jf: The membership of the panel was carefully-designed 

Are people really that clever, really that capable?

jf: "I coined the phrase "Pollinator Protection Racket" years ago,
long before beekeepers as a group realized that they were being taken for a
ride by some of the fund-raising machines."

And one NY State commercial beekeeper thought from the very beginning that the name should really be The Pesticide Protection Plan. I'll let him name himself.

"some of them Like Jim Doan are from out 
> of the state or out of the area  and don't 
> pay any local taxes???   "

Jim Doan is a NY State resident, born and raised. May not keep his own hives in NY very much, but his residence is NY.

James Fischer, you and Jim Doan share many opinions. Maybe you two should put your heads together and work up a unified position and force.

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