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Oakland Press: Doves Come Back to Bite

Published June 06, 2005. Oakland Press.
Doves come back to bite

Speaking of Granholm, she must look with foreboding upon the approval by the State Board of Canvassers of a 2006 ballot proposal to ban the shooting of mourning doves.

That issue should be a bit of an embarrassment for the governor, who first supported a ban, then let the hunting lobby persuade her she was wrong.

Supporters of a ban went out and gathered more than 275,000 resident signatures to take the issue out of the hands of the governor, the lawmakers and the lobbyists, and put it before the general public.

You don't have to be very imaginative to realize that an essentially anti-Granholm issue on the ballot, along with the governor herself, could be the difference between her winning and losing.

So might she change her mind again and support the proposal? Granholm did what she could for the hunters. They couldn't stop the successful petition drive, something that's been done by others with other ballot proposal petition attempts.

So, why should the governor stick with what is, in all likelihood, the losing side of a sort of "Bambi" issue?

Besides, Democrats don't generally find themselves at odds with such advocacy groups as the national and state Humane and Audubon societies. All support the ban.

The governor is said to want to succeed U.S. Sen. Carl Levin in the 2008 election, something that might be difficult for an ousted governor, especially one rejected over this issue.

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