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URGENT ACTION NEEDED FEBRUARY 16, 2012

SB175, the cockfighting bill passed committee yesterday. Now we have a time crunch to get it on the Senate calendar for a floor vote. There has been a phenomenal amount of media support on this issue, as well as collaborative effort by many groups who all realize that failing to pass this bill would be a terrible shame for us all. I have attached a flyer highlighting some media. Inside Edition will be airing a segment on an undercover entry in a Mobile cockpit next week. We also have some TV commercials running for one week, beginning next week. Is it essential that pressure be put on the legislature to keep this bill moving.

The two most important people to contact are Senate Majority Leader Jabo Waggoner and Senate President ProTempore Del Marsh. Be very polite when you ask them to please get this bill on the calendar. Contact them several different times and ask two friends, (more is better) to do the same. Provide your friends with the contact info.

Del Marsh- http://www.alprotem.com/contact/

this is the contact page for Senator Marsh. Let’s all be sending a message from there. His # 334-242-7877 256-237-1931

Senator Majority Leader Jabo Waggoner jabo.waggoner@alsenate.gov 334-242-7892 205-822-7443

Below are phone numbers for all of the Senators- please contact yours at least three times and have friends do the same. Ask them to support SB 175 and get it to the floor!!

ROSTER OF THE ALABAMA STATE SENATE

MEMBERS OF THE SENATE Senator Party District Room # Office Phone

ALLEN, Gerald (R) 21 729 334-242-7889

BEASLEY, Billy (D) 28 737 334-242-7868

BEASON, Scott (R) 17 726 334-242-7794

BEDFORD, Roger (D) 6 738 334-242-7862

BLACKWELL, Slade (R) 15 733 334-242-7851

BREWBAKER, Dick (R) 25 734 334-242-7895

BROOKS, Ben (R) 35 729 334-242-7882

BUSSMAN, Paul (R) 4 729 334-242-7855

COLEMAN, Linda (D) 20 735 334-242-7864

DIAL, Gerald (R) 13 732 334-242-7874

DUNN, Priscilla (D) 19 737 334-242-7793

FIELDING, Jerry (D) 11 735 334-242-7898

FIGURES, Vivian Davis (D) 33 736 334-242-7871

GLOVER, Rusty (R) 34 721 334-242-7886

HOLLEY, Jimmy (R) 31 732 334-242-7845

HOLTZCLAW, Bill (R) 2 731 334-242-7854

IRONS, Tammy (D) 1 737 334-242-7888

KEAHEY, Marc (D) 22 738 334-242-7843

MARSH, Del (R) 12 722 334-242-7877

McGILL, Shadrack (R) 8 731 334-242-7858

ORR, Arthur (R) 3 730 334-242-7891

PITTMAN, Trip (R) 32 730 334-242-7897

REED, Greg (R) 5 734 334-242-7894

ROSS, Quinton T., Jr. (D) 26 735 334-242-7880

SANDERS, Hank (D) 23 736 334-242-7860

SANFORD, Paul (R) 7 731 334-242-7867

SCOFIELD, Clay (R) 9 731 334-242-7876

SINGLETON, Bobby (D) 24 735 334-242-7935

SMITH, Harri Anne (I) 29 740 334-242-7879

SMITHERMAN, Rodger (D) 18 737 334-242-7870

TAYLOR, Bryan (R) 30 733 334-242-7883

WAGGONER, J. T. "Jabo" (R) 16 726 334-242-7892

WARD, Cam (R) 14 719 334-242-7873

WHATLEY, Tom (R) 27 733 334-242-7865

WILLIAMS, Phil (R) 10 733 334-242-7857

Senators that we know intend to try to kill the bill-Marc Keahey, Gerald Dial, Shad McGill, Clay Scofield.

I cannot emphasize enough that all of your calls be polite. Legislators respond badly to what they think is rudeness and it can derail a bill. Speak from the heart and let them know how important it is to you that this bill passes. Cockfighting is a slur against the values that most Alabamians are known for. Passing this bill would sent a strong statement about our state- we won’t tolerate animal fighting.

Mindy Gilbert
Alabama State Director
t 205-471-5541

Humane Society of the United States
mgilbert@humanesociety.org

4 Proposed Laws in 2012

Click here for details of the 4 bills that are being proposed by HSUS and AL Humane Federation: Beastiality bill, Mandatory abuse reporting bill, bill to protect spay/neuter clincis and bill to strengthen penalties for cockfighting.

Click here for 2012 Animal Protection Legislative Strategy

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Code of Alabama Animal Laws

Click here for the Code of Alabama Animal Laws including vicious animal roaming at large, cruelty to animals and rabies vaccination.

LEGISLATIVE UPDATES 2011

APRIL 6, 2011 -- URGENT!!-COCKFIGHTING BILL, HB74 GOES TO HOUSE FLOOR ON THURSDAY-Your help is needed now to pass this historic bill. The cockfighting bill has never gotten this far and will go no further without your help. Please call and e mail your representative today and tomorrow and politely ask him/her to pass HB74, the cockfighting bill on Thursday. If you don’t know who your representative is, here is the link to the look up page,
http://www.legislature.state.al.us/misc/zipsearch.html
HB 74 strengthens the penalties for cockfighting- right now Alabama has the weakest law in the nation- a maximum penalty of $50-so weak it is not a deterrent. Pass this request on to your family, friends and co-workers and ask them to pass it on too.If you have a Representative tell you that they will not support the bill, please let me know who it is so we can work on them. We may never again have this opportunity. Please make the call and let you legislator know that cockfighting is a smear on Alabama. From Conan Devine, Alabama Animal Control Association.

Rep McMillan Discusses Proposed Bill with Animal Advocates

Representative Stephen McMillan with the Alabama State Legislature 95th District (Baldwin) met with animal advocates on September 2, 2010, to discuss the proposed bills to eliminate the use of carbon monoxide gas chambers in Alabama animal facilities.

Participating in the discussion were August “Gus“ Palumbo, Daphne City Councilman District 7, and the Baldwin County Humane Society (BARC!) -- Kathy Murchison, volunteer; Wendy Vogel, Board Member and Sonja Presley, Executive Director.

Sandra Nathan with Alabama Voters for Responsible Animal Legislation (AVRAL) compared their proposed bill with the bill by the Alabama Humane Federation.

Representative McMillan, who is comparing the language in each bill, stated “One bill is preferred. We need to agree on the language that will adequately offer some protection and assurance of humane euthanasia in injection methods allowed.”

Palumbo was instrumental in removing the Daphne City Animal Shelter‘s gas chamber in 2007. Palumbo summarized this meeting with “Every rescue group -- big and small -- and every animal advocate needs to unite and make a difference.”

Presley agreed. “Collectively, our voice is very powerful. That‘s why everyone needs to attend the grass roots meeting on September 23 at the Fairhope Civic Center. BARC! Is co-hosting this meeting with The Haven to further protection of the animals, whether through legislation or corporate and public policy.”

Mindy Gilbert, Alabama State Director for the Humane Society of the United States, is the guest speaker. The meeting is free to the public; for more information visit www.BaldwinHumane.org or call 251.928.4585.

Click here to contact Rep McMillan about the proposed bill.