Greg Rothman

Uh, Senator Dan Laughlin, who, who has been working it for 10 years, uh, pushing the, pushing the, uh, the bill through and continuing to, to press for it.

Uh, we had Senator Greg Rothman, who chaired the Game and Fish Committee, a Republican, who worked hand-in-hand with Mandy Steele and, um, Senator Malone from Lancaster to get it done.

It is truly...

This was a bipartisan, um, bill, a bipartisan topic that just took the right confluence of events and the right partners getting involved.

I appreciate you having me on tonight.

Uh, we're talking about the legislation that was introduced by Pennsylvania Legislative Sportsmen's Caucus, uh, co-chair, Senator Greg Rothman.

Uh, Senator Rothman is the sponsor there in the Senate and the co-chair there in the Senate.

And what his legislation is doing is something very similar to what the Motor Voter Act, um, created there.

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In fact, it was so funny that, uh, one of the gentlemen there said, "I'm a nice guy.

Don't throw anything at me." I was like, "Eh, I'm not here to throw anything."

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But you are presenting exactly the reason the Republican Party should exist.

Yeah.

Uh, I, yeah, well I'm pretty friendly with the guy at the state level, Greg Rothman, and yet we don't get any response.

Somebody's going to have to do something here in Philadelphia-

sense.

We're going to get to that here in just a second, and I have some clips of Greg Rothman and some other senators in my last episode with Philip Light on the WMI that shed some light on those motives because that's what keeps me up at night and has, and I'm going to get to that.

Well, and let me make one more comment there.

Another thing I found in the past year when I was researching this, Jim, was when the state of PA has secured linear feet of access on a stream, the ones that come to mind are there's a Black Lit Creek or a North Black Lit Creek and then Pine Creek up in Potter County.

It's public lands, God damn it.

Like people want, people love this shit.

like um so you know it gets back to this motive that you're talking about like why the hell do i have a clip of greg rothman in my last podcast saying it's a bad thing that has a half a billion dollars in reserves and and the other uh senator's name escapes you saying we need to tax you more on public land and public land should be taxed more and you shouldn't be buying your there's a loophole and you know you're you're like why Why do they not like, why do their statements lead all of us to believe when we see them that they don't like when public agencies that are programs that are insanely popular, like SGLs, why do they not like when they acquire land? Well, that's where the objective statements that they are on video, you know, what would you say subjectively interpreted, but the statements that are on video of them saying We can say with a high degree of certainty voicing that they don't think that the funds that buy these public lands or the purchase of them are a quote unquote good thing.

Why is that the case? This is where we have to jump from the record to now we're left to our speculation.

You guys are in the shadows.

Well, Alante, I started to do this, but I promise you, given your energy, devotion, and just your talent, that I have to ask every one of the Trump people and Greg Rothman when he's on, what are you guys going to do about what goes on here in Philadelphia? In other words, the National Party could decertify them.

He knows who I am.

I've been

told by people close to him and he hasn't.

And so Senator Greg Rothman, State Senator Greg, if you hear this, reach out to Flip Philly Red.

It's not like we're opposed to working with the party.

We want to make...