Humane Society Legislative Fund Goes All In on Landrieu’s Losing Campaign

This from www.Humanewatch.org

The Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) spends less than 1 percent of its budget on grants to help local organizations care for pets. So we already know what HSUS doesn’t spend its money on—but where exactly does it all go?

Lately, a lot has gone into losing campaigns.

The lobbying arm of HSUS, Humane Society Legislative Fund, poured $132,000 into Sen. Mary Landrieu’s (D-La.) Louisiana Senate runoff election, which she officially lost over the weekend. For context, that’s the highest spending from any liberal group supporting Landrieu—and more than twice the $53,000 donated by the Democratic State Central Committee.

This sizable expenditure is particularly startling in light of the forecasts (correctly) predicting Landrieu’s loss. Polls showed Landrieu’s running mate, Bill Cassidy (R.-La.), ahead by as many as 26 points preceding their runoff race. (He ended up winning by 12 points.) Read more

Animal Rights, Wildlife

NRA Warns of Confirmation Vote on Anti-Gun Surgeon General Nominee

President Obama has nominated anti-gun activist Vivek Murthy for the post of U.S. Surgeon General. Particularly given the president’s determination to reinvigorate taxpayer-funded gun control propaganda under the guise of public health research, confirmation of Dr. Murthy would pose a serious threat to the rights of gun owners. Dr. Murthy’s résumé of partisan activism on behalf of gun control, in which he specifically leveraged his status as a doctor, is detailed at length in a letter NRA-ILA Executive Director Chris Cox sent on Tuesday to Senators Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and Harry Reid (D-Nev.), reasserting NRA’s opposition to his nomination.

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Firearms, Gun Control

First Detection of Emerald Ash Borer in Six Southern Indiana Counties

GW:  Once it get started, it’s just a matter of time before the ash trees are dead.  Once they begin to die off, good land managers will plan for felling the dead and dying trees before they become an unsafe hazard.  It’s best no to wait too long, because standing dead ash can break off anywhere along the main trunk, which makes it especially dangerous.

Emerald ash borer (EAB), an invasive insect that kills ash trees has been detected for the first time in Jennings, Pike, Scott, Spencer, Sullivan and Warrick counties. Purple panel traps used to detect the pest captured EAB adults in Pike, Spencer, Sullivan and Warrick counties.

A visual survey of woodpecker-attacked ash trees found EAB in Jennings and Scott counties. Both counties were already quarantined for EAB. Of Indiana’s 92 counties, 79 have now detected EAB. Read more

Wildlife

Get in the Holiday Spirit with Trijicon’s ACOG Christmas Giveaway

Wixom, MI- Trijicon is going to give one of their Facebook fans a FREE 300 AAC Blackout ACOG, just in time for Christmas! To celebrate the 2014 holiday season, Trijicon’s Facebook sweepstakes will run throughout the month of December, and award an ACOG to ONE lucky Facebook fan. Registration for this giveaway can be completed through Trijicon’s Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/trijicon) and requires no purchase or entry fee for participation.

To join us in the Trijicon ACOG Christmas giveaway, simply visit the Trijicon Facebook page or click on the following link http://woobox.com/6czht7. In order to register for your chance at a free Trijicon ACOG, all you have to do is fill out the entry form to complete the submission. You will receive 2 bonus entries for each friend or family member who enters from your shared Facebook link.

Be sure to ‘LIKE’ us on Facebook for information and updates on our complete array of Brilliant Aiming Solutions™ for the hunting, shooting, military and law enforcement markets. Read more

Firearms

SCI: Thanks to NJDEP for Continuing Bear Hunt Despite Interference by Anti-Hunting Groups

Washington – Special to The Outdoor Wire – With New Jersey’s weeklong black bear hunting season now under way, Safari Club International (SCI) again thanks the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP) for continuing with the hunt, despite incessant cries from anti-hunting zealots for its cancellation. For several years, SCI has fought successfully in court to protect the annual bear hunt, defeating the anti-hunting groups repeatedly.

