Michigan Gubernatorial Candidates Agree
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Michigan Gubernatorial Candidates Agree





Bitter rivals campaigning for Michigan’s top job agree that sportsmen should be permitted to hunt the nation’s number one gamebird, the mourning dove.

Democratic Gov. Jennifer Granholm and republican challenger Dick DeVos have spent millions of dollars pointing out their respective differences on many issues facing Michigan voters. When it comes to Proposal 3, which will determine whether Michigan sportsmen will be permitted to hunt mourning doves, both candidates support a Yes vote on the issue.

In 2004, Gov. Granholm signed the law that made Michigan the 41st state to permit dove hunting. Soon after, anti-hunting organizations funded a paid signature drive to send the issue to the ballot. The governor continues to stand by her decision to permit the hunt, saying that she supported the law because she supports sound science. When asked if her statement meant that she supports a Yes vote on Proposal 3, her staff confirmed that is the case.

Dick DeVos has demonstrated support for Proposal 3 several times in recent weeks. A mailer to sportsmen from DeVos reads, “Supports the rights of Michigan sportsmen and women across the state to hunt mourning doves. Supports a Yes vote on the passage of Proposal 3.”

“This rare agreement from the candidates demonstrates that the emotional arguments of opponents of Proposal 3 have failed in their attempts to mislead Michigan voters and opinion leaders,” said Marc Somers, chairman of Citizens for Wildlife Conservation Committee. “Michigan hunters pump millions into the state’s economy, and once this hunt is firmly established, it will produce nearly $18 million every year into our state’s economy. We can’t allow an opportunity like this to get away just because a few extremists want to stop all hunting.”

Somers’ statement refers to a national anti-hunting group that has bankrolled the campaign to stop the dove hunt. The Humane Society of the United States, which has contributed nearly three-fourths of the funding to ban the hunt, touts opposition to all recreational hunting. The organization was also a major contributor to a ballot issue in 1996 that would have banned the most effective means of controlling Michigan’s black bear population.
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