The Unauthorized Randy “Duke” Cunningham Page

Tue, July 27, 1999 9:47 am


Dan,

I had an opportunity to view your web site on "Duke" Cunningham. Thanks for exposing this guy's record. It's abysmal, and out of step with this district.

I was glad you had information about Cunningham's work to gut dolphin protection laws. He recently voted on the floor of the House against two animal protection amendments — one, to save tax dollars that go to kill predators as a subsidy for livestock ranchers in the West; the second, to bar the expenditure of funds to promote the use of deadly steel-jawed leghold traps on national wildlife refuges.

His district heavily favored Proposition 4 in November 1998, which several restricted the use of all body-gripping traps in California. Even though that's now the law of the land in California, he still supports steel traps on refuges for commercial fur trapping and recreation.

Cunningham's a menace to any furred, feathered, or finned creature. Let me know if
you need more information.

Regards,
Wayne Pacelle
Senior Vice President
Communications and Government Affairs
http://www.hsus.org/
The Humane Society of the United States