Colorado’s First Gentleman Marlon Reis is back on Facebook trying to stir up a fight with livestock owners with claims that relocated wolves are suffering because of their “fairy tale” concerns.
But didn’t Reis just shut down his social media page a couple of weeks ago after another dustup with ranchers, PeakNation™ is asking?
Yes, he did, allegedly to prevent it from becoming a “forum for misinformation” over a completely different wolf topic.
Yet it looks like his shutdown never actually missed a day, judging by the slew of canned posts that proliferate Reis’s page.
This week’s hissy fit is over the capture and removal of the Copper Creek wolf pack that had developed a depredation history.
Reis is upset that Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW) employees didn’t act as PR agents for the wolves to protect the animal’s reputations and feels the apex predators were being unfairly criticized for (checks history) killing and eating livestock.
Meanwhile, the male of the pack had severe injuries unrelated to the transfer, and has since died, CPW reports.
In his recent post, Reis said:
“I’m sure CPW had its reasons for not openly celebrating the reintroduction, but its media silence created an information vacuum in which extreme anti-wolf sentiment was permitted to dominate the airwaves.
“When you don’t tell your side of the story, you allow your detractors to tell theirs without any accountability to the truth. And that’s what happened.
“We have all suffered from a lack of balanced coverage.
“Negative spin was modest at the start, but in the weeks leading up to the capture and removal of the Copper Creek pack, headlines invoking the nonsensical fairy tale fears of Little Red Riding Hood were everywhere to be found, and there was nothing positive to fall back on.
“Had CPW celebrated the past nine months rather than remain silent, milestone successes could have been channeled into a shield to defend the Copper Creek pack and the program as a whole. The wolves needed that protection against those who are now celebrating and taking credit for the dissolution of the Copper Creek pack.”
First Gentleman Marlon Reis thinks Colorado ranchers who object to the reintroduction of wolves are just “people who believe in fairy tales” and share the same “fears of Little Red Riding Hood.”
Is that how @jaredpolis sees rural Coloradans?#copolitics pic.twitter.com/uBZ3RuWKM9
— Kristi Burton Brown (@KBBColorado) September 10, 2024
Moving forward, Reis made it known to the government employees who answer to his partner, Gov. Polis, they must do “everything possible to ensure animals don’t suffer because of people who still believe in fairy tales.”
It’s unclear if Reis was referring to any specific Disney fairy tale in which deadly creatures coexist in harmony with their food and with humans. And talk to us, in English.
Last time we checked, the food chain is not a fairy tale.