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🚨 Outside lobbyists are rewriting Colorado's constitution. We are fighting back to protect CO voters and stop out-of-state special interests👇 #NoOn302

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Initiative 302, while claiming to protect hunting, is a way for out-of-state groups to challenge CPW and voter decisions, leading to waste and abuse. Hunting, fishing, and wildlife management are already supported & established in CO #NoOn302 #VoteNoOn302 #ColoradoInitiative302

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🇺🇸This July 4, remember what independence is supposed to mean.

The "Right to Hunt" initiative is not what it sounds like. Hunting and angling are already protected in Colorado.

🌄Colorado is worth protecting. Our mountains, our wildlife, our public lands, and our Constitution belong to the people who live here, not out-of-state political groups.

The restrictive, lobbyist-fed language in Initiative 302 will silence voters and tie @COParksWildlife hands.

🇺🇸Protect Colorado’s wildlife.
🇺🇸Protect Colorado’s Constitution.
Protect both.

Learn more: https://t.co/XlB8OAHXdg

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🚨Out-of-state interest groups are pushing Initiative 302 under the guise of protecting hunting and fishing, but it is actually a deceptive legal trap designed to hijack Colorado’s Constitution.

➡️Since hunting and fishing rights are already secure in the state, this measure exists solely to insert vague, litigation-ready terms like “traditional methods” into law.

🌟The true goal is to arm lawyers with the constitutional wording needed to overturn Colorado’s existing, voter-approved ban on cruel trapping methods like snares and leghold traps.

➡️➡️➡️Arizona voters saw through and rejected an identical Trojan horse in 2010, recognizing that the amendment was far more dangerous than its harmless-sounding pitch.

🚨🚨🚨Coloradans must do the same to protect their established wildlife laws from being dismantled by out-of-state lawsuits. Don't fall for the setup: decline to sign Initiative 302, and vote "no" if it reaches the ballot. 🚨🚨🚨

#Colorado #ColoradoPolitics #COPolitics #HuntersandAnglers #ProtectCOConstiution @denverpost #COwildlife #CoVoters

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Are you ready, Colorado?

🚨🚨🚨Supporters of 302 are openly bragging about shutting down new protections for endangered sea turtles in Florida and they’re selling that outcome as a model for Colorado.

On Marco Island, city leaders considered a simple, common‑sense rule: restricting overnight shark fishing during sea turtle nesting season.

The goal was to reduce “false crawls,” when turtles come ashore but abandon nesting, incidents that officials say have risen 86%, often due to bright lights and crowds from midnight shark‑baiting groups on protected nesting beaches.

But the proposal never even got off the ground.

IOTR’s Travis Thompson points to Florida’s Amendment 2 — the same type of constitutional “right to hunt and fish” measure as 302 as the reason the city backed down. He boasts that one angler, acting alone, used the amendment to kill the rule.

No groups, no coalition, just a single individual empowered by a constitutional right that overrides local wildlife protections.

And now, he says Florida’s amendment is the blueprint for Colorado.

➡️If 302 passes, Colorado residents, voters, and wildlife lose.

Local governments will face the same barriers Marco Island did: 🚨 Even basic, science‑based protections for vulnerable species could be challenged and overturned by anyone claiming their “right to hunt or fish” is affected.

Florida’s experience isn’t a warning from opponents.
It’s a sales pitch from 302’s own supporters.

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Colorado’s “Right to Hunt” initiative uses vague terms that would almost certainly collide with the existing trapping-methods ban.

The out‑of‑state groups promoting it understand that — the ambiguity is part of the strategy, even if they deny it now.

🚨If this measure passes, those undefined phrases like “traditional methods” and “preferred means” could be used in court to argue that lethal traps must be allowed again, and that biologists can’t rely on non‑lethal tools. 🚨

That’s the real risk: small, vague words that open big legal doors and reshape how Colorado manages wildlife.

🪢Ultimately, it ties the hands of our state wildlife biologists on how they can manage OUR wildlife.

