Boise, IDAHO (Enviro Snowflake Brief)— Friday morning, at the state capital, Idaho Republican Rep. Christy Zito lead the approval in the House to shift $200,000 from the K-6 education fund to purchase and distribute 40,000 copies of Little Red Riding Hood to legal age Idaho voters for educational purposes.
The bold move comes less than 24 hours after lawmakers advanced legislation to keep operating an Idaho Wolf Control Board that manages money to pay a federal and state agency to kill wolves.
Idahoan politician’s insatiable appetite to empower the ranching and hunting “mob like” obsession to kill wolves at the expense of a balanced ecosystem has a new grassroots strategy for the future.
The state Senate is expected to rubber stamp the Little Red Riding Hood funding initiative, and most political insiders in Boise presume a quick signature from Republican Gov. Little.
Fear mongering Rep. Zito said from the capital steps, “I am concerned, and if you love your children, you should be too. Wolves will move into areas where people live. They will start to see humans as part of the food chain.”
Rep. Zito explained, “Idaho is already 48th in education. We can’t really fall far, yet, we are #1 in killing wolves so let’s protect our infamy and our children.”
She added, “The reading level of this educational and historically accurate book is appropriate for our most passionate wolf killing constitutes.”
Environmental advocates are appalled. Eric Molvar, Western Watersheds Project, released a statement. “We are stunned by the egregious use of Idaho education funds to be diverted to another wildlife science denying campaign about wolves. Moreover, Rep. Zito’s premise about wolves eating children is as plausible as Little Red Riding Hood eating the wolf and making her grandmother clean it up.”
Republican Rep. Laurie Lickley, who sponsored the recent legislation to continue the Wolf Control Board funding by the state (at a cost of $9,000/wolf killed), ran to defend Rep. Zito.
“To all you naysayers and snowflakes out there, you do know we have video evidence that wolves kill elk and actually eat them alive… we’re trying to stop them. Why would you think you or your neighbor wouldn’t be next? Like it or not, as beautiful an animal as wolves are, you can’t deny what happened to Little Red Riding Hood,” exclaimed Lickley.
Looking at Idaho in fiscal 2018, Wildlife Services killed 83 wolves for the state, on top of hunters killing 179 wolves, and trappers tortured then killed another 133 in the calendar year.
The Idaho state motto is “It Is Perpetual,” which seems to be the case when it comes to killing wolves, whether in 1902 or 2019 in Idaho.
