Last legislative session, there were people who reached across the aisle and involved as many people as possible in the stream access bill that was passed by both sides.

This session, the GOP is not including anyone in the process that they don't want to hear from. They have an education spending bill that involved no one in education in the process. HB 309 only involved a small group of high priced lawyers representing even fewer landowners and nobody from the sportsman side. People representing sportsmen have asked to be involved and have been shunned and their only opportunity to speak was yesterday at the committee hearing.

This GOP session has taken a new meaning to "small government" and included the least amount of people it could in the process.