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Date: Sep 8, 2007 2:51 PM
Subject: ACT/ Gov. Schwarzenegger: VETO Kangaroo-Kill Bill!

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**EVERYONE — not just California residents — call/email/fax Governor Schwarzenegger. Ask him to veto SB880, a bill to REVERSE California’s ban on selling goods derived from kangaroo skins. Stop the trend in anti-animal legislation, state by state…

9/8/07: To Gov. Schwarzenegger: VETO Kangaroo-Kill Bill!
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In Defense of Animals, takeaction [at] idausa.org
Kangaroos Need Your Help Now
ga0.org/indefenseofanimals/notice-description.tcl?newsletter_id=9894857

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Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger
State Capitol Building
Sacramento, CA 95814
ph: 916-445-2841 * fax: 916-445-4633
email: governor [at] governor.ca.gov
web email form: gov.ca.gov/interact

Dear Governor Schwarzenegger,

Please VETO SB880, a bill to reverse the ban on selling goods derived from kangaroo skins. California law has prohibited sale of these products since 1970 to shield kangaroos in Australia, the last wild refuge for this species.

I am stunned the California Assembly recently approved legislation to revive the market in dead kangaroos. Like many voters, I care deeply about animal protection concerns. Please represent your constituents and the public beyond California by vetoing SB880 now.

Though beloved around the world, the kangaroo is easily butchered in Australia to make sport shoes. In the largest known slaughter of land wildlife, hunters spotlight kangaroos in the Australian outback at night. Shooters aim for the head but often miss the brain, leaving kangaroos with gaping head and mouth wounds. Animals flee outside the spotlight’s glare, to slowly die in the scrub.

Joeys are yanked from their slain mother’s pouch and clubbed on the head with water pipes or iron bars until dead. In-pouch joeys may be fatally trampled, belted with sticks, or slammed against vehicles and tree trunks. When their mothers are gunned down, older joeys (who live in and out of the pouch) die from exposure, starvation, predation, and maternal depravation.

Time and again these morbid scenes are documented in photographs, videos, and eyewitness accounts. Please vote against blood for profit. The footwear trade can easily utilize sophisticated faux materials. I urge you to VETO SB880 and uphold California’s ban on the sale of kangaroo-skin goods.

Thank you,

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ADDITIONAL ACTION FOR CALIFORNIA RESIDENTS:

Find out who your Assemblymember is: www.leginfo.ca.gov/yourleg.html

Then check below to see how he or she voted on SB880.

If your Assemblymember voted YES: Call or write to tell them that you are disappointed — and remember to be polite, even if you’re upset about the way they voted. The point is not to chastise these individuals, but to let them know that animal welfare issues are important to voters, and that they should consider whether their values are truly representing the people.

If your Assemblymember voted NO on SB880: Please thank them for trying to protect the kangaroos from greedy corporations.

SB880 VOTING RECORD:

YES to SB880
Aghazarian, Anderson, Arambula, Bass, Charles, Calderon, Carter, Cook, Davis, De La Torre, De Leon, DeVore, Duvall, Dymally, Emmerson, Evans, Fuentes, Fuller, Gaines, Galgiani, Garrick, Hernandez, Horton, Houston, Huff, Huffman, Jeffries, Keene, La Malfa, Maze, Mendoza, Nakanishi, Niello, Parra, Portantino, Price, Sharon, Runner, Silva, Soto, Torrico, Tran, Villines, Walters, Wolk, Nunez

NO to SB880
Adams, Beall, Benoit, Berg, Berryhill, Blakeslee, Brownley, Caballero, DeSaulnier, Feuer, Garcia, Hancock, Hayashi, Krekorian, Laird, Leno, Levine, Lieber, Lieu, Ma, Mullin, Nava, Ruskin, Salas, Smyth, Spitzer, Swanson

ABSENT, ABSTAINING, OR NOT VOTING:
Coto, Eng, Jones, Karnette, Plescia, Saldana, Solorio, Strickland

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