Stop the Alaskan Wolf Hunt

There is reason for hope in Alaska. The state’s anti-wolf governor recently lost his primary, and a state ballot measure group is just weeks from turning in the signatures they need to put aerial gunning on the Alaska ballot. The tide is turning, but we need your help to secure lasting victory for Alaska wolves. Help put this critical ballot initiative over the top. Please donate now to help support our work.

Since 2003, Alaska’s Board of Game has allowed the brutal practice of aerial gunning. Under the state’s program, gunmen in private planes can shoot wolves from low flying aircraft or chase them to exhaustion, land and kill them at point-blank range.

Over the last year, Alaskans for Wildlife, a statewide group of sportsmen, scientists and recreationists, has been gathering signatures for a ballot measure that would prohibit using aircraft to kill wolves and bears, except by the Alaska Department of Fish and Game in cases of biological emergencies.

They’ve collected tens of thousands of signatures to put this crucial issue before the Alaskan public -- who have twice before voted to end the use of aerial gunning only to have their will overturned by the state legislature. Defenders of Wildlife Action Fund has committed to do everything in our power to help Alaskans for Wildlife secure a lasting victory for common sense wolf management on America’s last frontier.

Please help support our work. Donate right now to save Alaska wolves. Later today, Defenders of Wildlife Action Fund and our sister organization, Defenders of Wildlife, will send messages to mobilize our wildlife activists in Alaska.

Our message is simple: Sign Alaskans for Wildlife’s petition and let Alaskans, not out-of-state trophy hunters, determine the fate of the state’s wolves.And that’s not all our groups are doing to protect wolves.

Because the Bush Administration has repeatedly failed to enforce the Federal Airborne Hunting Act as its authors clearly intended, we’re exploring ways to amend the Act to compel the Administration to action. We don’t have much time. Signatures for the Alaska ballot petition are due by the end of October.

We need your help to meet our goal of raising $50,000 by October 1st. Please make a donation right now!

Your contribution will help support our efforts in Congress to improve federal law to protect wolves from aerial gunning. It will also help us highlight this terrible practice in the media and mobilize grassroots support to protect wolves.

More than 550 wolves have been killed since Alaska reinstated its aerial gunning program. You can help end this brutal practice

Make sure voting machines give paper recipts

Remember the 2000 and 2004 general elections? Voters in Florida, Ohio and other states were caught up in electoral debacles that led to major problems on Election Day and voter distrust of our election system today.Voting problems could happen again this November, when an estimated 40% of American voters will use an electronic voting machine to cast their ballot.

Demand verified voting.

These machines, which were supposed to be part of election reform, leave NO paper record of our votes! They provide no permanent documentation that could prove that votes are being counted accurately. In the world's greatest democracy - this is just unacceptable.

Measures are especially needed in Florida and Ohio, where so many votes appear to have been mishandled in recent elections. Join me in calling on the Governors of Florida and Ohio to set an example for the whole nation.

Demand that they require any electronic voting machines used in their states to provide voters with a paper receipt.

Take action! Join Senator Evan Bayh in calling on Governor Bush and Governor Taft to lead the way for verified voting in the critical states of Florida and Ohio

Mark Foley the only bad Republican out there? Think Again! (Read Below)

<http://www.cafepress.com/antibush04>Republicans want Americans to believe Mark Foley's sex crimes are completely isolated. But in reality, the number of reported sex crimes by Republicans is extraordinarily high. Here is a partial list with links:http://www.armchairsubversive.com/

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*Republican "Values?" *What Republican "values?" They lie, cheat, steal and now we find theymolest kids and conspire to cover up these crimes!

Voice your outrageover the criminality and hypocrisy of right wing neo-con Republicans!Republican Sex Crimes: Republican Congressman Mark Foley abruptly resigned from Congress after "sexually explicit" emails surfaced showing him flirting with a 16-year old boy.

Republican executive Randall Casseday of the conservative Washington Times newspaper was arrested for soliciting sex from a 13-year old girl on the internet.

