Some INFO for MN riders

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This was posted on another forum and I felt this would also be a good spot for it to get the word out to as many as possible who might be affected by this kind of political attitude.

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Rep Mike Jaros from Duluth Mn sent the following letter to one of his constituents in response to a letter about motorized recreation. The question was not even about snowmobiles, but he slams them anyways.

If you are on other sled, ATV, Jeep, boat or motorcycle boards where people from Duluth Mn might see this, please re-post it there.

Here's the letter:

Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2008 19:13:31 -0500
From: "Mike Jaros" <rep.mike.jaros@house.mn>
To: (I removed to protect email)
Subject: Re: snowmobiles trails 55768
Hi Greg,
Thanks for your message. We are running out of energy, so why waste it on recreational vehicles? If you want to recreate, sit in a boat and power it manually like we used to do it. Also, you can ride in a sled with manually propelled devices and ATVs could be driven with manpower. That is real exercise!
You must see how energy prices are skyrocketing and all prices are rising, because everything we touch, buy or see is dependent on energy. I went to a seminar last January where two world energy experts said that in about 25 years freeways and airports will be historical museums. We will have to go back to horses and buggies, trains and boats, which are most economical transportation.
I was not asked by MRR to introduce my bill, but I guess they are supporting it. I do not care - I do what I think is right. There are some who believe that giving your organizations gas tax money is unconstitutional, I believe it is not, because when the constitution was written there were no paved roads. Good Roads Association believes your programs are getting too much money. I introduced the bill to look into all of these issues and decide next biennium who is right and who is wrong.

Best wishes and take it easy - relax, recreate and enjoy life, because it is too short! Motorized vehicles and snowmobiles make life too fast and too many people are getting killed on those devils!
Best wishes,
Mike

We've all got to work together in stopping exactly this kind of thing. We have a voice, maybe it's time to use it for our benefit.

 

[switchback]

This guy got voted in? Oh man....
Airports and freeways will be history and we'll be back to horse & buggy? He must be hanging out with the dudes we bought weed from at UMD.

 

[markoo]

Could you imagine trying to highmark somebody with a horse and buggy? Then the next guy would come out with two horses and a buggy. It just wouldn't be the same.

 

[Lets Rip]

F this guy!!! For real this guy really doesn't know what he's talking about!!

 

[cableguy]

what a dork. He need to go #&*@ a goat

 

[nathaniel11]

well it shows his email address how bout sending him alittle reply from the sw family

 

[onlyrotax]

Dumb as dirt

Yeah, I love it when politicians get on the podium or on tv and preach to us about wasting fuel, and then when they are finished they get on their private jet and use more fuel to get the thing off the ground than I will use in 5 years in all of my vehicles put together. Vote this idiot out and make him get a real job. Maybe after punching a clock for years on end he will feel the need to get out and do a little "recreating".

 

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It's not only him. Andy Weilty down here in SE MN is along those lines.

I emailed him my thoughts on the bill and he said he doesn't "believe" anything like that would be put up, even though it was up when I wrote him.

I had the pleasure of him stopping by the house last week to talk up his work in St Paul. Needless to say he hardly got a word in edge wise and won't likely come back to my house. Seriously, it's not his job to "believe" he needs to know what's going on. Apparently he doesn't like being told that.

 

[shortstop20]

This is actually for real? Does this guy not realize that if we stop driving cars and trucks the economy will drop to it's knees in one day?

 

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Think I'm gonna send him a nice email tomorrow after I've had a few Hamms.

Seriously, as a profesional and voice of the people he couldn't have acted in a more immature unprofesional way.

 

[Snowizard]

I'm not surprised at any of this. MRR is based in Duluth, and their membership is made up of mainly doctors, lawyers, and other extreme enviro nut cases.

MNUSA (Minnesota United Snowmobile Association ) was successful , through the efforts of their lobbyist, in preventing the MRR bill from ever getting a committee hearing. (first step, in a bill becoming law.)

So I imagine MRR is pizzed about their failure to "protect" us from ourselves.

These people are sneaky and tenacious. They will never give up, so these attacks on any form of motorized recreation will continue every year, just like the ever present land closure attacks.

If you want to really ruin your Friday, go to their website
http://www.mnresponsiblerec.org/

So write legislators, but PLEASE be respectful and business-like in your correspondence.
If the legislators perceive us as a bunch of "rednecks", that will only give them more encouragement to cut off our trail system funding.

!! Also, if you don't already belong to MNUSA, now would be a great time to join, so we can continue to fight this crap!!
http://www.mnsnowmobiler.org

EDIT Link to Snowest thread, Minnesota section, on this subject . http://www.snowest.com/forum/showthread.php?t=71387

 

[HuskerCat]

Posted from MRR's website. "MRR's academic, evidentiary approach puts facts before politics. MRR works to estabilsh high level standards for protecting our state from the unwanted effects of motorized recreation. MRR's citizen audits of public funding for motorized recreation are currently providing badly-needed oversight of gas-tax funded institutions that driving the annual promotion and expansion of motorized recreation while the Minnesota's majority seek quiet places."

As usual... They must have forgot to check their facts before putting them before politics. I don't think they have checked the combined number of recreational boats, snowmobiles, ATV's, dirt bikes and jet ski's. MRR contends that it costs more to build and maintain trail systems for these RV's than the revenue they provide. They must not take into consideration sales tax on these rv's, continual license renewal, and gas tax revenue. Minnesota's lakes, parks, rivers, and all public areas depend on this revenue. Without it, the DNR would never be able to maintain all of the "quiet" areas these people so desperately want to protect. I'd like to see them maintain all these areas off of private donations.

 

[Chubbydog]

If we all went to horse & buggy, I wonder what would happen to gas prices.

 

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So write legislators, but PLEASE be respectful and business-like in your correspondence.
If the legislators perceive us as a bunch of "rednecks", that will only give them more encouragement to cut off our trail system funding.

!! Also, if you don't already belong to MNUSA, now would be a great time to join, so we can continue to fight this crap!!
http://www.mnsnowmobiler.org

EDIT Link to Snowest thread, Minnesota section, on this subject . http://www.snowest.com/forum/showthread.php?t=71387

Excellent advice, sound off to them, but respectfully.

 

[fassteddie]

i wonder if boeing knows that they start building carbon fiber buggys. now here is a guy that is truly from gravelers (fantasy island)

 

[R J]

Usually Duluth has had pro recreation people, who let this azzhat get in, and further more who gave him a keyboard and or pen to write this trash?

This is a huge issue right now, the previous battle in April was defeated when cool heads looked into the gas tax thing but what it did is make a lot of folks aware of it. Now people are saying, hey wait a minute, I could use some of that money for my special interest group.

Well I was in a good mood since I'm off on Fridays now, but this thread has taken a bit of that enjoyment away.

 

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Well I was in a good mood since I'm off on Fridays now, but this thread has taken a bit of that enjoyment away.

Sorry for that brother, but knowledge really is Power>

 

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ttt

 

[Spiffy]

We seem to have a bunch of these azzhats around here too..(too bad they dropped the bounty on them)
What I really like is they want their "quiet" places and then drive their SUV's from the city to the "quiet" places, park right in front of it, stuff their coffee cups in the trees, leave the garbages overflowing, never heard of pack out what you pack in, then when you overhear them at some hoity-toity event, sipping some crap wine, bragging about nature...A good portion of them do not give a **** about anything other than themselves and hop on the bandwagon in their...ohh enough of that run on sentence....