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South Bend Tribune: No More Need for Doves to Duck
Published June 15, 2005. Editorial
Board. South Bend Tribune.
No more need for doves to duck
It was a coup. And it gives mourning doves something to coo about.
The people of Michigan are going to get what Gov. Jennifer Granholm said they should have: a chance to vote on whether the mourning dove, Michigan's official symbol of peace, is a song bird or a game bird.
Anyway, that was what Granholm said before she took flak from the hunting lobby and abandoned her position in favor of what she called a compromise. The governor signed a bill to allow the shooting of doves in southern counties, possibly to be expanded to statewide shooting later.
On June 2, the Michigan Board of State Canvassers certified the vote to place the issue on the ballot in November 2006. The coalition against dove shooting collected 275,000 petition signatures -- 73 percent more than the 159,000 required.
The shooting ban will be reinstated pending the referendum and then, we hope, permanently affixed.
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