Posted: August 16, 2010 at 7:44 pm
“Pet hunting” apologist, tea-bagger tired of fighting our laws, wants to make his own
Meet Art Wittich, a little known but frighteningly-outside-the-mainstream candidate for Montana State Senate District 35, a district that includes the outskirts of Bozeman, MT out to Three Forks and Manhattan. (Gary Perry’s old seat.) Wittich tries to play it fairly straight on his own website, touting the fact that he’s an attorney blah, blah, blah. The facts, however, show he’s anything but mainstream. Also, for some reason, Wittich’s site makes no mention of the case that made him famous.
Wittich is most known for (unsuccessfully) representing game farm owners against I-143, the voter passed initiative that banned shooting game farm animals for a fee, a practice critics call “pet hunting” or “canned hunting.”
Wittich also scored a shocking 100% on his Tea Party candidate questionnaire. To put that in perspective, even Montana Representatives Tom McGillvray (R-Outer Space), Wendy “Wackadoodle” Warburton and Michael More did not attain that score.
Art Wittich (SD-35), is listed on the Bozeman Tea Party website as being among the three most tea-baggery candidates in the area because he
“consistently participated and actively supported the planning and execution of Tea Party rallies and other grassroots conservative events in Gallatin and Park Counties.”
They even sent out a crazy caps press release about him.
Tea Baggers are said to love the Constitution, and freedom and populism. What part of that makes them fall all over a guy who defends an indefensible practice: trapping deer and elk inside an escape proof pasture and offering them up as targets to well-heeled clients? Perhaps that’s why Wittich isn’t bringing it up.
He did what??? He out-teabagged Wendy Warpedburpin’! Oh….my…..GOD! That’s some serious teabaggin’! Art has raised teabagging to an art form!
Wow another tea bagger who will probley get the nra endorsment even though game farm hunting is not real hunting. Im a proud hunter and gun owner and I’ll tell you this Im lucky to be successful and bag an animal about 5percent of the time when I hunt so yea I dont care for game farming its not a natural hunt and its disrespect to the animals.
Plus the fact that he out teabaged everybody that earns him the cake the ice cream and the cookies for this boy, I mean he didnt just drink the kool aid he went back for seconds and is passing it out to little children probley.
And yet your own guy defended the mafia??
McDonald took a crook and turned him into a witness–together with federal prosecutors and the FBI, McDonald and Fratianno helped take down more than two dozen other mobsters. That was a benefit to the public – less criminals on the street.
Game farms do not serve the public interest, in fact, they spread diseases that could spread to cattle. No thanks.
Don’t waste your time, Cowgirl. A person who a) confuses a state Senate race with a race for the US House, b) can’t tell the difference between the Constitutional right to criminal defense and a tort suit on behalf of the butthurt, and c) doesn’t care about the will of the people in a non-Constitutional matter … a guy like that doesn’t give a hoot about the truth, or justice, or for that matter, what really makes America strong.
Wolfy – I assume you are attacking me. Please point out where I mentioned anything about a state Senate race and a race for the US House. Be VERY specific and do not make assumptions. You must be assuming (makes an ASS of U and ME) I was referring to your boy MacDonald.
Appears all we are arguing is I-143. Indefensible or defensible? All you have to offer is your opinion. Which everyone knows everyone has one – just like an asshole. Although, it appears, some are bigger than others.
Ah, Little Mikey, is it getting lonely on the short bus?
Let’s take it from the top. You are again confused about the subject at hand. That subject would be Art Wittich, Teabagger for state Senate district 35. Your response was to bring up “your guy”. Wittich isn’t running against a “guy”, ours or otherwise. Not one person who read your comment could assume anything other than that you were referring to Dennis McDonald, candidate for the US House. Your useless Ad Hominem about me “assuming” certainly proves you’re an ass, and not a very bright one either.
No, you and I weren’t arguing about I-143. Notice, I wasn’t arguing with you at all. I was simply pointing out that you’re not worth arguing with because you haven’t a clue what’s going on here. Thank you for proving me correct.
As to I-143, I do have more than my ‘opinion’ to rely on. Every challenge to that Initiative has proven indefensible, all the way to the SCOTUS, cupcake.
AND, if you read Arty’s blog, you discover that he was an Army brat. That is HARDLY the way that one is imbued with Montana values. What that does do is imbue one with rightwing values. Funny, though, that the biggest anti-gubmint folks are the ones that have sucked LARGE of Unca Sugarteat for most of their lives. Recall Carly from his previous foray here. Twenty years in the Navy.
And the canned hunting absolutely outraged Montanans as a violation of our traditions. Apparently Arty was immune to that.
Though the topic of discussion was quite different than here, I think I just encountered the best possible description for canned hunting:
I don’t have horse in this race, but I remember my self-righteous attitude when, as an undergraduate in wildlife biology, I went on a class trip to a shooting preserve on the edge of Denver. I was badmouthing the whole notion of pay-as-you-kill hunting when my professor pointed out that (1) Not everybody has the time or opportunity to hunt free-ranging game (in this case ducks and pheasants) and (2) the more people who are satisfied with “canned” hunting, the fewer competing with me in the field. That was 50 years ago. Since then I’ve added another reason not to disrespect people who have values different from my own: I didn’t dream up my values, I grew up with them and so did others. Who am I, therefoe, to judge. Seriously, Jesus said it best.
So you come here to defend penned hunting? If you don’t have the “time and opportunity” (but you do have lots of cash or you wouldn’t be able to afford the pet-hunt) for a fair chase hunt, you can, of course, get your meat at the grocery story in a plastic package like the rest of us.