Liz Cheney and duck hunting licenses

[GenuineRisk]

So Liz Cheney illegally applied for a duck hunting license in Wyoming. She paid the fine, but blamed the clerk for not informing her of the residency requirement (apparently it's not the responsibility of the person applying to know the laws). Some conservative voters are citing this as a reason they may not vote for her.
http://news.yahoo.com/liz-cheney-wel...025116372.html

It made me remember a pretty funny piece the late great Molly Ivins did about an Enron appointee in Texas:

Here's how we make progress in Texas. Two summers ago, Governor Goodhair Perry (the man has a head of hair every Texan can be proud of, regardless of party) appointed an Enron executive to the Public Utilities Commission. The next day, Governor Goodhair got a $25,000 check from Ken Lay. Some thought there might be a connection. The guv was forced to hold a press conference, at which he explained that the whole thing was "totally coincidental." So that was a big relief.

We don't have a sunshine law in Texas; it's more like a partly cloudy law. But even here a major state appointee has to fill out a bunch of forms that are then public record. When the governor's office put out the forms on the Enron guy, members of the press, that alert guardian watchdog of democracy, noticed that the question about any unfortunate involvement with law enforcement looked funny. The governor's office had whited out the answers. A sophisticated cover-up. The alert guardian watchdogs were on the trail. We soon uncovered a couple of minor traffic violations and the following item: While out hunting a few years earlier, the Enron guy accidentally shot a whooping crane. As a result he had to pay a $15,000 fine under what is known in Texas as the In Danger Species Act. We print this. A state full of sympathetic hunters reacted with, "Hell, anybody could accidentally shoot a whooper." But the press stayed on the story and was able to report that the guy shot the whooper while on a goose hunt. Now the whooper is a large bird-runs up to five feet tall. The goose--short. Now we have a state full of hunters saying, "Hell, if this boy is too dumb to tell a whooper from a goose, maybe he shouldn't be regulatin' public utilities." He was forced to resign.

[bigrun]

Originally Posted by GenuineRisk

So Liz Cheney illegally applied for a duck hunting license in Wyoming. She paid the fine, but blamed the clerk for not informing her of the residency requirement (apparently it's not the responsibility of the person applying to know the laws). Some conservative voters are citing this as a reason they may not vote for her.
http://news.yahoo.com/liz-cheney-wel...025116372.html

It made me remember a pretty funny piece the late great Molly Ivins did about an Enron appointee in Texas:

Loved Molly's column's, witty and on target...miss her writings...still have some pieces clipped from the paper laying around somewhere...she did not consider herself a liberal or a conservative but the right thought otherwise

[Danzig]

i could see where people could make that mistake on residency. we bought ark. resident licenses in the fall after moving here in the summer. i've been here for years, i don't know if they have one year requirements or not. oh, and the guy who shot the whooping crane...

reminds me of two stories. one is when john kerry so famously asked 'can i get me a huntin' license here?'. absolutely ridiculous.

the other...they re-introduced elk in ky years ago, but you weren't allowed to hunt them. some good ol boy was driving up and down thru town showing off his 'great buck' to any and everyone. it was an elk. gun, truck, elk, etc confiscated. the game and fish guy said anyone who can't tell the difference between a white tail and an elk has no business hunting.
i just want to know how he got the elk in his truck.