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ACTION ALERT: HB 2525 Is in serious jeopardy in the PA House Agriculture Committee. Show your support for the animals!

June 19, 2008 : 9:42 PM

The Committee members are being bombarded with calls, emails, letters, and visits from breeders all over the state.

From Sarah Speed, HSUS

The breeders are howling so loudly that the dogs are being drowned out! Breeders have filled the room at every hearing and even our supporters on the committee are balking under the pressure and claiming that HB 2525 is unnecessary.

On Tuesday June 24 the House Judiciary Committee will be voting whether to outlaw breeders from performing their own surgical births, debarking, and tail docking in HB 2532 in room Irvis G-50 at 10:00am. On that same day in the same room the House Agriculture Committee may be having a vote on HB 2525.

WHAT YOU CAN DO
* We need warm bodies in those seats to come early and give the animals a voice!!!!

* We also need calls to go into the House Agriculture Committee members to let them know that the animals cannot be forgotten for the breeders greed!

House Agricultural Committee Members:

Mike Hanna - 717-772-2283

Gary Haluska - 717-783-7548

David Kessler - 717-787-2769

Mike Carroll - 717-787-3589

Mark Cohen - 717-787-4117

Scott Conklin - 717-787-9473

Richard Grucela - 717-783-3180

Peter Daley - 717-783-7558

Harold James - 717-787-7517

Babette Josephs - 717-787-8529

Tim Mahoney - 717-772-2174

John Myers - 717-787-3181

Frank Oliver - 717-787-3480

Tim Solobay - 717-705-1887

Tom Yewcic - 717-783-0248

Rosita Youngblood - 717-787-7727

Art Hershey - 717-783-6435

Bob Bastian - 717-783-8756

Mike Fleck - 717-787-3335

Karen Boback - 717-787-1117

Michelle Brooks - 717-783-5008

Gordon Denlinger - 717-787-3531

Jim Cox - 717-772-2435

David Hickernell - 717-783-2076

Rob Kauffman - 717-705-1951

Mark Keller - 717-705-7012

David Millard - 717-772-0094

Dan Moul - 717-783-5217

Tina Pickett - 717-705-1949

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Image courtesy of MLAR
Posted by Nicole, PA Team Leader

Comments

July 1, 2008 at 6:17 AM
posted by: JadeComputerGal

I'm really a bit worn out with people putting down our state officials with no justification. I have wonderful ones. I find Steve Barrar and Tom Creighton to be absolutely above-board, caring, and genuine. (One is a Representative and the other is a Senator.) Maybe the other PA state politicians are scum, but I haven't experienced that, and I've been in states where the politicians are certainly scum.

Have any of you actually read this bill? I have. It's a sweeping, 92 page piece of legislation, some of it badly worded. It takes time to work out things like this. It would be great if it were possible to pass a bill that says, "Animals will no longer be abused," but legislation doesn't work that way. It has to be introduced, then amended, then amended again and again. This is for the protection of the people it may affect. Honest politicians (yes, there are some) actually read the legislation they're supporting and make judgement calls. The scum are the ones who don't read it or don't care and bow down to pressure.

As far as Ruthy's comment about this PA breeding business being like organized crime, I'll tend to agree. It's horrible, sickening, heart-breaking, and other words I can't think of right now. This issue is extremely important to me, and I've been going back and forth in e-mail with Mr. Barrar about various aspects of the bill. He has been completely receptive and very responsive, as he has in the five years I've been communicating with him.

Please don't brand all the politicians. If there weren't any who cared and they really were all scum, the bill wouldn't have been introduced in the first place.

June 24, 2008 at 5:10 PM
posted by: ruthy92

There are also OUT OF STATE breeders lying and pretending to be in-state breeders showing up, emailing, and calling

How stupid can these legislators be?

This breeding industry is like organized crime. They do nothing but lie, cheat on their taxes, and commit animal abuse

And the Pennsylvania government appears to want to collude with them

June 20, 2008 at 9:00 PM
posted by: melina5_

I can't understand why these so called good breeders are worried. If they are following the laws then do they have something to worry about. Hasn't anyone learned by now that MONEY talks when it comes to politicans and if they cave to these creeps then I"M ashamed to say that I am from PA.

June 19, 2008 at 11:45 PM
posted by: kittychump

No surprise here - PA officials are CORRUPT when it comes to animals - and "the exception proves the rule!" Only MASSIVE public pressure will put a dent in the devilishness.