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Please Vote Out These Animal Abusing Senators and Reps in November Or Early Voting

by A Humane Congress
Fifty two GOP senators have records of voting for trophy hunters or in the case of Johnny Isakson for voting to criminalize animal rights videotaping of slaughterhouses 220 House Republicans voted to bring trophy hunters' aerial hunting into our national parks. Please vote them all out.
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Every single Republican senator except the ailing Johnny Isakson (who has a terrible record regarding animals) voted to allow hunters for the 1st time into our national park wildlife refuge in Alaska. 220 Republican congresspersons listed below voted for the bill which Donald Trump quickly signed. The bill pushed by Congress' worst animal abuser Don Young of Alaska allows aerial hunting of animals, baiting of bear traps, the use of hidden snares and the murder of bear cubs and wolf puppies in their dens by stalking trophy hunters and other hunters terrorizing animals.


Despite the human chauvinism of OnTheIssues org which does not list animal rights as a category on which to rate candidates, one can go to the Humane Society Legislative Fund Scorecard for senators and representatives.

Every single Republican senator except the ailing Johnny Isakson (who has a terrible record regarding animals) voted to allow hunters for the 1st time into our national park wildlife refuge in Alaska. 220 Republican congresspersons listed below voted for the bill which Donald Trump quickly signed. The bill pushed by Congress' worst animal abuser Don Young of Alaska allows aerial hunting of animals, baiting of bear traps, the use of hidden snares and the murder of bear cubs and wolf puppies in their dens by stalking trophy hunters and other hunters terrorizing animals.


Despite the human chauvinism of OnTheIssues org which does not list animal rights as a category on which to rate candidates, one can go to the Humane Society Legislative Fund Scorecard for senators and representatives.

http://www.hslf.org/our-work/humane-scorecard.html#.W6eszRBRd2E


Alaska

Don Young, Republican representative, has often been called the most animal abusing member of the US House.


Arizona

Martha McSally R running for Senate supports the bombing of people and animals in immoral and unconstitutional undeclared wars as well as the

environment and animal harming Keystone pipeline,

opposes gay marriage, supports semi automatic weapons.



California

Dianne Feinstein & her husband Richard Blum, chairman of Board of Overseers of Univ of Calif have aggressively promoted animal torture research. Please vote De Leon

https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2012/10/07/18723242.php


Florida
Rick Scott, like trophy hunter Ryan Zinke, tried to bring stalking hunters, cattle ranchers' cows, and tree axing for profit into the people's parks, Floridians, please vote to keep Nelson in the Senate. Scott, of the 7 gubernatorial killers (43 do not murder prisoners) has executed more than any other governor but Texecutioner Greg Abbott. Floridians please keep Nelson in the Senate. Nelson voted against the Republican plan to bring aerial hunting, bear trap baiting, and murder of bear cubs and wolf puppies into our national park in Alaska which was designed as a wildlife sanctuary.



Georgia
Senator Isakson as well as Sen Inhofe are the remaining 2 of the 4 senators who sponsored the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act AETA which criminalizes videotaping slaughterhouse, factory farm, vivisection lab abuse of animals
https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2011/12/trust-us-legislation-when-protest-becomes-an-act-of-terror/250580/


Indiana

Indiana Republican Mike Braun has a high rating from the hunter dominated NRA, wants to further bloat the war profiteer network with increased military spending, and has been accused of overworking and underpaying his employees. He is a millionaire many times over.


Iowa

Iowa Republican congressman Steve King has defended dogfighting. That is just one of a long list of his crimes against animals.


Mississippi

The state will have 2 Senate elections in the fall.

GOP senator Roger Wicker of MS has in 2014 and 2017 voted to expand the power of the 5% of the population who hunt. Like 50 other Republican senators he voted to allow aerial hunting in our Alaska national park.
https://www .congress.gov/bill/113th-congress/senate-bill/2363

Cindy Hyde-Smith was never elected, but appointed to the Senate. She is a cattle rancher, a profiteer who sends cows to be murdered.



