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Old 08-13-2010, 06:58 AM   #4
JohnR
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Originally Posted by ivanputski View Post
What exactly will the forum be? I was thinking of going to the RI meeting, but honestly, how much of a "voice" will recreational anglers have? will they give one person 2 minutes to represent all anglers? Ive seen things like this go bad quick... many times, it's just a window dressing formality to appear as if they care about your input before they go ahead and do what they have already decided to do anyway...

Numbers count. So a room with one or two speaking plus 100 people in the background supporting an issue will have a LOT more weight than one or two speaking with 4 people in back, which is what usually happens.

I've seen enough times that it has worked to convince me that is worthy to do.

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