Appalled by Palin, Humane Society Legislative Fund endorses Obama
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Source/Letters: ANIMAL PEOPLE, September 2008
Merritt Clifton, Editor <anml...@whidbey.com>
Appalled by Palin, Humane Society Legislative
Fund endorses Obama
WASHINGTON D.C.-The Republican nomination of Alaska governor Sarah Palin to
run for U.S. vice president alongside presidential candidate John McCain
inspired the Humane Society Legislative Fund to break with precedent in
unanimously endorsing Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama and his
running mate, Joe Biden.
The Humane Society Legislative Fund board includes prominent Republicans as
well as Democrats.
"While we have endorsed hundreds of Congressional candidates for election,
both Democrats and Republicans, we have never before endorsed a
presidential candidate," wrote Humane Society Legislative Fund president
Mike Markarian in his September 22, 2008 blog.
"As an Illinois state senator,"Markarian explained, "Obama backed at least
a dozen animal protection laws, including to strengthen the penalties for
animal cruelty, to help animal shelters, to promote spaying and neutering,
and to ban the slaughter of horses for human consumption. In the U.S.
Senate, he has consistently co-sponsored bills to combat animal fighting
and horse slaughter, and has supported efforts to increase funding for
adequate enforcement of the Animal Welfare Act, Humane Methods of Slaughter
Act, and federal laws to combat animal fighting and puppy mills."
Responding to a Humane Society Legislative Fund questionnaire, Obama
"pledged support for nearly every animal protection bill currently pending
in Congress," Markarian said. "Obama also commented on the broader links
between animal cruelty and violence in society," Markarian mentioned.
Conceded online animal advocacy commentator Karen Dawn, who has frequently
praised Republicans, "Obama's record on animal issues is better than most.
I have spoken to him personally, and found a keen awareness of and interest
in the connection between the livestock industry and global warming. Yet
animal issues are hardly at the forefront of Obama's campaign--he is no
vegan Kucinich."
Humane Society of the U.S. president Wayne Pacelle has also frequently
praised Republicans, but Obama appeared to win Pacelle's support in July
2008 by pledging to adopt a shelter dog for his daughters.
The anti-puppy mill book A Rare Breed of Love, by Jana Kohl, published
earlier in 2008, includes a photo of Obama posing with Kohl's dog Baby in
front of the Lincoln Memorial. Obama convinced many pro-animal voters of
his sincerity when Entertainment Weekly asked him to name the first film he
could remember watching as a child.
"I don't remember the first movie," Obama replied, "but I can tell you that
one of the first was Born Free. I remember that movie having an impact on
me. I think I may have teared up at the end when they release [the lioness]
Elsa. I couldn't have been more than four or five, but I remember choking
up on that."
Continued Markarian, "Republican Senator John McCain voted for and
co-sponsored legislation to stop horse slaughter, and voted to eliminate a
$2 million subsidy for the luxury fur coat industry. But he has largely
been absent on other issues. The McCain campaign did not fill out the
Humane Society Legilsative Fund presidential questionnaire, and has not
issued any public statements on animal welfare issues.
Yet he did speak at the National Rifle Association convention earlier this
year, and was the keynote speaker" at a late September conference held by
the U.S. Sportsmen's Alliance.
Endorsing McCain through a "Sportsmen for McCain National Steering
Committee" were National Rifle Association past president Sandra Froman,
American Council of Snowmobile Associations executive director Christine
Jourdain, former National Wild Turkey Federation chief executive Rob Keck,
Boone & Crockett Club past president Robert Model, and Sportsmen for Fish &
Wildlife founder Don Peay.
McCain has also long enjoyed the backing of prominent members of Safari Club
International, whose national headquarters in Tucson is within his home
state.
But the League of Conservation Voters, Defenders of Wildlife, and the
Sierra Club have all long backed Obama. While all three organizations'
statements have emphasized McCain's positions on energy issues in opposing
him, mainstream conservationists have been annoyed since February 2003 by
McCain's repeated derisive attacks on a five-year, $4.8 million grizzly
bear census based on DNA analysis of hair and scats.
McCain continued to scoff at the study in his September 26 debate with
Obama.
