Sportsmen's group leader resigns from state hunting council

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Madison — The president of a controversial sportsmen's group that won and then lost a $500,000 state grant resigned Monday from a state hunting and fishing council.

Andy Pantzlaff and the United Sportsmen of Wisconsin Foundation Inc. won the state grant to promote hunting and fishing in the state only to see it canceled by Gov. Scott Walker earlier this month after the Journal Sentinel reported that the group lacked federal non-profit status and Pantzlaff had been cited in 2005 for shooting a trophy black bear without the proper license.

The Sporting Heritage Council was created by an April 2012 law to advise Walker on hunting and fishing issues. Pantzlaff, at that time a board member of the Wisconsin Bear Hunters Association, was appointed to a three-year term on the council as its bear-hunting representative by the state Department of Natural Resources board in February.

Pantzlaff resigned from his council position in a one-sentence email sent to DNR assistant deputy secretary Scott Gunderson on Monday afternoon.

"With much regret I resign my position on the (council)," Pantzlaff wrote.

http://www.jsonline.com/news/statepolitics/sportsmens-group-leader-resigns-from-state-hunting-council-b99104873z1-224936022.html

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1. Me thinks Andy Pantzlaff should just resign from the human race (humanity).

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2. Money laundering for Walker... (Cog Dis)

http://cognidissidence.blogspot.com/2013/09/pantzlaff-plays-scapegoat-for-failed.html

Tuesday, September 24, 2013

Pantzlaff Plays Scapegoat For Failed Money Laundering Scheme
Andy Pantzlaff was the figurehead for the sketchy group called United Sportsman of Wisconsin, which turned out to be nothing but a money laundering operation that would have taken taxpayer dollars attained through a corrupt dealing by Scott Suder and Scott Walker and used it to funnel it back as campaign donations. When the story broke open, Walker quickly distanced himself from the group and called off the grant - for now anyway.

Now we find that Pantzlaff has resigned from the state board that he sat on, which he used to channel the money to his group (no conflict of interest to see here, folks):

The head of the politically connected sportsmen’s group that won — and quickly lost — a $500,000 state grant after misrepresenting its tax-exempt status has resigned from his post on the state’s Sporting Heritage Council.

“With much regret I resign my position on the SHC,” United Sportsmen of Wisconsin president Andy Pantzlaff wrote Monday in a brief email to Scott Gunderson, the executive assistant at the state Department of Natural Resources.

The Sporting Heritage Council advises Gov. Scott Walker, the Natural Resources Board and Legislature on fishing, hunting and trapping issues. The 12-member council focuses on recruitment, retention and increasing access to resources and outdoor opportunities.
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United Sportsmen has since issued a statement saying Pantzlaff had not consulted with the group’s legal counsel and “was mistaken about the exemption process.”

I would advise the gentle reader to not become too excited over this news. It is not justice being done. It is a red herring to distract one's attention from the fact that justice is indeed not being carried out.