bradymsu
09-10-2008, 05:46 PM
Many of your state elected officials received their first communication recently from the Humane Society of the United States regarding CWD and the baiting ban. HSUS is supportive of the baiting ban and the closing all captive cervid operations in the state. HSUS has hired a multi-client lobbyist in Lansing and has to date spent over $70,000 on lobbying costs at our state capital.
For those of you unfamiliar with HSUS, the group is the largest animal rights organization in the United States. The group is on record as supporting outlawing all forms of hunting, animal agriculture and pet ownership. Despite their misleading name, the group has no connection to local humane socieities or the Michigan Humane Society and it does not operate animal shelters. This group is far more dangerous to your hunting rights than PETA.
HSUS is very crafty in how it goes about its long term goal of outlawing hunting. Instead of taking obvious anti-hunting positions the group will look for disagreements among hunters on issues such as baiting, trapping, the use of dogs, crossbows and license fee increases and support those positions that will lead to a decrease in the number of people hunting. The long term goal of the organization is to reduce the number of people hunting in a state so that it can successfully pass broad anti-hunting measures on future state ballots and in future state legislatures.
Apart from the issues mentioned above, it is suspected that HSUS may have been involved in Michigan legislation last year that would have outlawed leghold traps and recently introduced legislation that would impose draconian licensing requirement on any family that sells more than two puppies per year as a result of breeding a family pet.
HSUS often prefers to work undercover using its members in Michigan to pose as concerned sportsmen or pet owners to sell its agenda to the public. A numbers of legislators have likely already been approached by HSUS through their constituents without knowing the constituent has any involvement with the organization.
Please do your own reasearch on HSUS on the internet. Then, contact your state representative and state senator by e-mail to educate them about HSUS, request that they not accept any campaign contributions from HSUS and be wary of HSUS involvement in any legislation that would increase regulation of pet owners in Michigan or result in the loss or continued decrease of hunters in Michigan.
You can locate your state representative at: http://house.michigan.gov/find_a_rep.asp
You can locate your state senator at:
http://senate.michigan.gov/SenatorInfo/find-your-senator.htm
The state campaign finance disclosure information for HSUS can be found at: http://miboecfr.nicusa.com/cgi-bin/cfr/lobby_detail.cgi?lobby_id%3D6430%26last_match%3D%2 6exp_last_match%3D%26lobby_seq_no%3D%26lobby_type% 3D%2A%26lobby_name%3DHUMANE%26include%3Dactive%26s how_employees%3DY#EMP
For those of you unfamiliar with HSUS, the group is the largest animal rights organization in the United States. The group is on record as supporting outlawing all forms of hunting, animal agriculture and pet ownership. Despite their misleading name, the group has no connection to local humane socieities or the Michigan Humane Society and it does not operate animal shelters. This group is far more dangerous to your hunting rights than PETA.
HSUS is very crafty in how it goes about its long term goal of outlawing hunting. Instead of taking obvious anti-hunting positions the group will look for disagreements among hunters on issues such as baiting, trapping, the use of dogs, crossbows and license fee increases and support those positions that will lead to a decrease in the number of people hunting. The long term goal of the organization is to reduce the number of people hunting in a state so that it can successfully pass broad anti-hunting measures on future state ballots and in future state legislatures.
Apart from the issues mentioned above, it is suspected that HSUS may have been involved in Michigan legislation last year that would have outlawed leghold traps and recently introduced legislation that would impose draconian licensing requirement on any family that sells more than two puppies per year as a result of breeding a family pet.
HSUS often prefers to work undercover using its members in Michigan to pose as concerned sportsmen or pet owners to sell its agenda to the public. A numbers of legislators have likely already been approached by HSUS through their constituents without knowing the constituent has any involvement with the organization.
Please do your own reasearch on HSUS on the internet. Then, contact your state representative and state senator by e-mail to educate them about HSUS, request that they not accept any campaign contributions from HSUS and be wary of HSUS involvement in any legislation that would increase regulation of pet owners in Michigan or result in the loss or continued decrease of hunters in Michigan.
You can locate your state representative at: http://house.michigan.gov/find_a_rep.asp
You can locate your state senator at:
http://senate.michigan.gov/SenatorInfo/find-your-senator.htm
The state campaign finance disclosure information for HSUS can be found at: http://miboecfr.nicusa.com/cgi-bin/cfr/lobby_detail.cgi?lobby_id%3D6430%26last_match%3D%2 6exp_last_match%3D%26lobby_seq_no%3D%26lobby_type% 3D%2A%26lobby_name%3DHUMANE%26include%3Dactive%26s how_employees%3DY#EMP