"There are approximately 765 grizzly bears in northwestern Montana,"
summarized Associated Press writer Dina Cappiello four days earlier, after
the U.S. Geological Survey announced the study results. "That's the largest
population of grizzly bears documented in Montana in more than 30 years,"
three times as many as were believed to be in the region when the study was
first proposed, half again as many as the most recent previous estimates by
conventional counting methods.
"Supporters of the research included Montana ranchers, farmers and
Republican leaders," said Cappiello. "They pushed for the study as a step
toward taking grizzlies off the endangered species list. Since 1975,
grizzlies have been [designated as] threatened in the lower 48 states, a
status that bars hunting [grizzlies] and restricts development."
"While McCain's positions on animal protection have been lukewarm," wrote
Markarian, "his choice of running mate cemented our decision to oppose his
ticket. Governor Sarah Palin's record is so extreme that she has perhaps
done more harm to animals," in only two years in office, "than any other
current governor in the United States.
"Obama's running mate, Delaware Senator Joe Biden, has been a stalwart
friend of animal welfare advocates in the Senate," Markarian wrote, "and
has received high marks year after year on our Humane Scorecard. In the
108th Congress he was the co-author with California Senator Barbara Boxer of
legislation to ban the netting of dolphins by commercial tuna fishermen.
He was the lead author of a bill in the 107th Congress to prohibit trophy
hunting of captive exotic mammals in fenced enclosures, and he successfully
passed the bill through the Senate Judiciary Committee."
Palin's parents, Chuck and Sally Heath of Anchorage, Alaska, "have been
part-time U.S. Department of Agriculture wildlife specialists for the past
15 years, traveling throughout Alaska trapping or killing animals,"
recounted Associated Press writer Matt Volz. Among their assignments, Volz
noted, have been killing Arctic foxes for preying on nesting Canada geese
in the Pribilof islands, poisoning rats on Palmyra Atoll, and killing mice
and rats in debris from the World Trade Center during the search for human
remains in the Fresh Kills landfill in January 2002.
Palin rose to political prominence in Alaska as mayor of Wasilla, a town of
7,000 known chiefly as the starting point for the annual 1,100-mile Iditarod
dog sled race. Palin promoted the race, which is opposed by many animal
advocates.
As governor, "Environmentalists have nicknamed Palin the 'killa from
Wasilla," reported Associated Press writer Dina Cappiello.
Upon being nominated to run for vice president, Palin declared that her
favorite food is "moose burgers." Among the first photographs distributed
by Palin boosters after her nomination were several showing her and one of
her daughters with a moose whom Palin shot, one showing her speaking in the
governor's office from a sofa with a grizzly bear pelt (head attached)
draped over the back, and one of her speaking while wearing fur. A photo
of her parents' home showed little space that was not stuffed with hunting
and trapping trophies.
"Her philosophy from our perspective is cut, kill, dig and drill," Alaska
Wildlife Alliance president John Toppenberg said. "She is in the Stone Age
of wildlife management and is very opposed to utilizing accepted science."
Continued Cappiello, "At the National Governors Association conference
where she first met John McCain, Palin had other business: making her case
to Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne against classifying the polar bear as
a threatened species."
On August 4, 2008 Palin in her capacity as governor of Alaska "sued the
government for listing the polar bear," recounted Mark Hertsgaard in The
Nation. The listing, Palin asserted, would harm Alaskan oil and gas
development.
"The George W. Bush administration had not wanted to designate the polar
bear as threatened in the first place," Hertsgaard explained. Polar bears
were protected only under pressure of court orders, based on a finding by
the U.S. Geological Survey that two-thirds of all polar bears could be lost
by 2050 if Arctic ice continues to melt at the present rate.
"The listing was the first time global warming had been cited as the sole
premise in an Endangered Species Act case," Hertsgaard continued.
"Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne clearly wanted it to be the last. When
Kempthorne announced the polar bear listing, he emphasized that it would
not affect federal policy on global warming or block development in the
Arctic. On August 11," with Palin's lawsuit as pretext, Kempthorne
"proposed new rules that could allow federal agencies to decide for
themselves whether their actions will imperil a threatened or endangered
species. To make sure no one missed the point, Kempthorne told reporters
that the new rule would keep the Endangered Species Act from becoming 'a
back door' to making climate change policy."
