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Midterm Candidates Opposed by Voiceless Animals

by Populist
220 of 235 House Republicans voted to let trophy hunters bring aerial hunting and bear cub murder to our national park in Alaska. 220 House Republicans voted to murder nearly 1000 sea lions because they compete with human fish suffocaters for salmon. Every Republican senator but the ailing Isakson
(who also has an animal abuse history) voted for the use of weaponized planes by trophy hunters in Alaska.
LIST OF THE 220 TROPHY HUNTER PAWNS AMONG HOUSE REPUBLICANS

The link below lists all 220 Republicans in the House, all up for reelection, who voted to bring aerial hunting into national park wildlife refuge in Alaska, to allow hidden bear traps, to allow trophy hunters to murder bear cubs and wolf puppies in their dens All these House members can be voted out in November
http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2017/roll098.xml

LIST OF THE 220 SEA LION MURDERING REPUBLICANS IN THE HOUSE
http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2018/roll294.xml 220 House Republicans voted to authorize murder of sea lions
legislation promoted by Ryan Zinke and others

HUMANE SOCIETY RATINGS OF CONGRESS
HSUS ratings of the record of congress on animal legislation. HSUS does not mention Feinstein's
promotion of animal research throughout her entire Senate career. Her husband was overseer of the Univ of California and was involved in facilitating primate research at UC Davis and many other Univ of California campuses. etc.
http://www.hslf.org/our-work/humane-scorecard.html

THE 68 MOST COMPETITIVE HOUSE RACES
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/us/elections/house-race-ratings


ANIMAL RIGHTS ISSUES IN SENATE RACES

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. 220 Repubicans in the House including Marsha Blackburn of Tennessealso voted to murder nearly 1000 sea lions.

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.

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 for Democrat De Leon. More than 2/3 of the delegates of the California Democrat convention are opposed to Feinstein.
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 1 of 2 remaining 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-legislatio/

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.

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

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

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 and banned by manufactuer.. 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. Heller has been dismissive of the women's rights movement and a big supporter of the illegitimate Trump and his criminal nominee Kavanaugh.

New Jersey

NJ GOP Senate candidate Bob Hugin was CEO of animal torture drug co Celgene which paid 0 million in judgments re their false marketing & Medicare fraud. Celgene researched thalidomide even after children in 1959 were born without limbs from doctors pushing thalidomide on their mothers. Thalidomide had created no deformities in puppies born to captive dogs in animal research labs.
Patients for Affordable Drug Action will run ads about Hugin's pricegouging. Hugin said he would have voted for Kavanaugh.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-07-12/ex-drug-ceo-running-f
http://crueltyfreeinvesting.org/companies/celgene-corporation/
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/05/nyregion/senator-menendez-election-nj

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.. 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. He reported only 1 million of his 13 million income to the IRS one year.

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 and for sea lion murder. She has a zero rating by the HSUS, a flunking rating. She opposes gay marriage.

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. Cruz has a zero rating from the Humane Society of the US.

Utah

Mitt Romney

In 1997 Romney bought German animal torture company Behring and expanded its animal research to Miami, Florida renaming it Dade Behring. He invested in slaughterhouse products, brought brutal rodeo into the nonviolent Olympics, refused to sign a bill acknowledging the right of students to refuse to dissect animals in biology classes, filled the state wildlife agency with that 4.5% of the population which hunts, treated his family dog terribly while breaking Massachusetts law. He has harmed millions of animals. He said "I've always been a rodent and rabbit hunter.".

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 5 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.

Romney at Bain Capital
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/greed-and-debt-the-t/

The Dark Side of Mitt Romney | Vanity Fair
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/politics/2012/02/mitt-romney-201202

Romney tried to force single woman to give up baby
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/12/mitt-romney-pressure-adoption-

West Virginia

Republican Pat Morrissey running against incumbent Manchin for the Senate received 0,000 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 Republican 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. Italics designate the 5 Democrats.

To synopsize

51 Republican senators voted to allow
the murder of bear cubs and wolf puppies in their dens in our national park but Not a single Democrat senator voted for the bloodletting.
220 House Republicans voted for the trophy hunters. 193 Democrats voted
against.
Ted Cruz voted to allow trophy hunters' use of weaponized planes in our
national Alaska park as did Dean Heller of Nevada,cattle rancher Cindy Hyde Smith of MS, Jim Renacci
of Ohio, Deb Fischer of Nebraska, Kevin Cramer in Minnesota, Marsha Blackburn
of Tennessee, Rick Scott tried to bring stalking hunters into Florida parks.
Josh Hawley of Missouri sued to keep chickens 9 to a 3 ft by 1 ft cage.
Today is World Animals day, If you love animals, please vote Democratic in
the midterms.

The following is the list of the 220 of 235 House Republicans and 5 Democrats who voted to allow trophy hunters
to use weaponized planes to pick off bear, moose and other species, and to use hidden bear traps, baited bear traps, and to murder bear cubs and wolf puppies in their dens.

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

HOUSE

Alaska

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

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

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

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