{"id":1792,"date":"2014-02-26T01:38:00","date_gmt":"2014-02-26T01:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/2014\/02\/26\/the-roadkill-platfor\/"},"modified":"2019-08-16T18:23:45","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T18:23:45","slug":"the-roadkill-platfor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=1792","title":{"rendered":"The Roadkill Platform"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:12151,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.tinks.com\\\/shopping\\\/departments\\\/deer-lures.aspx&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/tinks.com\\\/shopping\\\/departments\\\/deer-lures.aspx&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:12152,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/blogs.dallasobserver.com\\\/unfairpark\\\/2014\\\/02\\\/texas_roadkill_ban_tink_nathan.php&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.dallasobserver.com\\\/unfairpark\\\/2014\\\/02\\\/texas_roadkill_ban_tink_nathan.php&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:12153,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.tinknathan.com&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>\nIf you are a deer hunter and you have ever used scent products, you know of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tinks.com\/shopping\/departments\/deer-lures.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tink&#8217;s #69 Doe-in-Rut deer scent.<\/a> It is the most famous of products developed by Tink Nathan. Now Mr. Nathan is looking beyond just deer scents and lures to politics. He is a candidate for the Texas House of Representatives running as a Republican.<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/tinkNathan.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/tinkNathan.jpg\" height=\"400\" width=\"298\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>His platform? Roadkill! More specifically, an end to the prohibition in Texas on picking up roadkill for human consumption.<\/p>\n<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dallasobserver.com\/unfairpark\/2014\/02\/texas_roadkill_ban_tink_nathan.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dallas Observer<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"tr_bq\"><p>\n<i>He&#8217;s also the only candidate, apparently in the entire state, bold enough stand up and defend Texans&#8217; God-given right to eat animals they run over in their cars.<\/p>\n<p>As it stands, picking up roadkill is a crime. Partly, this is because of health-and-safety concerns (hard to know what vile pathogens might be swarming over any given carcass), partly it&#8217;s to discourage people from using their cars as hunting weapons. (This has actually been documented. In a 2012 Dallas Morning News story, a state game warden&#8217;s staffer recalled a couple of incidents in which motorists intentionally ran over exotic deer in Kerr County, right in Nathan&#8217;s backyard.)<\/p>\n<p>Nathan thinks that scavenging roadkill is a personal decision best left up to a driver and the critter he just flattened. There&#8217;s no need for the government to stick its nose in.<\/p>\n<p>Besides, he told the San Antonio Express-News, why should buzzards be the only ones to benefit from the frequent animal-car collisions that occur by the thousands on Texas roads. &#8220;That meat goes to waste,&#8221; Nathan says. &#8220;Why not utilize it?&#8221;<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I think he might have a point. In other states it is legal and oft times fresh (emphasis on fresh) roadkill is taken to charitable food pantries for distribution.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tinknathan.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Besides, I like his campaign slogan<\/a> &#8211; &#8220;Don&#8217;t Send Another Lawyer To Austin&#8221; &#8211; not to mention the fact he is a Life Member of the NRA. <\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you are a deer hunter and you have ever used scent products, you know of Tink&#8217;s #69 Doe-in-Rut&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[21,1696,604,2691],"class_list":["post-1792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-humor","tag-roadkill","tag-texas","tag-tink-nathan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1792"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9751,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1792\/revisions\/9751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}