The simple answer is yes, but it needs to be well attended.
Here\’s proof:
The large turnout for the NJOA \”Mullica Hill\” rally and \”Battle of Monmouth\” rally, both in 2007, brought attention to two bills designed to ban freshwater fishing and hunting in NJ. The bills were also meant to alter the Fish and Game Council in order to weaken its conservation policy by injecting an animal rights agenda.
The rallies were well attended and are largely responsible for the defeat of the sponsors of the bills; Asm Panter Sen Karcher. Additionally, the bills did not proceed because our legislators realized that the rallies represented a grassroots movement of 650,000 anglers, hunters and conservationists expressing their dissatisfaction with the legislation. It was a classic example of our political system representing the will of the people.
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