Wrote Alaska Conservation Solutions president Deborah Williams, "Palin's
actions and comments regarding polar bears and the impact of global warming
on the Arctic ice cap reveal serious problems with her views on science and
proper governmental process. Governor Palin asserted that the state did a
'comprehensive review' of the science and found no reason to support a
listing. This statement flatly contradicted the conclusions reached and
communicated by the state's leading marine mammal biologists."
Palin also opposes protecting the estimated 375 beluga whales remaining in
the Cook Inlet, off Anchorage--less than 20% of the population believed to
have inhabited the Cook Inlet in 1959, when Alaska was admitted to
statehood.
"Federal scientists have said the Cook Inlet whales have a 26 percent chance
of going extinct in the next 100 years," pointed out Associated Press
writer Mary Pemberton.
A decision on listing the Cook Inlet belugas as threatened is due by October
20, two weeks before election day.
Among Palin's many hostile positions toward wildlife, her antipathy toward
wolves is best known, amplified in part by a McCain/Palin TV commercial
which depicted their political opponents as a wolf pack.
"I have lived in Alaska for nearly 25 years, long enough to see the
on-again off-again cycles of predator control," wrote Friends of Animals
member Marybeth Holleman in a statement distributed by FoA. "Never has the
killing of wolves and bears in order to inflate the numbers of moose and
caribou been so widespread and mean-spirited as under Palin's reign. Under
Palin, private citizens kill wolves from planes under the guise of predator
control. They run the wolves to exhaustion, and then shoot them.
Under Palin, for the first time in 20 years, wolves are also gunned down
from state-chartered helicopters. Palin authorized $400,000 in state funds
for advertising to persuade Alaskans to vote against a ballot initiative
that would have curtailed aerial hunting. Her propaganda was successful;
the ballot measure failed," just one day before her nomination to run for
vice president.
"Under Palin, for the first time since Alaska statehood, it's legal to do
land-and-shoot killing of bears and their cubs," Holleman added. "Under
Palin, predator control has spread from one to five regions of Alaska, to
over 60,000 square miles, more than at any time since statehood. Nearly
800 wolves have been shot from planes, and some 2,000 are killed every year
by other methods. And that's just the reported deaths. Palin even went so
far last year as to put a bounty on wolves-- she wanted to pay $150 for a
foreleg of each dead wolf. Thanks to Friends of Animals, the Alaska
Wildlife Alliance, and Defenders of Wildlife, her wolf bounty was ruled
illegal by the courts."
Palin's speech accepting the Republican vice presidential nomination was
ghosted by former White House speechwriter Matthew Scully, author of
Dominion: The Power of Man, The Suffering of Animals, and The Call to
Mercy (2002).
Noted Massimo Calabresi of Time magazine, "Scully is best known for his
vigorous defense of animal rights. A vegetarian who is regularly critical
of the NRA and much of the hunting community, he is a passionate advocate
for doing away with the more brutal versions of blood-sport, including
aerial hunting, which Palin supports."
Karen Dawn hoped that the Scully/Palin partership might positively influence
Palin. The partnership may be more likely to strain Scully's welcome at
animal advocacy conferences.
Said Norm Phelps, author of The Longest Struggle (2007), "I think the fact
that Matthew Scully wrote her convention speech, which was a masterpiece of
viciousness, should give us all pause about the notion that conservatives
will ever be serious animal advocates."
Added University of Texas at El Paso philosophy professor Steven Best,
"Like the politicians he serves, Scully talks out of both sides of his
mouthŠNo principled or consistent person writes a book against hunting, and
then writes a speech for a vicious defender of hunting and avid killer."
"If Palin is put in a position to succeed McCain," concluded Markarian,
"this could mean rolling back decades of progress on animal issues."
--Merritt Clifton
Editor, ANIMAL PEOPLE
P.O. Box 960
Clinton, WA 98236
Telephone: 360-579-2505
Fax: 360-579-2575
E-mail: anml...@whidbey.com
Web: www.animalpeoplenews.org
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investigative coverage of animal protection worldwide, founded in 1992.
Our readership of 30,000-plus includes the decision-makers at more than
10,000 animal protection organizations. We have no alignment or affiliation
with any other entity. $24/year; for free sample, send address.]
