18 Quotes by Eric Draper

We spend more time opposing bad bills now than we did in the past. The Legislature is awful compared to what it used to be.

There's an ongoing kind of resistance movement to Babcock. But I don't think they have the juice to deliver.

It seems to give kind of a very open-ended permission ... to basically manage the ranch for an economic purpose. It's lost the balance between economic and ecological.

It's a great budget for the environment, it really is. It's more money than they've ever put into the environment.

It's a local project that got a big chunk of money and then had problems. Members don't forget that.

It used to be that we really were opponents on a lot of policy issues. We weren't listening to each other.

The increase they're looking for appears to be more than they would probably get.

You want to help these cowboys that have been out there managing the ranch very well to keep doing that. These people working on the ranch would keep their jobs. Where are you going to find another ranch job? These people - that's their life.

The Legislature should stop second-guessing the will of the voters.