Still smarting because
your candidate or cause didn’t win in the recent elections?
Perhaps this will make
your feel better. You probably didn’t lose as big as the Humane Society of the
United States.
HumaneWatch, which keeps
tabs on the anti-animal agriculture group, said HSUS’s lobbying arm, the Humane Society
Legislative Fund, lost on just about every race it worked on this fall.
Included were efforts to unseat pro-farmer congressmen Steve King of Iowa and
Scott DesJarlais of Tennessee and a bid to defeat Arizona Senate candidate Jeff
Flake.
What about ballot
initiatives, where HSUS previously had scored several key victories? Not this
time, said HumaneWatch. The radical animal rights group lost on a North Dakota
referendum to make broadly defined acts of animal cruelty a felony, while two of
its other ballot initiatives never got off the ground.
In one final affront,
HSUS Pennsylvania state director Sarah Speed lost in a bid for the state House
of Representatives from York County. “In all, HSUS and its legislative arm
spent bundles of money and came up empty,” HumaneWatch concluded.
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