http://www.dailybulletin.com/20120306/critics-of-move-to-oust-fish-and-game-commissioner-did-same-five-years-ago
“Mr. Hanna’s behavior has raised serious questions about his suitability to hold this position,” the letter said, adding: “He has become an outspoken advocate seeking to achieve his own personal objectives by influencing the commission’s actions.” ….
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Mike Sutton is the Executive Director, Audubon California. Audubon is one of the sponsors of AB711.
Let his record speak for him. I don’t consider him a sportsman either.
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Jennifer Fearing, State Director for HSUS another sponsor of AB711, continues to blame lead ammo on condor problem. scientific testing has shown that the current ban on lead ammunition has not resulted in significantly lowering the blood lead levels in condors. in fact, one major scientific study challenges the validity of prior research and whether hunters’ lead ammunition is really the problem!

supporters of the lead ban are completely ignoring the possibility of another source of lead, even though it was once found that the stillborn calves put out at condor feeding stations at the time were contaminated with lead and were, in fact, the real culprit!

www. Huntfortruth.org
When California enacted a limited lead ammunition ban in 2008, some members of the Condor recovery community were skeptical about the implementation of an anti-lead regulation. Chris Parish, head of The Peregrine Fund’s condor recovery operation in Arizona, said the following: “You’ll find that the people behind the ban were not the ones doing the work on the ground actually talking to and working with hunters. Many who have advocated for a ban could care less about your and my ability to hunt.”
Perhaps those who actually work with Condors know something the outside advocacy groups either do not know or are unwilling to admit: hunting benefits condor recovery. Without hunters, millions of wildlife preservation and enhancement funds would disappear; hunters pay license fees and a very large (10% or more) tax on firearms and ammunition. Those funds, which total hundreds of millions of dollars each year, are one of the key funding sources for programs like, and including, the California Condor Recovery Program. Without these funds, the tenuous progress of Condor recovery might be lost.

AB711 relates to politics not science or condors.