GOP bloodlust out of control: another hunting scandal (Oregon)

[barbaraann]

Poaching allegations add to hotelier's troubles
Police accuse Shilo Inns founder Mark Hemstreet and six others of state game violations at his Eastern Oregon ranch
Wednesday, January 12, 2005
BRYAN DENSON

Oregon State Police have cited hotel magnate Mark Hemstreet and a cadre of family and friends with 30 wildlife crimes and violations, among them illegally killing four elk and a black bear last fall on Shilo Ranch, Hemstreet's massive spread near Wallowa.

Hemstreet's friend Gregg Clapper, a 54-year-old Republican strategist known for his aggressive media campaigns, also was cited after a two-month investigation. Troopers searching Clapper's Portland home before Christmas found a small amount of marijuana and four pipes, according to court papers.
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Hostetter criticized the extensive investigation of Shilo Ranch hunters -- which included searches of four dwellings on both sides of the Cascades -- as an unusual way to spend the state's limited law enforcement funds. He said police planted a decoy of a bull elk to entrap Shilo Ranch hunters in hopes of catching Hemstreet's friends and family.

"They warned non-Shilo hunters there was a decoy up ahead," Hostetter claimed. "That just reveals who they were after."
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http://www.oregonlive.com/search/index.ssf?/base/front_page/1105534831279790.xml?oregonian?fpfp#continue

Republicans love to kill so much they have to cheat to do it. I'm guessing Mr. Hemstreet is a pro-lifer.

[Az_lefty]

1. Clapper: 54 year-old pothead Repug....

I'm so glad these guys are getting caught.

[havocmom]

2. Elk decoy = entrapment?!?

Was the elk decoy coming on to them? Was the elk decoy the one who sold 'em the pot? Did the elk decoy stick it's hoves in its ears, and go "Neener neener neener" and taunt them into shooting at it?

:eyes:

Guess what, Hostetter, you don't get to do what you please when it comes to the state's property, and the wildlife is the state's.

[barbaraann]

3. LOL--blaming an elk decoy is pretty pathetic, isn't it?

heehee

[havocmom]

5. Pathetic? I know six year olds who can do better

Would love to see how this bozo would handle being busted for hitting on an undercover cop posing as a hooker :D

[Downtown Hound]

4. Um, yeah, they were after you you idiot

If you weren't illegally hunting, you wouldn't have gotten caught.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

6. bwahahaha

Mark Hemstreet owns Shilo Inns, known for hiring immigrants for minimum wage and working them half to death, and is one of the three millionaire cranks who continually funds rightwing intiatives and pays petition gatherers to get them on the ballot, by lying about the nature of the petition, if necessary.

As a former resident of Oregon, my Schadenfreude is kicking in.