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Appalled by Palin, Humane Society Legislative
Fund endorses Obama
WASHINGTON D.C.-The Republican nomination of Alaska governor Sarah Palin to
run for U.S. vice president alongside presidential candidate John McCain
inspired the Humane Society Legislative Fund to break with precedent in
unanimously endorsing Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama and his
running mate, Joe Biden.
The Humane Society Legislative Fund board includes prominent Republicans as
well as Democrats.
"While we have endorsed hundreds of Congressional candidates for election,
both Democrats and Republicans, we have never before endorsed a
presidential candidate," wrote Humane Society Legislative Fund president
Mike Markarian in his September 22, 2008 blog.
"As an Illinois state senator,"Markarian explained, "Obama backed at least
a dozen animal protection laws, including to strengthen the penalties for
animal cruelty, to help animal shelters, to promote spaying and neutering,
and to ban the slaughter of horses for human consumption. In the U.S.
Senate, he has consistently co-sponsored bills to combat animal fighting
and horse slaughter, and has supported efforts to increase funding for
adequate enforcement of the Animal Welfare Act, Humane Methods of Slaughter
Act, and federal laws to combat animal fighting and puppy mills."
Responding to a Humane Society Legislative Fund questionnaire, Obama
"pledged support for nearly every animal protection bill currently pending
in Congress," Markarian said. "Obama also commented on the broader links
between animal cruelty and violence in society," Markarian mentioned.
Conceded online animal advocacy commentator Karen Dawn, who has frequently
praised Republicans, "Obama's record on animal issues is better than most.
I have spoken to him personally, and found a keen awareness of and interest
in the connection between the livestock industry and global warming. Yet
animal issues are hardly at the forefront of Obama's campaign--he is no
vegan Kucinich."
Humane Society of the U.S. president Wayne Pacelle has also frequently
praised Republicans, but Obama appeared to win Pacelle's support in July
2008 by pledging to adopt a shelter dog for his daughters.
The anti-puppy mill book A Rare Breed of Love, by Jana Kohl, published
earlier in 2008, includes a photo of Obama posing with Kohl's dog Baby in
front of the Lincoln Memorial. Obama convinced many pro-animal voters of
his sincerity when Entertainment Weekly asked him to name the first film he
could remember watching as a child.
"I don't remember the first movie," Obama replied, "but I can tell you that
one of the first was Born Free. I remember that movie having an impact on
me. I think I may have teared up at the end when they release [the lioness]
Elsa. I couldn't have been more than four or five, but I remember choking
up on that."
Continued Markarian, "Republican Senator John McCain voted for and
co-sponsored legislation to stop horse slaughter, and voted to eliminate a
$2 million subsidy for the luxury fur coat industry. But he has largely
been absent on other issues. The McCain campaign did not fill out the
Humane Society Legilsative Fund presidential questionnaire, and has not
issued any public statements on animal welfare issues.
Yet he did speak at the National Rifle Association convention earlier this
year, and was the keynote speaker" at a late September conference held by
the U.S. Sportsmen's Alliance.
Endorsing McCain through a "Sportsmen for McCain National Steering
Committee" were National Rifle Association past president Sandra Froman,
American Council of Snowmobile Associations executive director Christine
Jourdain, former National Wild Turkey Federation chief executive Rob Keck,
Boone & Crockett Club past president Robert Model, and Sportsmen for Fish &
Wildlife founder Don Peay.
McCain has also long enjoyed the backing of prominent members of Safari Club
International, whose national headquarters in Tucson is within his home
state.
But the League of Conservation Voters, Defenders of Wildlife, and the
Sierra Club have all long backed Obama. While all three organizations'
statements have emphasized McCain's positions on energy issues in opposing
him, mainstream conservationists have been annoyed since February 2003 by
McCain's repeated derisive attacks on a five-year, $4.8 million grizzly
bear census based on DNA analysis of hair and scats.
McCain continued to scoff at the study in his September 26 debate with
Obama.
"There are approximately 765 grizzly bears in northwestern Montana,"
summarized Associated Press writer Dina Cappiello four days earlier, after
the U.S. Geological Survey announced the study results. "That's the largest
population of grizzly bears documented in Montana in more than 30 years,"
three times as many as were believed to be in the region when the study was
first proposed, half again as many as the most recent previous estimates by
conventional counting methods.