Missouri

Josh Hawley, senate candidate, sued to keep Missouri chickens in smaller cages, opposing California's legislation mandating less cruel cage sizes. He also sued for the right to use toxic execution chemicals banned in other states. Vote McCaskill


Montana
Matt Rosendale Republican is running against populist senator Tester also a rancher.. Rosendale is a cattle rancher who opposes all categories of abortion including rape and incest, who wants full repeal of Obamacare, opposes gay marriage. Tester refused to vote for aerial hunting and the murder of bears, wolves, and pigs in Alaska by trophy hunters. May both men follow the example of 4th generation Montana cattle rancher Howard Lyman who had spinal stem cancer and promised God he would become a vegan and promote vegan diet if her lived. Lyman and Oprah Winfrey were sued by Amarillo cattlemen twice for publicizing the widespread incidence of Mad Cow. The Amarillo men lost as the 5th Circuit ruled that the truth is not libelous.



Nebraska

Animal abusing cattle rancher Republican Sen. Deb Fischer profiteers from mammal slaughter which causes the cows agony, generates many human diseases, wastes energy and causes global climate extremes. She voted to allow hunters to murder bear cubs in an Alaskan national park. Fischer voted for executioner and tiny dove hunter Gorsuch. She favors prisoner murder. Her state is one of 7 which murdered prisoners this year. 43 did not. Please vote for Jane Raybould



Nevada

Dean Heller representing Nevada in the Senate voted to allow trophy hunters into our national park wildlife refuge in Alaska. He also voted for dovehunter and executioner Neil Gorsuch


North Dakota
Kevin Cramer of North Dakota another of the 220 GOP congresspersons voting to bring aerial hunting, bear baiting & snares, & the murder of bear cubs and wolf puppies by trophy hunters into our national park. Vote Heitkamp


Ohio
Congressman Jim Renacci of Wadsworth Ohio is running against incumbent Democrat Sherrod Brown. Renacci voted as did 200 other Republican congresspersons to bring aerial hunting into our national park in Alaska, to allow baiting of bear traps and the murder of bear cubs and wolf puppies by trophy hunters and others. Several countries have outlawed aerial hunting. Don Young, considered the most animal abusing member of the House of Rep., introduced the legislation, which for the first time allows stalking hunters to terrorize animals in what was designed as a wildlife sanctuary. Renacci's opponent, incumbent Sherrod Brown like EVERY
other Democrat senator or independent, voted against the brutal bill.



Renacci made millions in owning over 20 substandard nursing homes as he bilked the patients and Medicare. He has been sued for patient neglect and death.


Tennessee

Marsha Blackburn, Tennessee (R) running for the Senate, voted in the House for aerial hunting in our national park in Alaska, for beartrap baiting and bear snares, for the trophy hunter murder of bear cubs and wolf puppies. She has a zero rating by the HSUS, a flunking rating



Texas

Ted Cruz voted to allow hunters for the first time to murder animals in a US national park He voted for executioner and tiny dove hunter Neil Gorsuch. Cruz as TX solicitor general was like George Bush, Rick Perry, Greg Abbott and John Cornyn a Texecutioner. He argued for the execution of juveniles and the mentally ill.


Utah

Mitt Romney gave 1.9 million dollars in Burger King stock to the Mormon church which is the church most invested in animal slaughter and meat, as well as the church running the biggest calf slaughter operation in the US (Deseret in Florida). Romney as owner of IHart Radio through the sole owership of Bain Capital has profiteered from and promoted animal slaughter products. He advocated sending 50,000 more troops to Iraq (none of his own sons) both in his campaign and through the talk show hosts on his radio network. The illegal and immoral wars of our country since World War 2 have bombed, burned, smashed, abandoned people, animals, birds, frogs, butterflies, trees etc.


West Virginia

Republican Pat Morrissey running against incumbent Manchin for the Senate received $250,000 as a lobbyist for a pro animal research pharmaceutical trade organization.The group was funded by some of the same opioid distributors that West Virginia sued for flooding the state with opioids.



Wyoming

John Barrasso voted to allow hunters to invade hibernation dens to murder bear cubs in an Alaskan national park.


