Thank you Mark Robison for your Reno Gazette Journal July 7th Fact checker article concerning the lack of truthfulness (4 of 10) of a letter to the editor by Mr. Fred Voltz about Nevada's bear hunting program.
Although my opinion on Nevada's bear hunting program has not been finalized, my opinion on Voltz’s candor and misrepresentation of the facts is confirmed.
Since moving to Nevada in 2010, Voltz has continued a pattern of misuse of the public forums, to misrepresent facts on various issues. The "bear letter" is but one more sorry example of this.
We should all welcome differences of opinion and the strength we gain as a nation and a State when we honestly consider both sides of a public policy issue. But when facts are twisted to enforce an opinion a great disservice is done to us all.
As former State Archivist and longtime Nevada Historian Guy Rocha likes to remind us: "We are all entitled to our opinions, but not our own facts. In turn, we are entitled to our opinions of the facts, but not our own facts based on our opinions” [from Oliver Wendell Holms]. These words seem appropriate here.