Black bears are the largest land mammal in New Jersey. As the NJDEP has found, they are an integral part of the state’s natural heritage and a vital component of healthy ecosystems. However, for NJDEP to properly manage New Jersey’s ecosystems, they need to manage the number of black bears at a sustainable population in the northwest region of the state.

Controlling black bear numbers improves public safety by reducing the number of bear encounters with humans. The citizens of New Jersey this year became keenly attuned to the need to intensify such management when a college student hiking in a nature preserve was fatally mauled by a black bear in September. Read more

Animal Rights, Hunting, Wildlife

Dove Lethality Study, More in Latest LSON

The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department recently released a multi-year study on lead versus nontoxic load and their lethality on dove.

The report came to some very interesting conclusions; mainly the type of shot used has no statistical difference when it comes to killing dove. To read more about what the study found, pick up a copy of Lone Star Outdoor News, available today online at LSONews.com and on newsstands. Read more

Ammunition, Hunting

The Good with the Bad: Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act

GW:  It’s a shame that our elected officials must stoop to borrowing from future generations as a get-along policy to get what they want.  This is the best we can do?  If any of them had a bit of intestinal fortitude to stand up and just defund the EPA, we wouldn’t have to go along with the rest of the nonsense.

 

The National Shooting Sports Foundation supports the Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act for FY15 and strongly encourages a Yes vote.

Though no bill is perfect, the NSSF supports this legislation because it protects the rights of hunters and sportsmen, not Washington bureaucrats, to choose the ammunition they want for hunting and target shooting, by preventing the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from banning traditional ammunition made with lead components (95% of all ammunition made and sold).

NSSF encourages you to contact your member of Congress at 202-224-3121 and ask them to vote YES on the Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act (H.R. 83).

More on the subject can be found here…

Ammunition

CCRKBA Calls for Full Disclosure of ASLGVP Membership, Funding

When an organization consists of elected public officials, there must be complete transparency.

BELLEVUE, WA – In response to this week’s launch of a new gun control organization consisting of state legislators from all 50 states, plus Puerto Rico, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms today called on the American State Legislators for Gun Violence Prevention to immediately publish a roster of their members, and disclose their funding sources.

“Private lobbying organizations might expect to have some degree of privacy,” said CCRKBA Chairman Alan M. Gottlieb, “but when an organization consists of elected public officials, there must be complete transparency. The public deserves to know who belongs to this organization, and who is providing financial support.”

He noted that the group’s mailing address is at a Post Office box in New York City’s Madison Square Station.

Reuters reported that the ASLGVP had not released information on its preliminary donors, acknowledging only that fundraising efforts are in progress. Another report said that the group had not yet published a list of members, said to number around 200 lawmakers, over concerns about “political backlash.” The group was launched by Democratic New York Assemblyman Brian Kavanagh.

“If these state lawmakers are worried about political backlash back home,” Gottlieb observed, “they must have good reason for that. Reports say Kavanagh founded this group because Congress has not adopted certain gun control measures. This has become the argument of the gun prohibition lobby. They failed to pressure Congress, so now the strategy is to attack gun rights at the state level, where presumably members of this new anti-gun lawmakers’ group will push their gun control agenda through the state legislatures. Read more

Firearms, Gun Control

Environmental Fugitive Arrested in Zambia

LIVINGSTONE-On December 2, authorities in Zambia arrested alleged ivory trafficker Ben Simasiku, a Zambian national and one of nine fugitives targeted by INTERPOL’s Operation Infra Terra, the first fugitive operation to specifically pursue individuals wanted for crimes against wildlife or the environment. Simasiku was wanted for unlawful possession of elephant tusks and for escaping arrest in Botswana. He was captured by the Zambia Wildlife Authority’s (ZAWA’s) Intelligence and Investigations Unit, which is supported by African Wildlife Foundation (AWF).

“The Zambian authorities are to be congratulated for acting quickly and capturing this criminal,” says Nathan Gichohi, African Wildlife Foundation’s senior program officer for species protection. “It’s important we focus on stopping the middlemen, traffickers and kingpins of the ivory and rhino horn trade as much as the poachers. This can effectively be achieved by supporting intelligence agencies at the various wildlife authorities in Africa.” Read more

Poachers
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