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September 29, 2008. A SAOVA message to sportsmen, pet owners and farmers concerned
about protecting their traditions, avocations and livelihoods from anti-hunting, anti-breeding,
animal guardianship advocates. Forwarding and cross posting, with attribution, encouraged.
For Immediate Release
Sportsmen and Animal Owners Endorse Senator Sarah Palin
The Sportsmen’s and Animal Owners’ Voting Alliance (SAOVA) today endorsed Sarah Palin
for Vice President. The McCain-Palin ticket best aligns with the views of Americans who
hunt, fish, own and breed animals and are aware of animal rightist organizations’ intentions to
remove these rights.
From Humane Society Legislative Fund (HSUS)
The McCain campaign did not fill out the HSLF presidential questionnaire, and has also not issued
any public statements on animal welfare issues. He was silent during the downed animal scandal and
beef recall, which played out during a high-point in the primary fight. Yet he did speak at the NRA
convention earlier this year, and is the keynote speaker this weekend in Columbus, Ohio, at the U.S.
Sportsmen's Alliance rally an extremist organization that defends the trophy hunting of threatened
polar bears and captive shooting of tame animals inside fenced pens.
While McCain's positions on animal protection have been lukewarm, his choice of running mate
cemented our decision to oppose his ticket. Gov. Sarah Palin's (R-Alaska) retrograde policies on
animal welfare and conservation have led to an all-out war on Alaska's wolves and other creatures.
Her record is so extreme that she has perhaps done more harm to animals than any other current
governor in the United States.
Palin engineered a campaign of shooting predators from airplanes and helicopters, in order to
artificially boost the populations of moose and caribou for trophy hunters. She offered a $150 bounty
for the left foreleg of each dead wolf as an economic incentive for pilots and aerial gunners to kill
more of the animals, even though Alaska voters had twice approved a ban on the practice. This year,
the issue was up again for a vote of the people, and Palin led the fight against it -- in fact, she helped
to spend $400,000 of public funds to defeat the initiative.
What's more, when the Bush Administration announced its decision to list the polar bear as
threatened under the Endangered Species Act, Palin filed a lawsuit to reverse that decision. She said
it's the "wrong move" to protect polar bears, even though their habitat is shrinking and ice floes are
vanishing due to global warming.
The choice for animals is especially clear now that Palin is in the mix. If Palin is put in a position to
succeed McCain, it could mean rolling back decades of progress on animal issues.
about protecting their traditions, avocations and livelihoods from anti-hunting, anti-breeding,
animal guardianship advocates. Forwarding and cross posting, with attribution, encouraged.
For Immediate Release
Sportsmen and Animal Owners Endorse Senator Sarah Palin
The Sportsmen’s and Animal Owners’ Voting Alliance (SAOVA) today endorsed Sarah Palin
for Vice President. The McCain-Palin ticket best aligns with the views of Americans who
hunt, fish, own and breed animals and are aware of animal rightist organizations’ intentions to
remove these rights.
From Humane Society Legislative Fund (HSUS)
The McCain campaign did not fill out the HSLF presidential questionnaire, and has also not issued
any public statements on animal welfare issues. He was silent during the downed animal scandal and
beef recall, which played out during a high-point in the primary fight. Yet he did speak at the NRA
convention earlier this year, and is the keynote speaker this weekend in Columbus, Ohio, at the U.S.
Sportsmen's Alliance rally an extremist organization that defends the trophy hunting of threatened
polar bears and captive shooting of tame animals inside fenced pens.
While McCain's positions on animal protection have been lukewarm, his choice of running mate
cemented our decision to oppose his ticket. Gov. Sarah Palin's (R-Alaska) retrograde policies on
animal welfare and conservation have led to an all-out war on Alaska's wolves and other creatures.
Her record is so extreme that she has perhaps done more harm to animals than any other current
governor in the United States.
Palin engineered a campaign of shooting predators from airplanes and helicopters, in order to
artificially boost the populations of moose and caribou for trophy hunters. She offered a $150 bounty
for the left foreleg of each dead wolf as an economic incentive for pilots and aerial gunners to kill
more of the animals, even though Alaska voters had twice approved a ban on the practice. This year,
the issue was up again for a vote of the people, and Palin led the fight against it -- in fact, she helped
to spend $400,000 of public funds to defeat the initiative.
What's more, when the Bush Administration announced its decision to list the polar bear as
threatened under the Endangered Species Act, Palin filed a lawsuit to reverse that decision. She said
it's the "wrong move" to protect polar bears, even though their habitat is shrinking and ice floes are
vanishing due to global warming.
The choice for animals is especially clear now that Palin is in the mix. If Palin is put in a position to
succeed McCain, it could mean rolling back decades of progress on animal issues.
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