LAST CHANCE TO END HORSE SLAUGHTER IN THE US!

[Solitaire]

cross posted:

As you surely already know, S. 1915 –the sister bill of HR 503- is waiting to be considered on the Senate floor.

While our bill awaits to be called for a vote, it has been reported that pro-slaughter pressure on legislators has greatly increased in an attempt to wane our ranks of supporters in the Senate and defeat the bill, which can be fatal due to the tight Senate schedule, making it vital to counter this pro-slaughter build-up with a flood of calls and faxes in support of the bill and urging Senators to bring it up for a vote as demanded by a vast majority of the American people.

As the current Congress draws to a close, the situation becomes even more critical. Next Tuesday, December 5th, Congress will reconvene from the Thanksgiving recess for a brief two-weeks period of legislative activity before the current legislature ends; this small window is our last chance to pass the bill. If HR 503/S.1915 is not passed before Congress adjourns it will die and we will have to start all over from zero next year, dooming hundred of thousands of American horses to a cruel death and horrible, needless suffering at the three, foreign-owned horse slaughter plants.

To counter the pro-slaughter attempts to defeat our bill and urge Senators to bring it up for consideration immediately, the HSUS has organized an Special National Call-In Day for next Tuesday, December 5th, in which all Americans are urged to contact their Senators asking them to cosponsor and vote for S. 1915.

In order to achieve this goal and provide support to next Tuesday’s National Call-In Day campaign we have organized a special calling and faxing effort for tomorrow. In this special calling and faxing effort we should call and fax as many Senators as we can, putting emphasis on those Senators who voted for the Ensign-Byrd Amendment last year, your own two US Senators and especially on the Majority Leader, Sen. Bill Frist, since the decision to call the bill for a vote relies on him.

Next Tuesday, the 5th, please call and fax as many Senators as you can to their DC offices asking them to cosponsor and vote for S. 1915 and keep calling and faxing during the whole day. Also, please call and fax Sen. Bill Frist, even if you are not a constituent, asking him to both cosponsor and bring it up for a vote on the Senate floor.

In addition, please forward this alert to all yours contacts (family, friends, co-workers, etc…) and ask them to do the same.

It is extremely important that as many people as possible contact Senators in support of S.1915 in order to counter the lies and the pressure of the pro-slaughter forces and their expensive lobbyists and bring it up for consideration on the Senate floor. Remember that this is our last chance to save horses from slaughter; if HR 503/S.1915 is not passed before Congress adjourns we will have to start all over from zero next year and hundred of thousands of horses will pay the price of our defeat with their lives. Failure is not an option. Please, be sure to share this alert with everybody you know and ask them to take part on this campaign.

Below is a phone and fax directory of the US Senate, showing how they voted on the Ensign-Byrd Amendment. You can download a copy of directory on Word format (which includes active links where you can find out district offices contact info) from the Habitat for Horses website:

http://www.habitatforhorses.org/joincampaigns/docs/109senators_Ensign-Byrd_vote.doc

To locate your Senators’ district contact info click on their name on the document from the link above or go to http://www.visi.com/juan/congress/index.html

You can find more information on horse slaughter and the bills to ban it as well as facts and talking points on its support here:

http://www.horse-protection.org
http://www.saplonline.org/horses.htm
http://www.hsus.org/web-files/PDF/National-Call-In-Day-Flier.pdf (HSUS National Call-In Day Flyer)

If you have any questions please feel free to contact us at [e-mail] or post them on the board.

Thank you.

Daniel