Republican chairman of the Oregon Christian Coalition Lou Beres confessed to molesting a 13-year old girl.

Republican County Constable Larry Dale Floyd was arrested on suspicion of soliciting sex with an 8-year old girl.

Floyd has repeatedly won elections for Denton County, Texas, constable.

Republican judge Mark Pazuhanich pleaded no contest to fondling a 10-year old girl and was sentenced to 10 years probation.

Republican Party leader Bobby Stumbo was arrested for having sex with a 5-year old boy.

Republican petition drive manager Tom Randall pleaded guilty to molesting two girls under the age of 14, one of them the daughter of an associate in the petition business. Republican County Chairman Armando Tebano was arrested for sexually molesting a 14-year-old girl.

Republican teacher and former city councilman John Collins pleaded guilty to sexually molesting 13 and 14 year old girls.

Republican campaign worker Mark Seidensticker is a convicted child molester.

Republican Mayor Philip Giordano is serving a 37-year sentence in federal prison for sexually abusing 8- and 10-year old girls.

Republican Mayor Tom Adams was arrested for distributing child pornography over the internet.

Republican Mayor John Gosek was arrested on charges of soliciting sex from two 15-year old girls.

Republican County Commissioner David Swartz pleaded guilty to molesting two girls under the age of 11 and was sentenced to 8 years in prison.

Republican legislator Edison Misla Aldarondo was sentenced to 10 years in prison for raping his daughter between the ages of 9 and 17.

Republican Committeeman John R. Curtain was charged with molesting a teenage boy and unlawful sexual contact with a minor.

Republican anti-abortion activist Howard Scott Heldreth is a convicted child rapist in Florida.

Republican zoning supervisor, Boy Scout leader and Lutheran church president Dennis L. Rader pleaded guilty to performing a sexual act on an 11-year old girl he murdered.

Republican anti-abortion activist Nicholas Morency pleaded guilty to possessing child pornography on his computer and offering a bounty to anybody who murders an abortion doctor.

Republican campaign consultant Tom Shortridge was sentenced to three years probation for taking nude photographs of a 15-year old girl

.Republican racist pedophile and United States Senator Strom Thurmond had sex with a 15-year old black girl which produced a child.

Republican pastor Mike Hintz, whom George W. Bush commended during the 2004 presidential campaign, surrendered to police after admitting to a sexual affair with a female juvenile.

Republican legislator Peter Dibble pleaded no contest to having an inappropriate relationship with a 13-year-old girl.

Republican advertising consultant Carey Lee Cramer was sentenced to six years in prison for molesting two 8-year old girls, one of whom appeared in an anti-Gore television commercial.

Republican activist Lawrence E. King, Jr. organized child sex parties at the White House during the 1980s.

Republican lobbyist Craig J. Spence organized child sex parties at the White House during the 1980s.

Republican Congressman Donald "Buz" Lukens was found guilty of having sex with a female minor and sentenced to one month in jail.

Republican fundraiser Richard A. Delgaudio was found guilty of child porn charges and paying two teenage girls to pose for sexual photos.

Republican activist Mark A. Grethen convicted on six counts of sex crimes involving children.

Republican campaign chairman Randal David Ankeney pleaded guilty to attempted sexual assault on a child and was arrested again five years later on the same charge.

Republican Congressman Dan Crane had sex with a female minor working as a congressional page.

Republican activist and Christian Coalition leader Beverly Russell admitted to an incestuous relationship with his step daughter.

Republican Judge Ronald C. Kline was placed under house arrest for child molestation and possession of child pornography.

Republican congressman and anti-gay activist Robert Bauman was charged with having sex with a 16-year-old boy he picked up at a gay bar.

Republican Committee Chairman Jeffrey Patti was arrested for distributing a video clip of a 5-year-old girl being raped.

Republican activist Marty Glickman (a.k.a. "Republican Marty"), was taken into custody by Florida police on four counts of unlawful sexual activity with an underage girl and one count of delivering the drug LSD.

