Quote Originally Posted by wakina View Post
I just feel that if you are soliciting my vote and everyone else's vote who may read your solicitation on this site, that you should be more straight forward and post all of the facts and causes that you and your city and especially you as a Minor Family descendent supports. Please don't lead us to believe that you support the Sport Fishing Community and solicit votes based on that belief, you have made no reference to your ties to the commercial fishing industry in your solicitation for votes. The Minor family's interest is not the Sport fishing Community but the Commercial Fishing Community. This site is geared to and for the Sport fishing Community. So lets be honest with each other and the rest of the Walleye . com Community, you only registered 2 days ago on 04/14/2013, up and until you responded to my reply you had only made 2 posts both of which were soliciting votes. Besides your recent post/thread how many other posts on this site do you see in the support of Commercial Fishing? It would appear that you have no interest in the Walleye . Com community beyond soliciting votes for your cause!!

As I stated in my original reply I do not begrudge you or anyone else for making an honest living, but only that I do not support nor can I support your City and your Cities ongoing commercial fishing industry and fishing history with my vote. You mentioned that you do not support or believe in hunting and that is fine with me, I accept that as your personal choice. But writing that statement on this thread on Walleye . Com and using it as what appears to be a defense of your position, is like comparing apples to oranges and does not pass the smell test!! Here is why. Beyond Guided Hunts and hunting camps (Outfitters) for individual hunters or small groups of hunters who are hunting to fill their personal hunting tags, to the best of my knowledge, there are no Commercial hunting industries in the USA or Canada where there is a legal quota on commercially harvested game animals, with all or almost all of the harvested game animals being sold to the retail market as a food source and for the personal gain of the hunter. Have a nice day and may the future hold the best for you.
Let's get a few things straight here before you go off the deep end. I only mentioned the family as a descendent which goes back over 100 years. Not a huge deal mind you. BUT to set you straight. We "our committee" is in fact doing this for the community. As a matter of fact we have come in 2nd place the past two years winning at total of $10,000 which MOST of it has gone to the Port Colborne & District Conservation club who not only cleans the areas around us, but has a "WALLEYE" hatchery where they re stock the Welland River with thousands of Walleye every year, these fish find themselves in LAKE ERIE!! We also have used some of the winnings to promote youth conservation and good fishing habits with a FREE kids fishing Derby every year on fathers day. We are also pushing the bring back the Big Bass Classic Bass Tourney and support our yearly 444 Walleye Tourney. This contest and the winnings have nothing to do with Minor Fisheries and they get nothing out of it at all. So please before you accuse anyone of anything, maybe you should sit down, think things over a bit and calm down. You're rather quick to jump and accuse. Sure this was my first post here, and it was an important one at that. I will end my conversation with you at this point, as I don't want this to become a pissing contest. Good Day Wakina.