Palin hits back at Judd

[Faygo Kid]

Source: Politico

Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R) defended herself Wednesday against an ad featuring actress Ashley Judd that accuses her of “championing the slaughter of wildlife.”

In a statement released through the governor’s office, Palin called the ad, paid for by Defenders of Wildlife, “reprehensible and hypocritical.”

“The ad campaign by this extreme fringe group, as Alaskans have witnessed over the last several years, distorts the facts about Alaska’s wildlife management programs,” Palin said. “These audacious fundraising attempts misrepresent what goes on in Alaska, and I encourage people to learn the facts about Alaska’s positive record of managing wildlife for abundance.”

“Shame on the Defenders of Wildlife for twisting the truth in an effort to raise funds from innocent and hard-pressed Americans struggling with these rough economic times,” she continued. . .

Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0209/18406.html

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According to Sarah, Defenders of Wildlife is an "extreme fringe group?"

Damn, I'm already a member; now I have to send them more money.

Thanks for speaking up, Ashley!

[Blue_In_AK]

1. AK Muckraker at The Mudflats responds to Palin's response

http://www.themudflats.net/2009/02/04/palin-responds-to-defenders-of-wildlife/

[Cha]

18. Nobody can lie and attack with full venom

fangs like palin.

"And it never ceases to amaze me with what speed the Governor’s office seems to address matters of great importance. And it also never ceases to amaze me what their definition of “great importance” seems to be. Have we heard anything from the Governor about how destitute Alaskans in rural villages are going cold and hungry because of the fishery collapse in Bristol Bay? No. Not one word in 23 days. But we’ve had official press releases on state letterhead with titles like “Governor Palin Says to Media, “There You Go Again” and “Governor Palin Releases Statement on Defenders of Wildlife Campaign“."


Keep up the good work..Defenders of Wildlife. You've got palin on the run.

[Barack_America]

2. *cough*$250,000 wardrobe*cough*

Please, Sarah, don't even try to criticize someone for wasting contributions.

[FiveGoodMen]

3. WHY is this BITCH still in the NEWS?!?!?!?

[emilyg]

15. So you can feel big by typing the b word.

[FiveGoodMen]

33. Since I have the person who responded to me on ignore, I'll respond to myself

When using a personal pronoun to refer to a man one says "he".

When using a personal pronoun to refer to a woman one says "she".

When using an epithet to disparage a man with a bad attitude the word is "bastard" (also starts with B).

When using an epithet to disparage a woman with a bad attitude the word is "bitch".

That's just how the language works: he/she, bastard/bitch.

[geckosfeet]

4. HUH!!! Hey Palin - people who shoot wolves from helicopters are a fringe group.

I mean - how many of you sick fucking sadistic whacko's are there in the world? 100? 200? 1000? 10,000? Sounds like a minority fringe to me.

Rotten sick bitch.

[Demeter]

7. It's Not The Quantity,But the Quality

I'm sure if Cheney could get his wheelchair on a chopper he'd be out there with Sarah.

[rpannier]

5. Fringe huh?

And I`m a member

Cool

[hamsterjill]

27. I'm a member, too

And every time Palin does something spiteful like this, it just makes me want to send a few more bucks to Defenders to help them fight idiots like her.

The act of shooting anything from a helicopter is complete and total cowardice.

[Optical.Catalyst]

6. Truth hurts - hugh Sarah? n/t

[NeoConsSuck]

8. Dear Mrs Palin

I am a hard pressed American struggling with these hard economic times, although I am not a make-believe plumber.

I have been donating to Defenders of Wildlife for the past 10 years, and will continue to do so.

Fuck off Palin.

[mitchum]

9. She really doesn't like other women, does she?

[sutz12]

21. She's a Republican. She doesn't like anybody.

:shrug:

[Kind of Blue]

10. Thanks, Sarah. You've convinced me

to donate to the Defenders of Wildlife. I wonder how Alaska is doing in these hard economic times, while she out pallin' around with those despicable elites at the Alfalfa Club?

[Blue_In_AK]

19. We have a $1.65 billion budget deficit

that she was claiming today she cut a quarter mil out of, although she didn't really. http://community.adn.com/adn/node/137527

[Lasher]

23. Just like the bridge to nowhere.

She claims to have said 'no thanks' but she took the money and used it on other projects.

[Kind of Blue]

24. Thanks for the link!

We're facing $43billion in California without savings. I'm not comparing states and am no economist, but $7billion in savings with an estimated over $7billion shortfall, it seems to me with some smart minds and a focused governor working on the problem, Alaska could ride this disaster, and still get money from the stimulus that she won't refuse though she's pushing against it. Very frustrating.

[Raine]

11. Shame on Palin

cause she's the one on the "extreme fringe".

[UTUSN]

12. K&R #4, give it a BIG #5!1n/t

[Tumbulu]

13. I'm a member and for Christmas presents I adopted a polar bear and an alaskan wolf

just to try to save a few from this beasts talons.

keep up the good work, Defenders of Wildlife!

