re: #92 wrenchwench

This is what my congresscritter was doing that was so important he couldn’t make it to the SOTU:

I won’t be watching that. Even if he had to take a drink in the middle of it.

If anyone was wondering what that meat puppet was doing there:

Federal wildlife officials are considering to list the lesser prairie chicken as threatened under the Endangered Species Act, something critics argue would hurt the state’s economy.

On Tuesday people rallied in protest of the listing as Roswell became the last stop for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife seeking public opinions on the proposal.

Wildlife officials say the lesser prairie chicken population has declined over the years, and are now considering whether to list it as threatened under the Endangered Species Act.

“It was a candidate species based on the fact that the populations were declining due to drought, due to habitat fragmentation, due to oil and gas development,” explained Cal Baca, USFWS chief of the Wildlife Management Division.

Rep. Steve Pearce, R-N.M., was in Roswell for the rally, and spoke to the crowd.

“The Fish and Wildlife Service is working with bad science, with bad ideas, and with an assumption that you have to kill jobs in order to protect a species,” said Pearce.