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PROPELLER · 02-07-2005, 04:37 PM

No one has answered you because no one knows for sure unless you ask the sponsors themselves. The sponsors are legislators & have no personal experience with these issues that I am aware of. Just that some one or more than one came to them requesting that a bill be written to ban rafting. The LSR does not tell why they have proposed it.

There was an article linked to a previous thread (I can not remember what thread but it was about banning rafting in a cove, look under threads frank m responded to). One of the reasons given for not wanting rafting according to the newspaper article was that the property owners view was impaired by the rafting boats. This also was a reason given by someone who e-mailed one of the sponsors of this new bill as this e-mail was read at the hearing by one of the sponsors.

Based on threads I have followed here, what I hear from people around the lake & connecting the dots it seems to me that the supporters of the ban use reasons like partying, noise, no access to their dock as reasons but reading between the lines I think the real reason is many supporters of the ban just don't like rafting or they don't like boats in front of their property. Its also possible they are lashing out at the owners of bigger cruisers that they don't like as that is a very common boat you see rafting on the lake.

If you are interested in specific details, you can call the sponsors & ask them.

02-07-2005, 04:37 PM	#29
PROPELLER Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2004 Posts: 340 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	JDeere??? No one has answered you because no one knows for sure unless you ask the sponsors themselves. The sponsors are legislators & have no personal experience with these issues that I am aware of. Just that some one or more than one came to them requesting that a bill be written to ban rafting. The LSR does not tell why they have proposed it. There was an article linked to a previous thread (I can not remember what thread but it was about banning rafting in a cove, look under threads frank m responded to). One of the reasons given for not wanting rafting according to the newspaper article was that the property owners view was impaired by the rafting boats. This also was a reason given by someone who e-mailed one of the sponsors of this new bill as this e-mail was read at the hearing by one of the sponsors. Based on threads I have followed here, what I hear from people around the lake & connecting the dots it seems to me that the supporters of the ban use reasons like partying, noise, no access to their dock as reasons but reading between the lines I think the real reason is many supporters of the ban just don't like rafting or they don't like boats in front of their property. Its also possible they are lashing out at the owners of bigger cruisers that they don't like as that is a very common boat you see rafting on the lake. If you are interested in specific details, you can call the sponsors & ask them.