Fellow Sportsmen and Boaters:
This coming Wednesday June 9th 2010 or a little later in the week the New Hampshire Legislature (House and Senate) will be requested to vote on the Governor’s new proposed budget. The Governor may be requesting the legislature vote on his transfer of $500,000 from the sportsman and boaters funded Public Access dedicated fund to the General Fund to help balance his budget. This is a dedicated fund that was established to provide funding for public access to New Hampshire’s lakes, ponds, rivers and ocean and is being paid for with sportsmen’s and sportswomen’s dollars. This is the dedicated fee of $5.00 that is assessed on each boat registration. This is not the Governor’s or the Legislature’s money, it belongs to you and me and not the State treasury. By transferring these funds to the use of the general fund, it will be the same as taking what doesn’t belong to you and I believe the other word for this is called stealing.
Contact Governor Lynch and request he find his money from some other source other than the money that belongs to the state’s boaters and sportsmen.
Also contact your Legislators and request they vote not to support this money grab from the state’s boaters and sportsmen. Tell them that just last year the Governor and Legislature voted to double the boat registration fees in 2010 and now they still want the $5.00 fee agreed upon by the boaters and sportsmen to be paid into a public access fund.
Inform both the Governor and your Legislators that they should vote NO for this fund transfer, for if they vote yes, you will be voting NO for them in November.