Media Coverage - The Bay City Times - Editorial: To Ban Dove Hunting, Vote No on Prop 06-3
Published Tuesday, October 10, 2006. Editorial. The Bay City Times
We don't hunt doves here.
Send that message, once and for all, to Lansing in the general election on Nov. 7.
An item on the ballot that day - called Proposal 3 - looks complicated, but boils down to one simple question.
Should dove hunting be allowed in Michigan?
No. Of course not.
In Michigan, we consider our mourning doves songbirds: Coo. Coo.
Not targets, nor food.
Yet, some hunters' groups, using lobbyists and political pressure, managed in 2004 to finesse a dove season for some southern Michigan counties.
Well, they got the cardinal direction right, if nothing else.
Shooting doves is a Southern states' sport that some want to import Up North here.
We won't criticize our Southern cousins' odd habits.
Suffice it to say that in Michigan, we don't eat grits.
And we definitely don't shoot doves.
Haven't, since dove hunting was outlawed here in 1905.
On Nov. 7, end this effort to kill our doves.
Vote ''no'' on Proposal 3.
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