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CLOUT said:Just so you know what the OHV & motorsports users are really up against in Olympia!
We have been assured by Dave Helgeson who is a CLOUT member, that this email thread below from Senator Adam Kline is authentic. We are trying to fulfill Senator Kline's request for us to "circulate this to all motorized sports enthusiasts.
Please do your part to assist us in fulfilling Senator Kline's request by getting this to as many OHV/motorsports enthusiasts as you can.
Thank you,
CLOUT Admin
Full thread here: http://www.pnwjeep.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=7173Senator Adam Kline said:Dear Mr. Helgeson,
I signed on because I have been annoyed, endangered, and angered one too
many times by people riding motorized dirt-bikes and other off-road vehicles
that have no damn business anywhere. To me, this bill is narrow--it doesn't
include those "personal watercraft," seemingly jet-powered little missiles
whose only apparent purpose is to risk death and dismemberment for boaters
and swimmers, for the amusement of spoiled drunk teenagers.
Yes, I am sure there is the occasional responsible person who rides one of
these machines on land or water. And yes, like every human being I have
been pleasantly surprized to find my stereotypes broken. But why, why, why,
do folks insist on motorized "sports"? Those two words are an oxymoron.
There is nothing sporting--athletic, physically demanding--about riding any
machine anywhere. And it's a damned annoyance to folks who see the outdoors
as a place to go for quiet and solitude and self-exploration. I would be
happy to ban the use of the internal combustion engine off-road, by anyone
without a handicapped sticker, subject to a stiff fine. Maybe we could call
this an anti-obesity measure.
Please circulate this to all motorized sports enthusiasts, so they can
remember never to vote for me.
Adam Kline
Also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Kline
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