Thanks Cody I missed that. Yep just what I thought. No legal argument against it and nothing like it infringes on other right or is weighted down with carp. All they can do is say it clutters the constitution or it's a stupid right like making a right to watch sports on TV. I know a guy on TFF that was unemployed for over a year and he fished to feed his family. I would hate to see his ability to feed his family taken away by anybody. As of right now I don't see a legitimate reason to vote against this.

Thats where i'm at Todd. It more of the "what if" factor for me. Vote yes, nothing changes, no big deal. Vote no, something changes, aww [censored] I should have voted yes.

Todd,

I hope you're well. I do some political consulting in my "other job," so I've been following this closely. There is no gain or loss with this law in and of itself. It's a political game for lawmakers to push their conservative bona fides around and say that they did something.

It wouldn't stop PETA because PETA would address the kind of concerns that Prop 6 would protect against in Federal Court, and then the supremacy clause of the federal government would trump this. I was talking to a Republican politician who is advocating for this publicly (because he has too), but he noted that Prop 6 could actually be used by PETA more effectively than it can be used against them because it would place the question of inherent rights of sportsman in front of judges in a way that conservative judges would bristle at (the founders didn't suggest sportsmanship as a right here in Texas, as they didn't put it in there).

To give you perspective, sportsman are in much worse situations in California. They have this amendment for fishing already. It didn't help anything when legal questions have gone against fisherman out there.

Likely, the bill doesn't hurt sportsman here in Texas, but it doesn't really help either. It's a publicity opp for politicians... that's it.

The only bad thing about it - other than the shameless publicity opp (those kill me) - is that our politicians are working on these kind of silly things when there are real problems in the state to deal with. They took time to puff their chests out while there is a lot of real work to do - some of it really affecting natural resources and sportsmanship.

It's a nice sounding bill, and I can't fault anyone for voting for it. However, I can fault the politicians who decided to waste time and resources on this instead of real problems all day long. I'll probably vote for it, but I'm tempted to vote against it just because it bothers me I'm voting on something dumb like this in the first place instead of things that really matter.