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(Continuedfrom page J) o 00 0') ~ 0') l-o Cl) ..0 e Cl) > o Z Boots, Bell?, and everything in between, your Kawasaki dealer has all the right gear for street motocross and enduros including the new blue Team K end~o outfit. Go look now- ' we've got you covered! . Kawasak, I Do n t let the good times pass you by. SPECiAL 1980 MODEL LEARANCE SALE KERN SPORT CYCLE 30718thIT. BAKERSFIELD. CA 83301 (801) 324-6218 YAMAHA SUZUKI SIMI VALLEY CYCLES 2902 LOS ANGELES AVE. SIIII1 VALLE\', CALIf. <80S) 522-5434 16 2'39242"1 VARNA 9i1G6S MAiCO fill the mailboxes with half· truths, dis· torted facts, and outright lies. Anyhow, the day after election day found the environmentalists, the De· partment of Parks and Recreation and most of all the BLM absolutely de: lighted. The ORVers? Well, we probably got no wone than we deserved. And that's not to say that no one helped. CMDA, a lot of Harley deakrs, the guys from Tustin Honda, Sharon Clayton, Ran Hooper of SoCal M.C., Neil Manninen of Prospectors M.C., Chuck Hollingsworth and Bob Ham from Corva, plus a dozen or so clubs who sent checks of $100 to Hayes or CORPAC, and a number of other in· dividuals and businessmen who con· tributed money or time to the effort deserve the thanks of all of us for trying to pull off a Hayes victory. These fine people didn't come close to the effort which was raised by the envir~nme.ntalists, who wanted Hayes as therr pnme target. They got him. Or did we just give him to them? One thing is certain; Hayes' political career is far from over. Almost as soon as the dust settled, Wednesday morning, Hayes backers were discussing several other possibilities with him. (More on this as information develops). Interestingly enough, it was that hate call fr~~ the Sierra Club that buoyed his spm~ e~ough to consider staying in pub!lc h~e. The call just served to remmd hIm how many "direct hits" he scored on the Sierra Club in his two years in Sacramento. It only served to make him want to score a few more. We wish him well. I hope we can light ~ fire l;lnde~ a few more riders to jump m behmd hIm next time. In other races, ORVers fared a lot better. CORPAC made recommendations in 51 Assembly races, and we won in !l7 of those. We scored in 10 of the 12 State Senate races where recommendations were made, and 15 of the 20 Congressional races. Ronald Reagan's defeat of Jimmy Caner and his "wilderness" policies were another major victory for our interests. Nation-' wide, the fact that the Republicans took control of the U.S. Senate has effectively killed any chances of the Burton RARE II bill from getting through this year. We will get a fresh start next year when the new Congress convenes to develop a new RARE fI bill with considerably less wilderness. Now, there is some uncertainty whether we will be able to slow the BLM Desert Plan long enough for the new a.d~inistration to take over. Anyhow, It IS clear that the environmentalists are going to have less control of government at all levels as a result of the elections. We ~ailed to pull ~ff a few major upsets m the state legtslature. Besides losing the Hayes race, we had hoped to score some wins over some incumbent "posey-pluckers." A major effort was launched in Santa Barbara in an attempt to unseat Assemblyman Gary Hart. Our candidate, David Aquino ran.a strong race against Hart, but the environmentalists still seem to have a lock on Santa Barbara County. We had hoped to score big in the Santa Maria side of the district, but again none answered the call for helpers in Santa Maria. In another targeted race, we had hoped to elect Greg Morris to a vacant seat in Santa Clara County. Thanks to an effort by CORVA, we were able to turn out some helpers in this district but again it. was a case of not enough to. turn the tide of some late campaign tricks by the opposition. On the .other hand, we scored major successes m the 9th Assembly District where Assemblyman Bill Filante held out in a bitter reelection battle against some of the most radical environmentalists in the state. We also w~m ~ig in the targeted !lrd Assembly DIStrict, where Wally Herger will be the next assemblyman. The !lrd District formerly belonged to Gene Chappie who r~tired to run for Congress. Chapple scored a major victory in defeating a long time incumbent. While it will be terrific to have Chappie in Congress, it still won't be the same without him and Hayes taking care of us in Sacramento. We m~naged to keep Chip Pasheyan In the 17th Congressional Seat in Fresno County. Between Chip and Chappie, we should be able to keep the heat under the BLM and Forest Service. All in all, we won a lot more than we lost. We certainly will have a mOR favorable legislative climate in Sacra· mento next year. We will have to redevelop an effective lobbying machine to keep things moving. Without a Bob ~a~es to get things started, and move hIS Ideas along, we will have to depend on the efforts of the groups. Most of the actual lobbying effort has moved to Washington since Hayes was elected. Someone, AMA, CORVA, M.O.R.t., etc. going to have to plug tllat gap. Gettmg the good guys elected is only half the battle. Now someone has to show them what to do. With Hayes that wasn't a problem, he already knew what problems needed solving and he corrected them. r Undoubtably the Department of Pa~ks and .Re~real:.ion will be up to theIr old mISChief nght away. We wiU have to keep a close watch on their activities, particularly with RSpect to their plans. to overdevel~p the Hungry Valley P~Ject, and their plans to giw: substantial amounts of Green SticlUe • mo~ey to BLM for unneeded projects, It WIll take each of us to write letters to our ~ewly elected legislator/friends each trrne we detect an effort to misuse this fund. Speaking of the Department of Parts and Recreation, it should be mentioned that their Bond Proposition was passed by the voters. So far the Department has no intention of doing anything for off-roaders out of this money. They still owe the fund from a Bond Act which was passed in 1974. At that time, the voters were assured that we would get a project out of that money. Later when the fund was audited " it turned out that the Bond money had all been spent, and they "forgot" tp keep some for the ORV project. Now that they have a new Parklands bond act, do you think they will do the honorab.le ~hing and ma~e our project fiJlt pnonty? If you belteve they will, YQU haven't been paying attention. Still i,t wouldn't hurt to make a formal request. Write to the Parks and Recreation Commission at P.O. Box 2!l90, Sacramento, California 95811. Tell them that just ~use we are the only form of recreauon who must pay their o,:,"n .way for everything through green suckle, etc. there is still no reason why a statewide bond issue can't be used to help us. One final comment was received from the CORPAC people. After all the dust settled on their operations the final bills are more than the cash' that is. left in the till. They mailed 10,000 PIeces, made some $6500 worth of campaign donations, and are now several hu~d~. dollars in the hole. Any clu~ or mdi~duals who didn't" respond to the preVlous requests can still help get them out of the red, and get theID starte~ towards the 1982 elections by donaung now. How about committing to put on an annual CORPAC benefit event? Or collecting four bits from each rider in your events to the cause? Who knows? We miltht get Hayes or someone like him reelected. The address is CORPAC, Box 15052, Sacrame.nto, CA 9581!l. • !s C. N. Deepthroat