[gordianot]

14. When will she just go away?

[Tab]

16. Never mind

I thought this article (on quick perusal) was about Senator Judd Gregg. Now I see it's even more trivial than that.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

17. I guess it would seem like an extreme fringe group

to a fundy wack-o extremist like her.

I'd like to know what she feels has been distorted...
Perhaps they don't really shoot wolves from helicopters, but use hang gliders instead?

[1776Forever]

20. History of Aeiral Wolf Hunting from a Native Alaskan - Palin Lied!

Wolf in Governor’s Clothing…
Posted by: shannynmoore | September 23, 2008

http://shannynmoore.wordpress.com/2008/09/23/wolf-in-governors-clothing/

(snip)

Alaska has a long history of bounties and hunting-much of it controversial. Aerial wolf hunting began in 1948. In 1972, Congress passed a law that prohibited aerial wolf hunting. Problem solved? No, under the guise of “wolf control,” permits were issued to “pilot gunner” teams in 1979. In 1992, under Governor Walter Hickel’s Administration, the Alaska Board of Game initiated a wolf control program with the goal of reducing numbers by 80%. Under threat of a massive tourist boycott, the “land and shoot” policy was reintroduced. During Democrat Governor Tony Knowles Administration, only non-lethal measures were used against wolves. The Wolf Management Reform Coalition collected 33,000 signatures to put an aerial wolf hunting ban on the November 1996 ballot; 59% of Alaskans voted for it, with the exception being a biological emergency. A Republican Legislature introduced SB74. This bill eliminated the need for a biological emergency to justify aerial wolf control and usurped the will of the people. Governor Knowles vetoed the bill and the Republican majority overrode it. In March of 2000, SB267 was passed which allowed hunters other than the state biologists to aerially shoot wolves. That same year, Alaskans voted on another ballot initiative to ban aerial wolf hunting by a 53% majority. In 2004, then Governor Frank Murkowski reinstated aerial wolf hunting to private hunters. He opened up 60,000 square miles of Alaska for the flying cowboys. All you needed was a plane and a permit.

With all of this history, we should have been prepared to deal with a Palin Administration hell bent on killing wolves.

(snip)

Right before the 2006 Election, Alaskans for Wildlife submitted 57,000 signatures to get another aerial wolf hunting ban in place. Newly elected Governor Palin and the ADF&G issued even more wolf kill permits and put up a $150 bounty per wolf. A state judge ruled Palin exceeded her authority and the bounty was scrapped. At the end of the 2007 legislative session, Palin flooded the legislature with bills to ease up on wolf hunting restrictions, but the bills were held up in committee. In the spring of 2008, Palin tried to declare wildlife an “asset” of the State to make their management off limits to ballot initiatives. She covertly tried to tack a wolf hunting bill on to an animal cruelty bill, SB 273, introduced by Senator Bill Wielechowski. Pun intended: she got shot down.

Last month Alaskans voted once again on Aerial Predator Control. The intent of the ballot initiative was simple enough; to prohibit the shooting of wolves and grizzly bears from aircraft. Lieutenant Governor Sean Parnell, overseer of elections, did his part to insure the proposition language was confusing enough to guarantee failure -

(snip)

Parnell was dragged into court several times for misrepresenting the intent of the initiative on the ballot. Many Alaskans were confused by the ballot language. My neighbor is a retired state engineer. He is a bright man and a conservationist. He voted no despite being an outspoken opponent of aerial wolf killing. Had I not known to vote yes, I would have voted no too. Now, aerial predator control proponents can disingenuously claim that Alaskans favor killing wolves and bears from planes as evidenced by the 2008 vote on Ballot Prop 2.

Governor Palin did her part to defeat the initiative as well. She approved the use of public money and ordered the Alaska Department of Fish and Game to publish a 26-page full color pamphlet called “Understanding Intensive Management and Predator Control in Alaska.”

(snip)

In addition to the pamphlet and mailers, the state paid for Board of Game members to fly all over Alaska to “educate” the public on the benefits of predator control-again just before the election. This entire predator control program is about turning Alaska into a wild game farm. In response to the allegation that she signed off on a “propaganda campaign to justify the state’s barbaric wolf slaughter from the skies,” Palin said, “My understanding is this program was funded by the Legislature to factually explain game management practices to Alaskans, and I don’t have a problem with that.” The total bill for the “education” was $400,000. Nearly the same amount of money she vetoed for high school drop out prevention.

It’s shameful she spent almost half a million dollars on pamphlets to compensate for Alaska’s prohibition on Cialis. Hey, if you’ve been shooting wolves out of planes, and you have an erection lasting for more than four hours, check the Boone & Crocket stats, you may have a trophy!