Republican legislative aide Howard L. Brooks was charged with molesting a 12-year old boy and possession of child pornography.

Republican Senate candidate John Hathaway was accused of having sex with his 12-year old baby sitter and withdrew his candidacy after the allegations were reported in the media.

Republican preacher Stephen White, who demanded a return to traditional values, was sentenced to jail after offering $20 to a 14-year-old boy for permission to perform oral sex on him.

Republican talk show host Jon Matthews pleaded guilty to exposing his genitals to an 11 year old girl.

Republican anti-gay activist Earl "Butch" Kimmerling was sentenced to 40 years in prison for molesting an 8-year old girl after he attempted to stop a gay couple from adopting her.

Republican Party leader Paul Ingram pleaded guilty to six counts of raping his daughters and served 14 years in federal prison.

Republican election board official Kevin Coan was sentenced to two years probation for soliciting sex over the internet from a 14-year old girl.

Republican politician Andrew Buhr was charged with two counts of first degree sodomy with a 13-year old boy.

Republican legislator Keith Westmoreland was arrested on seven felony counts of lewd and lascivious exhibition to girls under the age of 16 (i.e. exposing himself to children).

Republican anti-abortion activist John Allen Burt was found guilty of molesting a 15-year old girl.

Republican County Councilman Keola Childs pleaded guilty to molesting a male child.R

epublican activist John Butler was charged with criminal sexual assault on a teenage girl.

Republican candidate Richard Gardner admitted to molesting his two daughters.

Republican Councilman and former Marine Jack W. Gardner was convicted of molesting a 13-year old girl.

Republican County Commissioner Merrill Robert Barter pleaded guilty to unlawful sexual contact and assault on a teenage boy.

Republican City Councilman Fred C. Smeltzer, Jr. pleaded no contest to raping a 15 year-old girl and served 6-months in prison.

Republican activist Parker J. Bena pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography on his home computer and was sentenced to 30 months in federal prison and fined $18,000.

Republican parole board officer and former Colorado state representative, Larry Jack Schwarz, was fired after child pornography was found in his possession.

Republican strategist and Citadel Military College graduate Robin Vanderwall was convicted in Virginia on five counts of soliciting sex from boys and girls over the internet.

Republican city councilman Mark Harris, who is described as a "good military man" and "church goer," was convicted of repeatedly having sex with an 11-year-old girl and sentenced to 12 years in prison.


Republican businessman Jon Grunseth withdrew his candidacy for Minnesota governor after allegations surfaced that he went swimming in the nude with four underage girls, including his daughter.

Republican campaign worker, police officer and self-proclaimed reverend Steve Aiken was convicted of having sex with two underage girls.

Republican director of the "Young Republican Federation" Nicholas Elizondo molested his 6-year old daughter and was sentenced to six years in prison.

Republican president of the New York City Housing Development Corp. Russell Harding pleaded guilty to possessing child pornography on his computer.

Republican benefactor of conservative Christian groups, Richard A. Dasen Sr., was found guilty of raping a 15-year old girl. Dasen, 62, who is married with grown children and several grandchildren, has allegedly told police that over the past decade he paid more than $1 million to have sex with a large number of young women.

Republican Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld authorized the rape of children in Iraqi prisons in order to humiliate their parents into providing information about the anti-American insurgency. See excerpt of one prisoner's report here and his full report here.

U.S. Project Could Spark Atomic War

U.S. project could start atomic war, experts warn - A Pentagon project to modify its deadliest nuclear missile for use as a conventional weapon against targets such as North Korea and Iran could unwittingly spark an atomic war, two weapons experts warned Thursday.· U.S. Casualties in Iraq Rise Sharply · Bomb rips Tal Afar; more bodies found in Baghdad · America ponders cutting Iraq in three · The Secret Letter From Iraq - A Marine's letter home, with its frank description of life in "Dante's inferno," has been circulating through generals' in-boxes.