VA * PLS READ ASAP: Virginia Voters for Animal Welfare / URGENT!

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PLEASE FORWARD AND CROSSPOST ASAP!! NEED NAME SENT TO LILLIAN NOW, CONTACT INFO BELOW Please send this to as many people in VA that you know who care about animals and their well being. We needed this YESTERDAY! Ask your friends to SEND AN EMAIL BACK NOW TO lsclancy with the way they want

their NAME signed, & include any group, organization, etc they belong to. We need the signatures today, NOW! Thank you! Sandi Barrett Virginia Voters for Animal Welfare Alert 6-3-07: Dogfighting Letter - Please Sign Below is a letter the Board of Directors of VVAW/VAW will send out. We want you to support this effort by signing this letter. Read the letter (below), and see where it will be sent (below - list starting with Governor Kaine). If you want your name signed to the letter, send an email back with the way you want your name to appear, and your affiliation with an animal welfare group, if any. If you are an officer in the animal group, please indicate that. If you are an Independent, so indicate. We need your signatures by Wednesday, 6/6/07, as the letter will go out by Friday, 6/8/07. The Letter: We the undersigned Virginians involved with animal

welfare, oppose blood sport, particularly cock- and dogfighting, and want it stopped. The current case involving suspected dogfighting in Surry County begs for maximum prosecution of those involved, and we support and exhort all who can make this happen. Dogfighting is already illegal. Dogfighting itself is enough to warrant maximum penalties for those involved. But when drugs, gambling, and minors so starved for credible role models are harmed, it becomes an imperative for taking action. Penalties should be increased and applied more vigorously for blood sport participants and

those attending. National reporting of court cases involving blood sport proceedings, state by state, is in order, so there is no opportunity to cross the state line as has happened between Virginia and North Carolina. Governments should resolve that those in professional football convicted of involvement in dogfighting or other blood sports should be permanently prevented from playing professionally in the United States. Perhaps it is appropriate to boycott the companies which contract with suspended and convicted professional football players to endorse their products. Because of your position

and your ability to advocate in this situation, by our signatures to this letter we ask you for action. Where the signed Letter will be sent: Government Governor Timothy Kaine Lt. Governor Bill Bolling Attorney General Robert F. McDonnell State Veterinarian Richard Wilkes, DVM Speaker William Howell, Virginia House of Delegates Majority Leader, Walter Stosch, Virginia State Senate Minority Leader, Richard Saslaw, Virginia State Senate VA Sheriffs Association VA State Police Association Local (Surry) Government Surry County Commonwealth Attorney Circuit Court judges Surry County Tourism Dept. Surry County Administrator and BOS state/federal legislators for Surry County Professional Sports NFL Commissioner president/owner of each NFL football team Vick's agent players' association Sports Writers Sports Illustrated local Surry newspapers Richmond papers wire services ESPN Thank you.

Together we can make a difference. Lillian Clancy and Don Marro and the Board of VVAW/VAW Peyton Coyner Debra Griggs Kim Kincheloe Mollie McCurdy Pat Weakland Virginia Voters for Animal Welfare http://www.dogsdeservebetter.com/ See what's free at AOL.com. Patricia Breen www.petstorecruelty.org

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