Learn more: https://t.co/XlB8OAHXdg

#Colorado #NoTo302 #ColoradoPolitics #COPolitics #COwildlife #ColoradoWildlife #ProtectOurCoConstitution #TrojanHorse

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When out of state lobby groups decide a handful of Colorado-based hunters, anglers, hikers, scientists, and general outdoors folks are “some big organization,” we honestly just laugh and consider ourselves flattered!

While they toss around dramatic buzzwords like "Heritage" and "Traditional", it helps to look at the language they choose. When the wording gets louder than the facts, that is usually a sign to dig a little deeper.

Colorado folks can read a trail. We can read messaging the same way.

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Big supporter of our sportspeople.

However there is concern with how the language is being framed in this ballot measure, and the impact it would have on science-based management practices. The inflow of out-of-state funding is also deeply concerning to CO voters.

More here: https://t.co/XlB8OAHpnI

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Colorado, don’t let them use Oregon to scare you into giving up your own power. Colorado isn't Oregon.

Initiative 302 isn't about protecting hunting or fishing; those are already completely legal and well-regulated. It is instead a sneaky constitutional power grab.

The real trap? 302 hands special interests a new constitutional weapon to overturn future voter-backed wildlife protections.

📢They are screaming “anti-hunting” so you won't notice the handcuffs they are putting on Colorado voters.

🚨🚨This isn't about local hunters; it’s about political lawyers trying to lock "wildlife harvesting" into our Constitution to fight future CPW science-backed recommendations on trapping, gear, seasons, and make hunting and trapping the exclusive method of management, even if other methods are recommended by CPW biologists. 🚨🚨

Ethical hunters and anglers know that wildlife management is multi-dimensional. And we trust science-based management decisions led by CPW staff biologists.

✊Colorado wildlife belongs to Coloradans—not out-of-state power players.

Vote NO on 302. Keep Colorado voters in charge. #noOn302 #ColoradoPolitics #CoPolitics #CoWildlife #HuntersandAnglers #ColoradoVoters #ProtectCOConstitution #Colorado #wildlifeManagement #NoTo302

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Initiative 302 is being sold as “save hunting and fishing,” but hunting and fishing are already legal in Colorado.

Colorado Parks and Wildlife already manages seasons, tags, licenses, bag limits, and method-of-take rules. Colorado law already says hunting, trapping, and fishing are used as primary methods for necessary wildlife harvest.

So what are we actually being asked to do?

We are being asked to put broad, permanent language into the Colorado Constitution.

Words like “traditional methods,” “preferred means,” and “reasonable and necessary” may sound harmless at a petition table, but those are not just outdoor words. They are legal words.

🚨🚨🚨 Future lawsuit words to fight against science-based management, tie the hands of CPW, waste taxpayer $$, and stifle healthy debate even within our hunting communities.

Initiative 302 is a "power grab" rather than a protection for hunting and angling, it inserts vague language into the Colorado Constitution that could lead to costly legal battles over predator management and trapping.

Public resources and state funds can get diverted away from conservation to defend against lawsuits, ultimately serving specific business interests rather than local hunters and anglers.

Don’t let special-interest lobby groups drag hunters, anglers, license buyers, and taxpayers into future court fights and make the rest of us pay for it.

Decline to sign 302. #NoOn302 #ColoradoPolitics #CoPolitics #HuntersandAnglers #Fishing #ProtectCOConstitution #PublicLands #Colorado #ColoradoWildlife

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Initiative 302 could potentially weaken Amendment 14. That’s exactly how TABOR was chipped away over time.
This is no accident. It’s strategy – & a trap. Refuse to sign 302. Follow for updates, facts & ways to fight 302
#ProtectColoradosConstitution #NoOn302 #coloradoPolitics

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302 = trojan horse. States that adopted broad “right to hunt/trap” amendments see costly litigation that never ends. Ambiguous constitutional language = $$$ in taxpayer-funded legal costs, & uncertainty for agencies & the public https://t.co/3Gkdau8c3p #ColoradoPolitics #NoTo302

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We are a coalition of CO conservationists, hunters, anglers, and wildlife enthusiasts who support nuanced discussions and science-based wildlife management. Join our fight against draconian attacks on our state rights and constitution #ColoradoPolitics #coWildlife #publiclands