"Supporters of the research included Montana ranchers, farmers and
Republican leaders," said Cappiello. "They pushed for the study as a step
toward taking grizzlies off the endangered species list. Since 1975,
grizzlies have been [designated as] threatened in the lower 48 states, a
status that bars hunting [grizzlies] and restricts development."
"While McCain's positions on animal protection have been lukewarm," wrote
Markarian, "his choice of running mate cemented our decision to oppose his
ticket. Governor Sarah Palin's record is so extreme that she has perhaps
done more harm to animals," in only two years in office, "than any other
current governor in the United States.
"Obama's running mate, Delaware Senator Joe Biden, has been a stalwart
friend of animal welfare advocates in the Senate," Markarian wrote, "and
has received high marks year after year on our Humane Scorecard. In the
108th Congress he was the co-author with California Senator Barbara Boxer of
legislation to ban the netting of dolphins by commercial tuna fishermen.
He was the lead author of a bill in the 107th Congress to prohibit trophy
hunting of captive exotic mammals in fenced enclosures, and he successfully
passed the bill through the Senate Judiciary Committee."
Palin's parents, Chuck and Sally Heath of Anchorage, Alaska, "have been
part-time U.S. Department of Agriculture wildlife specialists for the past
15 years, traveling throughout Alaska trapping or killing animals,"
recounted Associated Press writer Matt Volz. Among their assignments, Volz
noted, have been killing Arctic foxes for preying on nesting Canada geese
in the Pribilof islands, poisoning rats on Palmyra Atoll, and killing mice
and rats in debris from the World Trade Center during the search for human
remains in the Fresh Kills landfill in January 2002.
Palin rose to political prominence in Alaska as mayor of Wasilla, a town of
7,000 known chiefly as the starting point for the annual 1,100-mile Iditarod
dog sled race. Palin promoted the race, which is opposed by many animal
advocates.
As governor, "Environmentalists have nicknamed Palin the 'killa from
Wasilla," reported Associated Press writer Dina Cappiello.
Upon being nominated to run for vice president, Palin declared that her
favorite food is "moose burgers." Among the first photographs distributed
by Palin boosters after her nomination were several showing her and one of
her daughters with a moose whom Palin shot, one showing her speaking in the
governor's office from a sofa with a grizzly bear pelt (head attached)
draped over the back, and one of her speaking while wearing fur. A photo
of her parents' home showed little space that was not stuffed with hunting
and trapping trophies.
"Her philosophy from our perspective is cut, kill, dig and drill," Alaska
Wildlife Alliance president John Toppenberg said. "She is in the Stone Age
of wildlife management and is very opposed to utilizing accepted science."
Continued Cappiello, "At the National Governors Association conference
where she first met John McCain, Palin had other business: making her case
to Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne against classifying the polar bear as
a threatened species."
On August 4, 2008 Palin in her capacity as governor of Alaska "sued the
government for listing the polar bear," recounted Mark Hertsgaard in The
Nation. The listing, Palin asserted, would harm Alaskan oil and gas
development.
"The George W. Bush administration had not wanted to designate the polar
bear as threatened in the first place," Hertsgaard explained. Polar bears
were protected only under pressure of court orders, based on a finding by
the U.S. Geological Survey that two-thirds of all polar bears could be lost
by 2050 if Arctic ice continues to melt at the present rate.
"The listing was the first time global warming had been cited as the sole
premise in an Endangered Species Act case," Hertsgaard continued.
"Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne clearly wanted it to be the last. When
Kempthorne announced the polar bear listing, he emphasized that it would
not affect federal policy on global warming or block development in the
Arctic. On August 11," with Palin's lawsuit as pretext, Kempthorne
"proposed new rules that could allow federal agencies to decide for
themselves whether their actions will imperil a threatened or endangered
species. To make sure no one missed the point, Kempthorne told reporters
that the new rule would keep the Endangered Species Act from becoming 'a
back door' to making climate change policy."
Wrote Alaska Conservation Solutions president Deborah Williams, "Palin's
actions and comments regarding polar bears and the impact of global warming
on the Arctic ice cap reveal serious problems with her views on science and
proper governmental process. Governor Palin asserted that the state did a
'comprehensive review' of the science and found no reason to support a
listing. This statement flatly contradicted the conclusions reached and
communicated by the state's leading marine mammal biologists."
