Action Alert: Pigs, Puppy Mills and loss of Democracy

What do pigs have to do with puppy mills you ask? Well nothing. But according to a Charlotte Observer newspaper article the N.C. Pork Council actively lobbied against the Puppy Mill bill. Why you ask? According to pork council’s lobbyist Angie Whitener her group does not oppose puppies so much as the bill’s main backers, the Humane Society of the United States.

Are you as outraged as we are that this powerful pork lobby is running the N.C. legislature? Representatives received thousands of calls from constituents asking their representatives to support the puppy mill bill. But when the Pork Council lobbied against the bill it was as good as dead. We need to contact our House Representatives and express our displeasure at the loss of our democracy in North Carolina.

Please take the time today to REPECTFULLY call your House Representative:
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Message to leave:
“My name is ___ and I am a constituent.  I am very concerned with the comments made by Pork Council lobbyist, Angie Whitener.  There was immense public support behind the Puppy Mill Bill.  How can the Pork Council override constituents? Angie said they killed the bill because Pork Council does not like the Humane Society.  But the pork council also lobbied against the exotic animal bill and Susie’s Law.  Neither was a Humane Society bill.  Why are they against all animal welfare bills? North Carolina has fallen far behind other states in animal welfare and it is embarrassing.”

After making this call please call Rep. William Wainwright at 919-733-5995. His influential position allowed him to play a part in killing the puppy mill bill.

Message to leave:
“I am extremely disappointed in Representative Wainwright’s efforts to kill the puppy mill bill.  Thousands of dogs will continue to suffer and the dog breeder industry will go unregulated because of his agenda.  I hope that if he remains in the general assembly after this November election he will reconsider his position. We need him to focus on our state agenda as Finance Committee Chairman, not the agenda of Joe McClees*”.

PLEASE CALL NOW!

* Joe McClees is a lobbyist for the North Carolina Sporting Dog Association and NRA that worked to kill the puppy mill bill.


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