The following are the 225 congresspersons in the House, 220 of them Republican, who voted to turn our national wildlife sanctuary in Alaska into a shooting gallery. The 5 Democrats in italics are Peterson, Gonzalez of Texas, Cuellar, Vela and Kind.



http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2017/roll098.xml




Abraham
Aderholt
Allen
Amash
Arrington
Babin
Bacon
Banks (IN)
Barletta
Barr
Bergman
Biggs
Bilirakis
Bishop (MI)
Bishop (UT)
Black
Blackburn
Blum
Bost
Brady (TX)
Brat
Bridenstine
Brooks (AL)
Brooks (IN)
Buchanan
Buck
Bucshon
Budd
Burgess
Byrne
Calvert
Carter (GA)
Carter (TX)
Chabot
Chaffetz
Cheney
Coffman
Cole
Collins (GA)
Collins (NY)
Comer
Comstock
Conaway
Cook
Costello (PA)
Cramer
Crawford
Cuellar
Culberson
Davidson
Davis, Rodney
Denham
Dent
DeSantis
DesJarlais
Diaz-Balart
Duffy
Duncan (SC)
Duncan (TN)
Dunn
Emmer
Farenthold
Faso
Ferguson
Fleischmann
Flores
Fortenberry
Foxx
Franks (AZ)
Frelinghuysen
Gaetz
Gallagher
Garrett
Gibbs
Gohmert Gonzalez (TX)
Goodlatte
Gosar
Gowdy
Granger
Graves (GA)
Graves (LA)
Graves (MO)
Griffith
Grothman
Guthrie
Harper
Harris
Hartzler
Hensarling
Herrera Beutler
Hice, Jody B.
Higgins (LA)
Hill
Holding
Hollingsworth
Hudson
Huizenga
Hultgren
Hunter
Hurd
Issa
Jenkins (KS)
Jenkins (WV)
Johnson (LA)
Johnson (OH)
Johnson, Sam
Jones
Jordan
Joyce (OH)
Katko
Kelly (MS)
Kelly (PA)
Kind
King (IA)
Kinzinger
Knight
Kustoff (TN)
Labrador
LaHood
LaMalfa
Lamborn
Lance
Latta
Lewis (MN)
Long
Loudermilk
Love
Lucas
Luetkemeyer
Marchant
Marino
Marshall
Massie
Mast
McCarthy
McCaul
McClintock
McHenry
McKinley
McMorris Rodgers
Meadows
Meehan
Messer
Mitchell
Moolenaar
Mooney (WV)
Mullin
Murphy (PA)
Newhouse Noem
Nunes
Palazzo
Palmer
Paulsen
Pearce
Perry
Peterson
Pittenger
Poe (TX)
Poliquin
Posey
Ratcliffe
Reed
Renacci
Rice (SC)
Roby
Roe (TN)
Rogers (AL)
Rogers (KY)
Rohrabacher
Rokita
Rooney, Francis
Rooney, Thomas J.
Roskam
Ross
Rothfus
Rouzer
Royce (CA)
Russell
Rutherford
Sanford
Scalise
Schweikert
Scott, Austin
Sensenbrenner
Sessions
Shimkus
Shuster
Simpson
Smith (MO)
Smith (NE)
Smith (TX)
Smucker
Stefanik
Stivers
Taylor
Tenney
Thompson (PA)
Thornberry
Tiberi
Tipton
Turner
Valadao
Vela
Wagner
Walberg
Walden
Walker
Walorski
Walters, Mimi
Weber (TX)
Webster (FL)
Wenstrup
Westerman
Williams
Wilson (SC)
Wittman
Womack
Woodall
Yoder
Yoho
Young (AK)
Young (IA)
Zeldin


Alaska

Don Young, Republican representative, has often been called the most animal abusing member of the US House.


Arizona

Martha McSally R running for Senate supports the bombing of people and animals in immoral and unconstitutional undeclared wars as well as the

environment and animal harming Keystone pipeline,

opposes gay marriage, supports semi automatic weapons.



California

Dianne Feinstein & her husband Richard Blum, chairman of Board of Overseers of Univ of Calif have aggressively promoted animal torture research. Please vote De Leon

https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2012/10/07/18723242.php


Florida
Rick Scott, like trophy hunter Ryan Zinke, tried to bring stalking hunters, cattle ranchers' cows, and tree axing for profit into the people's parks, Floridians, please vote to keep Nelson in the Senate. Scott, of the 7 gubernatorial killers (43 do not murder prisoners) has executed more than any other governor but Texecutioner Greg Abbott. Floridians please keep Nelson in the Senate. Nelson voted against the Republican plan to bring aerial hunting, bear trap baiting, and murder of bear cubs and wolf puppies into our national park in Alaska which was designed as a wildlife sanctuary.



