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Gaines: Activists are using CPW to sneak in what the public rejected
Colorado Accountability Project, Approved, Commentary, State

Gaines: Activists are using CPW to sneak in what the public rejected

By Cory Gaines | Commentary, Colorado Accountability Project By a 15% margin Denver voters last November soundly rejected an initiative to ban any new fur sales (among other things like display or trades) in the city.If you thought that this would be enough to convince animal rights activists to rethink their strategy, you're right.They did rethink it. According to the Complete Colorado article linked first below, a citizen petition for rulemaking (which is linked second below) has recently been filed with Colorado Parks and Wildlife to effectively do what voters in Denver clearly and obviously rejected.The difference? This petition, if it goes through, would be statewide and would be decided upon by the 12 CPW commissioners that Polis appointed.Let me run that past you again. 12 unelec...