Topic: Another Idiot in the News
Lynann's photo
Fri 03/06/09 05:59 PM
Hummm I wonder if this instructor posts on Mingle2? Sounds alot like one or two of the regulars here.

By RANDY KREHBIEL World Staff Writer
Published: 3/6/2009 1:31 PM
Last Modified: 3/6/2009 7:31 PM

Thirteen-year-old Lane Dunkley just wanted to go hunting with his grandfather.

What he got was a lecture on politics.

Dunkley and his father Daniel Reddy, who live in Tulsa, went to Broken Arrow Tuesday night for a hunter safety course normally required to get an Oklahoma hunting license.

The class was a reward of sorts. Dunkley, who wants to go hunting with his aging grandfather, was told he could only if he brought his grades up.

So he did - to a B-plus average.

But when father and son arrived at the lesson, the volunteer instructor, Kell Wolf, asked if any of the students voted for President Obama.

Reddy, a transplanted Californian - and ex-Marine - raised his hand.

According to Reddy and others in the room, Wolf called Obama “the next thing to the Anti-Christ” and ordered Reddy and Dunkley from the room. When Reddy refused, Wolf said he would not teach “liberals” and would cancel the course if Reddy didn’t leave.

So Reddy and Dunkley left, as did a few others.

Lance Meek, hunter education coordinator for the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation, said Wolf had been a volunteer instructor for “a long time, probably 15 years or more” and “from what we’ve heard and observed, had always done a great job. He worked with the kids really well.”

But when Meek received a call Wednesday morning - from someone other than the Reddys - he said he had no choice.

“I got the call at 8:30, and by 9 o’clock (Wolf) was no
longer a volunteer for us," Meek said.

Contacted Friday, Wolf had no comment on the matter. Meek said when he talked briefly to Wolf on Wednesday, Wolf did not deny ordering Reddy from the class or offer an explanation.

Stacy Reddy, Daniel Reddy’s wife and Lane Dunkley’s mother, said the family was surprised by how quickly the Wildlife Department acted.

“Lance Meek called and apologized up and down and wanted to know what they could do to make it right,” she said. “The only thing we really wanted was for my son to be able to take the hunter safety course, and there wasn’t another one in the Tulsa area with an opening for the rest of 2009.”

So Meek arranged for a private class.

Read more of this story in tomorrow's Tulsa World.
http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/article.aspx?subjectid=11&articleid=20090306_11_0_Thirte948209

yellowrose10's photo
Fri 03/06/09 06:03 PM
slaphead

so they wouldn't teach someone that voted for Obama....and I still can't learn to shoot even though I didn't vote for Obama....grumble

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Fri 03/06/09 06:05 PM
Edited by dantaylor28 on Fri 03/06/09 06:05 PM

slaphead

so they wouldn't teach someone that voted for Obama....and I still can't learn to shoot even though I didn't vote for Obama....grumble



thats because they are affraid to give you a firearm rose . sorry couldnt resist.frustrated

yellowrose10's photo
Fri 03/06/09 06:07 PM


slaphead

so they wouldn't teach someone that voted for Obama....and I still can't learn to shoot even though I didn't vote for Obama....grumble



thats because they are affraid to give you a firearm rose . sorry couldnt resist.frustrated


brb

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Fri 03/06/09 06:32 PM
Geezuz, good thing it wasn't' me they kicked out, I wouldn't have left so quietly.

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Fri 03/06/09 09:15 PM
How does someone so ignorant get into a position of teaching, let alone about hunter safety?

I bet he won't make that mistake again.