Someone to keep an eye on...

[cynatnite]

This guy is looking to run for govenor and some of how he talks in this article unsettles me.



snip:
But a month later, about 20 of the elk are dead, shot on sight under an emergency executive order from Gov. Jim Risch. About 40 have been recaptured and the rest are roaming the alfalfa fields and forest slopes on the fringe of Yellowstone National Park, home to the nation's largest herd of wild elk.

Risch, joined by wildlife officials, says Rammell's elk will pollute the native gene pool and spread disease. Rammell, a veterinarian who made a career of breeding trophy bull elk for wealthy hunters and a sideshow of fighting the government, says he sold his farm and his elk and would like to run against Risch for public office in four years on a campaign against government abuses.

snip:
In 2002, he sparred with the state Department of Agriculture over hefty fines assessed against him for failing to apply blaze-orange ear tags that identify elk as domestic.

Inspectors also said he improperly maintained protective fencing on a different elk ranch and protested a law requiring testing for the incurable chronic wasting disease.

Rammell — at times representing himself in court — took his ear-tagging case all the way to the state Supreme Court, where he lost.

Still, driving across the state in his pickup, he successfully lobbied enough lawmakers in Boise to pass a law capping how much state agencies can fine violators. The bill relieved Rammell of hundreds of thousands of dollars in fines he had accrued.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060924/ap_on_re_us/escaped_elk

[CAG]

1. Just remind him not to invite the Cheneyminator to an elk-shoot anytime

soon.
:-)

[cynatnite]

2. Ashton, ID isn't far from Jackson Hole, WY...

Cheney may have hunted in one of the pens with an elk.