In June of this year, the ADF&G broke their own predator control regulations with the slaughter of 14 wolf pups near Point Moeller. Under the ADF&G Wolf Control Regulations (5AAC 92.110(i)), “Denning, the killing of wolf young in the den, is prohibited.” On site at the scene of the crime were Deputy ADF&G Commissioner for Wildlife, Ken Taylor, and The Director of ADF&G’s Division of Wildlife Conservation, Doug Larsen. Why were suits from Juneau involved in a routine field operation? Why do we pay them salaries to enforce laws they are either unaware of, or choose to break? Perhaps they knew they were breaking their own law and were there to support the cover-up and clean up crew.

(snip)

Sarah Palin has been in a position to do the right thing for the wildlife of Alaska. Independent Alaskan Biologists have been begging for her ear. Faith based science is not science, yet it is what she has used in her policy making; mocking legitimate studies, and embracing big game hunters. The Rapture is not an environmental policy nor is it a game management policy.

(More at link)

........

This is the truth - and Sarah Palin will have to answer some day to the very God she profusely worships.

[Earth Bound Misfit]

22. Great find, thanks for posting!

Question- Who stands to profit most from aerial wolf slaughter?


From the author's "About" page:

About Shannyn Moore

Shannyn Moore. Born Alaskan. Patriot. Constitutionalist. Lover of Freedom. Giving hell to the establishment. Standing up to fascists and tyranny…both foreign and domestic. Radio. Active. Truth.

I don’t believe in accidents. My grandmother got me into radio. I was on my way to Virginia to her funeral. While on the plane met the owner of a local progressive station. He offered me a job. There were a lot of growing pains for both me and the station, and when I was fired, I knew I wasn’t done with radio. Progressive radio doesn’t have to do with what is on your business card, it has to do with who you are on the air and more importantly, who you are off the air. I don’t play me on the radio.

I have been on numerous international and national radio programs, and network television shows. A am also working on a radio series for APRN. (That is the Alaska Public Radio Network, not to be confused with “Alaska Progressive Radio Network.”)

For 11 weeks I provided Palinoscopy updates, M-F on” This is America with John Elliot” on Air America Radio. You can stream at http://www.jonelliottshow.com/.


I prefer “Thought Radio” to “Talk Radio” and can hardly wait to break out my Bonnie Bell LipSmacker and giddy up!

I think I'm in love!!!111!!:loveya:

[1776Forever]

26. If you were asking me from what Shannyn Moore & others say it's Big Game Hunters

Their big $$ spending in Alaska is why this is going on - just to make sure they can "find" their moose and caribou easier. Again we go back to the God of Republicans - Greed! :grr:

[Blue_In_AK]

31. Here's a photo of the fabulous Ms. Moore

from our "Hold Palin Accountable" rally in September.

[Earth Bound Misfit]

36. Thanks, Blue...

Now I remember seeing her on K. O. a while back...the Pastor Muthee (spelling?) thing.

[Blue_In_AK]

30. Thanks for bringing that one back up.

Shannyn's a great writer. (Incidentally, she's a native Alaskan, not a Native Alaskan, but in this case it doesn't matter.)

[Blaze Diem]

35. Great Read. Send your post to Ashley Judd / Defenders of Wildlife for Palin Rebuttal

If this is what it takes to get Palin in the spotlight, then we need someone to do a PSA for the natives of AK who have to choose between starving or freezing this winter, as their gov Palin admires herself in the mirror.

Call her out on human suffering in her own State.
Apparently Palin LOVES the spotlight enough to bite at this bait also.
Shed public light on her despicable governance.

[No Elephants]

25. An Alaskan hunter and trapper says Palin's desired legislation

goes too far. http://www.akwildlife.org/content/view/101/67/

[Bryn]

28. I am going to give more money to Defenders of Wildlife which I am a member of

You suck, dear Palin

[truebrit71]

29. There are no words to adaquately describe just how much I despise this woman...

..

[orleans]

32. fringe my ass! palin is a stupid fucking bitch. n/t

[Deja Q]

34. I was hoping for Judd Gregg, but okey dokey...

Nice photoshop of Palin + Tina Turner, I must say... :D


(I do side with Ms. Judd, of course...)

[Blaze Diem]

37. Contact Defenders of Wildlife with support forAshley Judd exposing Palin's bad policies.

Link to contact page, and Please include any info you think Ashley Judd should/could use to counterpoint Palin.
Help poke a hole in Palin's inflatable barracuda image.
Support Judd & Defenders of Wildlife.
Tks

http://actionfund.defenders.org/site/Survey?SURVEY_ID=3080&ACTION_REQUIRED=URI_ACTION_USER_REQUESTS

[GoddessOfGuinness]

38. Defenders of Wildlife has a form letter you can edit and send to Failin

https://secure.defenders.org/site/Advocacy?pagename=homepage&page=UserAction&id=1305&s_einterest=C4&JServSessionIdr006=v94poz8h92.app17a

And there's one for your concerned kids too:
http://www.eyeonpalin.org/take_action/kids.php