It seems you can’t trust anyone anymore. Not even when you are exercising your right as an American citizen to contact your representative and express your thoughts about a bill.
On March 5 I posted the latest SAOVA newsletter to the Tennessee Pet-Law list with the following message:
A sampling of legislators has been selected for a special campaign to request they WITHDRAW their support from PUPS. Included are legislators previously endorsed by SAOVA who have strayed. Others profess to be conservatives yet added their names to this expensive, invasive animal rights bill. Some are Congressional Sportsmen’s Caucus members. Visit the SAOVA campaign page, click and email these legislators and ask them to STOP supporting the PUPS bill. http://www.saova.org/PUPS.Campaign.html
On March 7 a Pet-Law member reported that he sent a friend to the SAOVA web site. She also clicked on a link to humanewatch.org. After contacting her congressman, Rep. Allen West, at 5:04 pm, to ask him to withdraw support for PUPS, she received a “Welcome” message from HSUS at 5:11 pm.
One such occurrence is interesting. More than one is suspicious.
On March 9 a long-time Tennessee Pet-Law member reported that he had been signed up as an HSUS member:
WTF?? I just received an email thanking me for signing up with HSUS? You have got to be kidding. I wonder what bozo thought I would be interested in that bunch???
When asked if he had contacted any legislators recently he replied:
As a matter of fact, I did respond to the recent request to email various legislators to withdraw support for the PUPS bill. Does someone think they can get us poor misguided souls to see the light if they sign us up for their propaganda? But in my view, NOBODY has the right to put my email on someone's list without my permission.
It’s starting to look like HSUS has moles placed in the offices of certain legislators. They may be diverting e-mails and stealing e-mail addresses. Who knows if the messages people are sending about PUPS are even reaching anyone impartial, or if they are being deleted as fast as people send them.
You can try to contact your legislator and voice your concerns but I don’t know if it will do any good. If an HSUS mole reads your e-mail or answers the phone, it won’t do much good.
If you have heard from HSUS after contacting a legislator, please let us know in the comments section. We’d like to know how widespread this problem is.
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The good news is, because you know which legislators you contacted, you know which offices are responsible for forwarding your contact information, without consent, to be included in a private organization's membership rolls.
ReplyDeleteYour next contact with that state legislature should be the ethics committee!
We know in Virginia that there are legislative aides who buy the AR line, whether they are plants or not. There are at least three we don't even bother to talk to because our messages will not get through to the legislator in question. One of them was MY senator and he was horrified to learn that his LA had been seen having lunch and a good old time with the ARs. He confronted her, she said it was a one-time thing (because there were "not any empty tables in the cafeteria") and he told us it would not happen again. He is no longer my senator (redistricting) but it will be interesting to aee if I am able to get in to see him next year. For the past three years, he has never had time, according to the LA. Another LA convinced the delegate she worked for to carry a bill banning debarking, and a third haughtily informed us that she thought even people who bred ONE litter ONE time should be inspected. We don't bother to try to get through to those legislators. Trust me, they would NOT get our emails and certainly would never have time to see us!
ReplyDeleteThis is indeed the problem. I found that to be the case once when visiting a Congressman in DC. He introduced me to his main aide and during our conversation it became clear she was a friend/follower of the HSUS.
ReplyDeleteI believe it is extremely important for us to determine which legislators are on our side and which are not and then proceed to educate others so we can vote those AR-types out. Congress and the Senate write the laws and pass the laws. That is where we have to work. After all, HSUS has declared they have Congress in their pocket.