A lot has been written about John McCain’s pick for Vice President (Sarah Palin), but here are a few things you might not know:
- She has championed aerial gunning of wolves and bears and approved a $400,000 state-funded campaign to promote this awful practice. If you don't know what aerial gunning is, basically, Alaska officials allow airborne gunners to kill hundreds of wolves. Easy targets against the snow, hundreds of wolves have been shot from above or chased to exhaustion and then killed by aerial gunners who land and execute them at point-blank range. While I'm not a supporter of hunting, I believe if you ARE going to hunt, there's a right way and a wrong way to do it. There is something cowardly and pathetic about not doing the work - not hunting on the ground and going after the animal the way it should be done. Instead, these people just fly over the animal, frighten and exhaust it, and shoot it - how pathetic.
- As governor of Alaska, Sarah Palin proposed paying a $150 bounty for the severed left foreleg of each dead wolf.
- Just this summer, Palin's Alaska Fish and Game personnel, with authorization from the Alaska Board of Game, helicoptered into known denning areas knowing adult wolf pack / family members would remain to protect their pups. As a result, 14 adult wolves were killed in addition to 14 one-month old pups they were protecting, for a total of 28 wolves killed. This killing of wolf pups via denning (denning is the practice of killing wolves in or around their den, in this case by shooting them in the head) is against the law, regardless of whether it is done by the public or Alaska Department of Fish & Game.
Its important for citizens to be informed and not just vote on looks, popularity, or man vs. woman. Please inform yourselves...learn more about Palin’s record online at:
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