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SANTA FE - A bill that would outlaw coyote-killing contests could be voted on as soon as Friday by the New Mexico House of Representatives.
Rep. Nate Cote, D-Organ, streamlined the original version, and his revised bill cleared the Judiciary Committee 9-6 late Wednesday.
Republican Rep. Terry McMillan, a surgeon from Las Cruces, joined the committee's Democrats in voting to advance the bill to the full 70-member House.
Cote, himself a hunter, originally proposed to ban commercialized animal-killing contests where prizes were awarded to those with the most kills. This brought opposition from kennel clubs that hunt birds, so Cote edited the bill to focus only on coyote contests..... Read more at link
NM coyote hunting Vote could come today 02/22/13
So if this passes will PM still have its annual hunt & convention in NM or move, and take it's tourism dollars it pumps into the local economy, to a more Predator Hunter friendly state?
Rep. Nate Cote, D-Organ, streamlined the original version, and his revised bill cleared the Judiciary Committee 9-6 late Wednesday.
Republican Rep. Terry McMillan, a surgeon from Las Cruces, joined the committee's Democrats in voting to advance the bill to the full 70-member House.
Cote, himself a hunter, originally proposed to ban commercialized animal-killing contests where prizes were awarded to those with the most kills. This brought opposition from kennel clubs that hunt birds, so Cote edited the bill to focus only on coyote contests..... Read more at link
NM coyote hunting Vote could come today 02/22/13
So if this passes will PM still have its annual hunt & convention in NM or move, and take it's tourism dollars it pumps into the local economy, to a more Predator Hunter friendly state?