Georgia
Senator Isakson as well as Sen Inhofe are the remaining 2 of the 4 senators who sponsored the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act AETA which criminalizes videotaping slaughterhouse, factory farm, vivisection lab abuse of animals
https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2011/12/trust-us-legislation-when-protest-becomes-an-act-of-terror/250580/


Indiana

Indiana Republican Mike Braun has a high rating from the hunter dominated NRA, wants to further bloat the war profiteer network with increased military spending, and has been accused of overworking and underpaying his employees. He is a millionaire many times over.


Iowa

Iowa Republican congressman Steve King has defended dogfighting. That is just one of a long list of his crimes against animals.


Mississippi

The state will have 2 Senate elections in the fall.

GOP senator Roger Wicker of MS has in 2014 and 2017 voted to expand the power of the 5% of the population who hunt. Like 50 other Republican senators he voted to allow aerial hunting in our Alaska national park.
https://www .congress.gov/bill/113th-congress/senate-bill/2363

Cindy Hyde-Smith was never elected, but appointed to the Senate. She is a cattle rancher, a profiteer who sends cows to be murdered.



Missouri

Josh Hawley, senate candidate, sued to keep Missouri chickens in smaller cages, opposing California's legislation mandating less cruel cage sizes. He also sued for the right to use toxic execution chemicals banned in other states. Vote McCaskill


Montana
Matt Rosendale Republican is running against populist senator Tester also a rancher.. Rosendale is a cattle rancher who opposes all categories of abortion including rape and incest, who wants full repeal of Obamacare, opposes gay marriage. Tester refused to vote for aerial hunting and the murder of bears, wolves, and pigs in Alaska by trophy hunters. May both men follow the example of 4th generation Montana cattle rancher Howard Lyman who had spinal stem cancer and promised God he would become a vegan and promote vegan diet if her lived. Lyman and Oprah Winfrey were sued by Amarillo cattlemen twice for publicizing the widespread incidence of Mad Cow. The Amarillo men lost as the 5th Circuit ruled that the truth is not libelous.



Nebraska

Animal abusing cattle rancher Republican Sen. Deb Fischer profiteers from mammal slaughter which causes the cows agony, generates many human diseases, wastes energy and causes global climate extremes. She voted to allow hunters to murder bear cubs in an Alaskan national park. Fischer voted for executioner and tiny dove hunter Gorsuch. She favors prisoner murder. Her state is one of 7 which murdered prisoners this year. 43 did not. Please vote for Jane Raybould



Nevada

Dean Heller representing Nevada in the Senate voted to allow trophy hunters into our national park wildlife refuge in Alaska. He also voted for dovehunter and executioner Neil Gorsuch


North Dakota
Kevin Cramer of North Dakota another of the 220 GOP congresspersons voting to bring aerial hunting, bear baiting & snares, & the murder of bear cubs and wolf puppies by trophy hunters into our national park. Vote Heitkamp


Ohio
Congressman Jim Renacci of Wadsworth Ohio is running against incumbent Democrat Sherrod Brown. Renacci voted as did 200 other Republican congresspersons to bring aerial hunting into our national park in Alaska, to allow baiting of bear traps and the murder of bear cubs and wolf puppies by trophy hunters and others. Several countries have outlawed aerial hunting. Don Young, considered the most animal abusing member of the House of Rep., introduced the legislation, which for the first time allows stalking hunters to terrorize animals in what was designed as a wildlife sanctuary. Renacci's opponent, incumbent Sherrod Brown like EVERY
other Democrat senator or independent, voted against the brutal bill.



Renacci made millions in owning over 20 substandard nursing homes as he bilked the patients and Medicare. He has been sued for patient neglect and death.


Tennessee

Marsha Blackburn, Tennessee (R) running for the Senate, voted in the House for aerial hunting in our national park in Alaska, for beartrap baiting and bear snares, for the trophy hunter murder of bear cubs and wolf puppies. She has a zero rating by the HSUS, a flunking rating



Texas

Ted Cruz voted to allow hunters for the first time to murder animals in a US national park He voted for executioner and tiny dove hunter Neil Gorsuch. Cruz as TX solicitor general was like George Bush, Rick Perry, Greg Abbott and John Cornyn a Texecutioner. He argued for the execution of juveniles and the mentally ill.


