You still don’t get it. HCU doesn’t have to fight for commercial interests. What they have to do is, at a minimum, not sell out the industry by supporting the banning agenda. One of the problems with HCU is that your members participate in the activities that the Constitution says you don’t support. It makes the whole organization look like a bunch of herpocrites. For the most part, I support HCU’s efforts to get the road ban over turned. However, you have gotten yourselves into a pickle because in trying to get the road ban over turned some members have lied to politicians and TPWD about their and the groups activities instead of supporting the right to sell wild caught. The members that don’t buy, sell or trade wild caught can honestly say they don’t but you definitely have many members that do.

I would not consider becoming a member because your positions are sell out, you have a bunch of herpocrite members and many members are real jerks. Not because you don’t fight for commercial collectors. Of course you can change those things but only time will tell. By-the-way I don’t include you as a jerk like many of your other members definitely are. You are sometimes mis-guided and apparently don’t read my posts thoroughly. You try, unsuccessfully, to justify the actions and positions HCU has taken. You have always debated the issues politely and have never sunk to the name calling and character assassinations other HCU members have unleashed at me. But you also make things up. The following statement is false: “No member of HCU even had Mike in their thoughts until he started trying to tear HCU down.” I was on the gray-band forums from the beginning before HCU was an idea. I was the one who contacted the lobbyist and got the road ban tabled. I was there posting the same types of things I post now. But you guys refused to listen. Then you formed HCU and I didn’t give up. Everytime one of the herpocrites slipped up I was there. The reason I get attacked is because I was correct all long and the big egos in the group can’t handle it.

I do encourage people to not support HCU because of the reasons I have stated over and over again. I do, however, support getting the road ban over turned just not HCU the organization. I have sent letters, made phone calls and done all I can. But I will not sell out my rights nor the herp industry for the road ban and neither should you.

Welkerii

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