Chances are you’ve figured out who your presidential pick is or have even voted for him. Some of the offices lower on the ballot, however, may require a little consideration if, like many voters, you really had no idea who’s running for District Court until you saw a sample ballot. Here are some interest groups and other folks whose endorsements might give a little guidance:
North Carolina Voters for Animal Welfare
Black Political Caucus of Charlotte-Mecklenburg
Mecklenburg Gay & Lesbian Political Action Committee (MeckPAC)
County Commissioner Bill James
This article appears in Oct 21-28, 2008.
Just to let you know, the first group on your list, is an animal rights activist organization. Such organizations are designated by the FBI in 2004 as our country’s most pressing domestically spawned internal terrorist problem. The founders and officers of the NCVAW are avid supporters of DDB (whose founder was recently founded guilty in a PA court of animal theft), Peta, and HSUS. The NCVAW wish to bring the aforementioned animal rights organizations’ ideals and legislative initiatives to NC. Such inititiatives will severly limit or end our present rights to hunt and own animals. Such organizations are fringe elements whose intent is anarchy and mahem.
Bill Buell
NC Coalition of Animal Owners
I intended to select groups of varying ideologies when I posted endorsements. One who supports the N.C. Family Policy Council, for instance, is not likely to support Equality N.C. or Planned Parenthood.
Dogs Deserve Better is a group that doesn’t believe dogs should live their lives on chains. Its founder was found guilty last year of theft after she took a malnourished dog from its neglectful owner’s back yard. Photos and video attested to the animal’s sad condition, but that was legally outweighed by the court’s decree that she had taken another person’s property. How that equates to an internal terrorist problem, I’m unsure.
And I certainly would not consider the Humane Society of the United States — a group with more than 10 million members — a fringe organization, much less a terrorist one.
Likewise, PETA’s tactics may be annoying and their goals may be contrary to many people’s beliefs, but the group can hardly be equated with domestic terrorism.
Also, the right to have animals and the right to hunt them are not inextricably linked.