Utah

Mitt Romney gave 1.9 million dollars in Burger King stock to the Mormon church which is the church most invested in animal slaughter and meat, as well as the church running the biggest calf slaughter operation in the US (Deseret in Florida). Romney as owner of IHart Radio through the sole owership of Bain Capital has profiteered from and promoted animal slaughter products. He advocated sending 50,000 more troops to Iraq (none of his own sons) both in his campaign and through the talk show hosts on his radio network. The illegal and immoral wars of our country since World War 2 have bombed, burned, smashed, abandoned people, animals, birds, frogs, butterflies, trees etc.


West Virginia

Republican Pat Morrissey running against incumbent Manchin for the Senate received $250,000 as a lobbyist for a pro animal research pharmaceutical trade organization.The group was funded by some of the same opioid distributors that West Virginia sued for flooding the state with opioids.



Wyoming

John Barrasso voted to allow hunters to invade hibernation dens to murder bear cubs in an Alaskan national park.


The following are the 225 congresspersons in the House, 220 of them Republican, who voted to turn our national wildlife sanctuary in Alaska into a shooting gallery. The 5 Democrats in italics are Peterson, Gonzalez of Texas, Cuellar, Vela and Kind.



http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2017/roll098.xml




Abraham
Aderholt
Allen
Amash
Arrington
Babin
Bacon
Banks (IN)
Barletta
Barr
Bergman
Biggs
Bilirakis
Bishop (MI)
Bishop (UT)
Black
Blackburn
Blum
Bost
Brady (TX)
Brat
Bridenstine
Brooks (AL)
Brooks (IN)
Buchanan
Buck
Bucshon
Budd
Burgess
Byrne
Calvert
Carter (GA)
Carter (TX)
Chabot
Chaffetz
Cheney
Coffman
Cole
Collins (GA)
Collins (NY)
Comer
Comstock
Conaway
Cook
Costello (PA)
Cramer
Crawford
Cuellar
Culberson
Davidson
Davis, Rodney
Denham
Dent
DeSantis
DesJarlais
Diaz-Balart
Duffy
Duncan (SC)
Duncan (TN)
Dunn
Emmer
Farenthold
Faso
Ferguson
Fleischmann
Flores
Fortenberry
Foxx
Franks (AZ)
Frelinghuysen
Gaetz
Gallagher
Garrett
Gibbs
Gohmert Gonzalez (TX)
Goodlatte
Gosar
Gowdy
Granger
Graves (GA)
Graves (LA)
Graves (MO)
Griffith
Grothman
Guthrie
Harper
Harris
Hartzler
Hensarling
Herrera Beutler
Hice, Jody B.
Higgins (LA)
Hill
Holding
Hollingsworth
Hudson
Huizenga
Hultgren
Hunter
Hurd
Issa
Jenkins (KS)
Jenkins (WV)
Johnson (LA)
Johnson (OH)
Johnson, Sam
Jones
Jordan
Joyce (OH)
Katko
Kelly (MS)
Kelly (PA)
Kind
King (IA)
Kinzinger
Knight
Kustoff (TN)
Labrador
LaHood
LaMalfa
Lamborn
Lance
Latta
Lewis (MN)
Long
Loudermilk
Love
Lucas
Luetkemeyer
Marchant
Marino
Marshall
Massie
Mast
McCarthy
McCaul
McClintock
McHenry
McKinley
McMorris Rodgers
Meadows
Meehan
Messer
Mitchell
Moolenaar
Mooney (WV)
Mullin
Murphy (PA)
Newhouse Noem
Nunes
Palazzo
Palmer
Paulsen
Pearce
Perry
Peterson
Pittenger
Poe (TX)
Poliquin
Posey
Ratcliffe
Reed
Renacci
Rice (SC)
Roby
Roe (TN)
Rogers (AL)
Rogers (KY)
Rohrabacher
Rokita
Rooney, Francis
Rooney, Thomas J.
Roskam
Ross
Rothfus
Rouzer
Royce (CA)
Russell
Rutherford
Sanford
Scalise
Schweikert
Scott, Austin
Sensenbrenner
Sessions
Shimkus
Shuster
Simpson
Smith (MO)
Smith (NE)
Smith (TX)
Smucker
Stefanik
Stivers
Taylor
Tenney
Thompson (PA)
Thornberry
Tiberi
Tipton
Turner
Valadao
Vela
Wagner
Walberg
Walden
Walker
Walorski
Walters, Mimi
Weber (TX)
Webster (FL)
Wenstrup
Westerman
Williams
Wilson (SC)
Wittman
Womack
Woodall
Yoder
Yoho
Young (AK)
Young (IA)
Zeldin
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