I stand corrected that this guy is an employee. I think this Fish & Game Commission spot he holds is a volunteer position from what I have gathered, similar to my service on a local irrigation district board of directors in the past. However, it appears that the Commission elects their president. Basically, these positions on the commission are bought for a price, somewhere between $50,000-100,000. Don't you love the way government works!?

"California Assembly members, 40 Democrats, and the state’s Democratic lieutenant governor have asked Richards to resign his post on the California Fish and Game Commission, where Richards last month was elected president after a controversial vote. Wayne Pacelle, the leader of animal-rights activism as president and executive director of the Humane Society of the United States, led the resignation brigade charge."

Figures that Pacelle is sticking his nose where it doesn't belong as usual.