Palin also opposes protecting the estimated 375 beluga whales remaining in
the Cook Inlet, off Anchorage--less than 20% of the population believed to
have inhabited the Cook Inlet in 1959, when Alaska was admitted to
statehood.
"Federal scientists have said the Cook Inlet whales have a 26 percent chance
of going extinct in the next 100 years," pointed out Associated Press
writer Mary Pemberton.
A decision on listing the Cook Inlet belugas as threatened is due by October
20, two weeks before election day.
Among Palin's many hostile positions toward wildlife, her antipathy toward
wolves is best known, amplified in part by a McCain/Palin TV commercial
which depicted their political opponents as a wolf pack.
"I have lived in Alaska for nearly 25 years, long enough to see the
on-again off-again cycles of predator control," wrote Friends of Animals
member Marybeth Holleman in a statement distributed by FoA. "Never has the
killing of wolves and bears in order to inflate the numbers of moose and
caribou been so widespread and mean-spirited as under Palin's reign. Under
Palin, private citizens kill wolves from planes under the guise of predator
control. They run the wolves to exhaustion, and then shoot them.
Under Palin, for the first time in 20 years, wolves are also gunned down
from state-chartered helicopters. Palin authorized $400,000 in state funds
for advertising to persuade Alaskans to vote against a ballot initiative
that would have curtailed aerial hunting. Her propaganda was successful;
the ballot measure failed," just one day before her nomination to run for
vice president.
"Under Palin, for the first time since Alaska statehood, it's legal to do
land-and-shoot killing of bears and their cubs," Holleman added. "Under
Palin, predator control has spread from one to five regions of Alaska, to
over 60,000 square miles, more than at any time since statehood. Nearly
800 wolves have been shot from planes, and some 2,000 are killed every year
by other methods. And that's just the reported deaths. Palin even went so
far last year as to put a bounty on wolves-- she wanted to pay $150 for a
foreleg of each dead wolf. Thanks to Friends of Animals, the Alaska
Wildlife Alliance, and Defenders of Wildlife, her wolf bounty was ruled
illegal by the courts."
Palin's speech accepting the Republican vice presidential nomination was
ghosted by former White House speechwriter Matthew Scully, author of
Dominion: The Power of Man, The Suffering of Animals, and The Call to
Mercy (2002).
Noted Massimo Calabresi of Time magazine, "Scully is best known for his
vigorous defense of animal rights. A vegetarian who is regularly critical
of the NRA and much of the hunting community, he is a passionate advocate
for doing away with the more brutal versions of blood-sport, including
aerial hunting, which Palin supports."
Karen Dawn hoped that the Scully/Palin partership might positively influence
Palin. The partnership may be more likely to strain Scully's welcome at
animal advocacy conferences.
Said Norm Phelps, author of The Longest Struggle (2007), "I think the fact
that Matthew Scully wrote her convention speech, which was a masterpiece of
viciousness, should give us all pause about the notion that conservatives
will ever be serious animal advocates."
Added University of Texas at El Paso philosophy professor Steven Best,
"Like the politicians he serves, Scully talks out of both sides of his
mouthŠNo principled or consistent person writes a book against hunting, and
then writes a speech for a vicious defender of hunting and avid killer."
"If Palin is put in a position to succeed McCain," concluded Markarian,
"this could mean rolling back decades of progress on animal issues."
--Merritt Clifton
Editor, ANIMAL PEOPLE
P.O. Box 960
Clinton, WA 98236
Telephone: 360-579-2505
Fax: 360-579-2575
E-mail: anml...@whidbey.com
Web: www.animalpeoplenews.org
[ANIMAL PEOPLE is the leading independent newspaper providing original
investigative coverage of animal protection worldwide, founded in 1992.
Our readership of 30,000-plus includes the decision-makers at more than
10,000 animal protection organizations. We have no alignment or affiliation
with any other entity. $24/year; for free sample, send address.]
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~>
Judy Reed
Liberal, Progressive, Secular, Green, & HumaneThis is distributed for nonprofit research and educational purposes only.
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