Colorado Politics: Colorado Parks and Wildlife Commissioners Jessica Beaulieu and Jack Murphy were sued by Safari Club and the Sportsmen’s Alliance for violating open meetings laws. The state of Colorado has now reached a settlement with the groups after Beaulieu and Murphy penned an opinion piece supporting a ballot measure to ban “trophy hunting” of mountain lions, bobcat and lynx. The problem wasn’t their opposition to hunting, the factual errors the piece contained, or even their identification of themselves as commissioners in an effort to sway voters, but the communication that must have taken place between the two, which violates open meeting laws.

Colorado Parks and Wildlife Commissioners Jessica Beaulieu and Jack Murphy were sued by Safari Club and the Sportsmen’s Alliance for violating open meetings laws. The state of Colorado has now reached a settlement with the groups after Beaulieu and Murphy penned an opinion piece supporting a ballot measure to ban “trophy hunting” of mountain lions, bobcat and lynx. The problem wasn’t their opposition to hunting, the factual errors the piece contained, or even their identification of themselves as commissioners in an effort to sway voters, but the communication that must have taken place between the two, which violates open meeting laws.

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