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Posted by Cynthia on 08-05-2009 08:42 PM:

NC SB460 - immediate action needed

08/05/09 Senators voted 23 to 22 to pass bad dog bill; SB#460 races to the House

WE MUST KILL SB#460 IN THE NC HOUSE!

Dear Cynthia:

Senators passed SB#460 today with a vote of 23 to 22. We came very close to defeating this anti-dog bill, as we hoped, but they beat us by one vote. Thanks to you who worked hard to tell Senators how much we oppose animal rights legislation.

Now, we turn to the NC House, where we MUST DEFEAT THIS BILL!

Gossip at the General Assembly: The Legislative Assistant in a Senator's office admitted, "Calls have been about 50-50 for and against the bill. But only about 5 of calls in favor of the bill had NC area codes!" Surprise! HSUS had outsiders calling to make it appear as if NC voters favor the bill when we do not.

SB#460 raced to the House, where it was "read in" (1st reading) and assigned to the House Commerce Committee (info on Commerce members attached). The animal rights lobbyists were racing over to the House behind us to start working members of the Commerce Committee. They are pushing to have the bill heard next week. Adjournment is in sight, and we want to stop the bill from any hearing.

We need your help!

SB#460 is and always has been an animal rights activist bill. The purpose is to locate, harass, and ultimately destroy small dog breeders. This bill would provide a foot-in-the-door to your dog pens! We must alert House Commerce Committee members to VOTE NO if the bill is brought up before adjournment.

Commercial breeder will include anyone who has (not necessarily owns) 15 more more intact female dogs of breeding age (what is that?) and 30 or more puppies primarily for the purpose of sale. (If you don't have dogs for sale, AR radicals can still allege you do and you will have to hire attorney and go to court to prove them wrong.)

There is no effective exemption for breeding hunting dogs (Section 2). The exemption is only if you board or train hunting dogs. There is no exemption language for breeding hunting dogs.

You would be forced to be listed on the internet (Section 3), which will make it easier for animal rights activists to locate you. This is one of the worst aspects of the bill.

For more information, read SB#460 at www.ncleg.net.

FYI, here is the Senate vote (Remember these names for 2010 elections):

3rd Reading vote on SB#460 on Wednesday, 08/05/09
IN FAVOR of bad bill SB#460 (23 votes)
Basnight, Blue, Boseman, Clodfelter, Dannelly, Davis, Dorsett, Foriest, Garrou, Graham, Hoyle, Hunt, Jenkins, Jones, Kinnaird, McKissick, Nesbitt, Purcell, Rand, Shaw, Soles, Stein, Vaughan.

AGAINST SB#460 (22 votes) OUR HEROES--Please email or call them to thank them for standing up for our rights! Albertson, Allran, Apodaca, Doug Berger, Phil Berger, Blake, Brown, Brunstetter, Clary, East, Forrester, Goodall, Goss, Hartsell, Jacumin, Preston, Rouzer, Rucho, Show, Swindell, Tillman, Weinstein.

ABSENT: Atwater, Bingham
Not voting (but not excused) Queen
Paired Brock & Stevens (so neither vote was counted)

SEE ATTACHMENT WITH INFORMATION ABOUT NC HOUSE COMMERCE COMMITTEE MEMBERS. Please call and email them immediately to ask they oppose Senate Bill #460.

Do not limit yourself to your own Representative. Please call & email all of the 32 House Commerce Committee members.

Thanks for your efforts to protect dog hunting and dog breeding in North Carolina.

Henri McClees
NC Sporting Dog Association, Inc.
PO Box 430
Oriental, NC 28571
office (252) 249-1097; fax (252) 249-3275
www.ncsportingdog.org
Henri's mobile (252) 671-1559; Joe's mobile (252) 671-1585

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Posted by Cynthia on 08-06-2009 01:26 PM:

updated - headed to the house.

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