the Senate too! Big win for Washington State.”

Garner also credited strong tribal efforts to overturn Inslee’s decisions that came with just six days left in his third and final term and followed years of troubling appointments to the commission.

For the time being, it leaves the commission with seven members – Chair Barbara Baker of Olympia and Commissioners Jim Anderson of Buckley, John Lehmkuhl of Wenatchee, Woody Myers of Spokane, Steve Parker of Yakima, Melanie Rowland of Twisp and Lorna Smith of Port Townsend.

https://nwsportsmanmag.com/2-late-inslee-fish-and-wildlife-commission-appointments-rescinded/

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Re: SENATE TO VOTE ON INSLEE'S COMMISIONERS - NEED ACTION NOW!
« Reply #7 on: February 05, 2025, 02:34:45 PM »
With Inslee out and Ruth Musgrave no longer the Senior Policy Advisor on Natural Resources to the governor, who is the new policy advisor for Ferguson?

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Re: SENATE TO VOTE ON INSLEE'S COMMISIONERS - NEED ACTION NOW!
« Reply #8 on: February 05, 2025, 02:38:11 PM »
Former Governor Jay Inslee’s controversial last-days appointments of two Washington Fish and Wildlife Commission members have been rescinded.


TIM RAGEN AND LYNN O’CONNOR. (WDFW)
Senate Gubernatorial Appointment bills for Tim Ragen, the citizen panel’s vice chair and former director of the US Marine Mammal Commission, and the recently appointed Lynn O’Connor of Ferry County, who replaced rancher Molly Linville of Douglas County, have been marked “returned to Governor” this afternoon.

That means Ferguson will have a chance to appoint two new members to the commission which oversees WDFW policies and hires and fires its director.

“I think this is a positive step in the right direction from the new governor,” said Ron Garner, state board president of Puget Sound Anglers. “Kudos to the Senate too! Big win for Washington State.”

Garner also credited strong tribal efforts to overturn Inslee’s decisions that came with just six days left in his third and final term and followed years of troubling appointments to the commission.

For the time being, it leaves the commission with seven members – Chair Barbara Baker of Olympia and Commissioners Jim Anderson of Buckley, John Lehmkuhl of Wenatchee, Woody Myers of Spokane, Steve Parker of Yakima, Melanie Rowland of Twisp and Lorna Smith of Port Townsend.

https://nwsportsmanmag.com/2-late-inslee-fish-and-wildlife-commission-appointments-rescinded/

It's so beautiful.  Lots of strange bedfellows when it comes to politics in WA.

Garner is absolutely correct though...the tribes were clutch.  Some people ought to remember that the next time they badmouth them.  I for one appreciate them as an ally when it comes to fighting the anti-consumption nonsense.
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Re: SENATE TO VOTE ON INSLEE'S COMMISIONERS - NEED ACTION NOW!
« Reply #9 on: February 05, 2025, 02:47:06 PM »
It's a start....small win.
But.... where's Ferguson's alliance's lie...
Who's on his radar...

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Re: SENATE TO VOTE ON INSLEE'S COMMISIONERS - NEED ACTION NOW!
« Reply #10 on: February 05, 2025, 02:55:01 PM »
It's a start....small win.
But.... where's Ferguson's alliance's lie...
Who's on his radar...

How do you think the anti-consumption crowd gained control over the Commission?

Base hits.  Small wins.

Hunters and anglers would do well to keep that approach in mind and emulate it...early and often.
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Re: SENATE TO VOTE ON INSLEE'S COMMISIONERS - NEED ACTION NOW!
« Reply #11 on: February 05, 2025, 03:02:51 PM »
I've been saying for years that our only hope left in this state is the Tribes. Hopefully they've donated enough to his campaigns to truly have his ear on these appointments going forward...

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Re: SENATE TO VOTE ON INSLEE'S COMMISIONERS - NEED ACTION NOW!
« Reply #12 on: February 05, 2025, 03:15:16 PM »
I've been saying for years that our only hope left in this state is the Tribes. Hopefully they've donated enough to his campaigns to truly have his ear on these appointments going forward...

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Re: SENATE TO VOTE ON INSLEE'S COMMISIONERS - NEED ACTION NOW!
« Reply #13 on: February 05, 2025, 03:15:40 PM »
Anyone who's submitted an application for the Commission in the past, I encourage to reach out again. Ragen held a Western WA seat and O'Connor an Eastern WA seat. The new Senior Policy Advisor(s) to the Governor are below:

Owen Rowe
Senior Policy Advisor
Natural Resources
owen.rowe@gov.wa.gov

Joe Impecoven
Special Assistant
Outdoor Recreation
joe.impecoven@gov.wa.gov

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Re: SENATE TO VOTE ON INSLEE'S COMMISIONERS - NEED ACTION NOW!
« Reply #14 on: February 05, 2025, 05:25:45 PM »
Anyone who's submitted an application for the Commission in the past, I encourage to reach out again. Ragen held a Western WA seat and O'Connor an Eastern WA seat. The new Senior Policy Advisor(s) to the Governor are below:

Owen Rowe
Senior Policy Advisor
Natural Resources
owen.rowe@gov.wa.gov

Joe Impecoven
Special Assistant
Outdoor Recreation
joe.impecoven@gov.wa.gov

Please be respectful when contacting them.

We're trying to build relationships and lines of communication for the benefit of sustainable, truly science-based management of our wildlife and wild places. 
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