Senate bill would stop DEC pro-hunter discrimination - Please support
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Senate bill would stop DEC pro-hunter discrimination - Please support

From: Animal Defenders of Westchester (ADOW)
April 20, 2017 

Please sign PETITION on Change.org - DEC Must Allow Non-Hunters to Serve on their Advisory Board.

Senator Avella has introduced a bill to correct the grossly unfair 'Hunters Only' requirement to serve on the DEC advisory board - a law that guarantees the lethal treatment of wildlife from the top on down, from an agency which is supposed to protect them.

https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2017/S3327

The passage of this bill is crucial to improving the treatment of wildlife. The NYS legislature begins legislative work on Monday, Apr 23; Pls contact Speaker Carl Heastie, Majority Leader John J. Flanagan and your local reps, via email and/or hard copy, to express support for S3327/A6519 and urge them to vote for it:

Carl Heastie, Speaker of the Assembly:
EMAIL: [email protected]
LOB 932
Albany, NY 12248

John J Flanagan, Senate Majority Leader:
EMAIL: [email protected]
Room 330, State Capitol Building
Albany , NY 12247

Find your elected officials here:

http://www.ny.gov/agencies 

https://openstates.org/ny/legislators/

NOTE:
IF YOU HAVE YOUR OWN AR OR OTHERWISE HUMANE ORG, PLEASE INDICATE YOUR STATUS ON YOUR LETTER, ALONG WITH LETTERHEAD, CITING YOUR ENDORSEMENT, particularly regarding Heastie and Flanagan.

Sample Letter:
(Cite bill S3327/A6519 in subject line if emailing)

Dear Hon. __________

I am writing in support of Senate bill S3327, a vitally important bill that will correct the grossly unfair and discriminatory requirement to be a hunter in order to serve on the DEC advisory board. This never should have been in place and serves absolutely no purpose but to garner a lethal, biased outcome from an agency created 'to protect New York State's wild animal populations.' Thank you for your kind and principled assistance,

Respectfully,
Your Name
Contact Information

Please cc copies of your letters to us for record-keeping with Sen. Avella

Any questions, contact us at [email protected]
or [email protected]

Thank you for making these contacts; they should never have been allowed to create a 'Hunters only' DEC requirement in the first place and this major inequity should be corrected asap.

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