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Old 02-08-2011, 12:17 AM   #1
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Secret MLPA Meetings Revealed

Just as everyone suspected.

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SACRAMENTO – Meeting agendas and emails uncovered by a successful Public Records Act lawsuit demonstrate what skeptical members of the public have long suspected. The Marine Life Protection Act Initiative Blue Ribbon Task Force pervasively and routinely met behind closed doors while directing the privately funded marine closure process.

“Public meetings of the BRTF have been an elaborately staged kabuki performance choreographed and rehearsed down to the last detail, even to the crafting of motions in scheduled private meetings held before the so-called public meetings of the BRTF. Clearly this has not been the ‘most open and transparent process ever’ as it has so often been described,” Partnership of Sustainable Oceans representative George Osborn testified during the February 2nd meeting of the California Fish and Game Commission.
Please read the rest at Western Outdoor News: http://bit.ly/gGBejh

Edit: SD Freedivers is hosting the entire 25-page document dump so you can see it for your own eyes.
http://www.sandiegofreedivers.com/ML...umentation.pdf
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Old 02-08-2011, 12:30 AM   #2
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Just as everyone suspected.



Please read the rest at Western Outdoor News: http://bit.ly/gGBejh
What a joy to read that. Thanks again for keeping us updated.
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Old 02-08-2011, 01:46 PM   #3
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Great Article! Keep up the Fight, Donate Here.................. http://www.oceanaccessprotectionfund.org/
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Old 02-08-2011, 01:58 PM   #4
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so good to see some actual evidence of the shifty behavior that has been driving us all up a wall. now hopefully it isn't too late to have an impact and have them held responsible.
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Old 02-08-2011, 02:32 PM   #5
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Want to see the entire 25-page set of BRTF private meeting docs? I have the perfect link for you. Thanks to SD Freedivers for hosting:

http://www.sandiegofreedivers.com/ML...umentation.pdf
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Old 02-08-2011, 02:56 PM   #6
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All this stuff is really great news. I hope it at least postpones the closures until after the outcome of the lawsuit.

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Old 02-08-2011, 03:37 PM   #7
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Want to see the entire 25-page set of BRTF private meeting docs? I have the perfect link for you. Thanks to SD Freedivers for hosting:

http://www.sandiegofreedivers.com/ML...umentation.pdf
Kinda gives new meaning to the term : "Water gate"
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