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From: SharkIntl@aol.com
To: Mary S. Nash
Sent: Friday, April 23, 2004 12:19 PM
Subject: Legislative Horse Alert

Dear Friends,

The effort to ban the slaughter of horses for human consumption shifts to the Illinois Senate!

Please contact the following members of the Executive Committee, and urge them to support the legislation to ban horse slaughter in Illinois if and when it comes before them.  Ask them how they will vote if given the opportunity and why.  Also, if you are one of the following Senators' constituents, please try to set up an appointment with him/her to discuss this issue, and make sure they know that you are a registered voter.  Lastly, urge them to visit www.HorseKillers.com to see for themselves the clear difference between cruel horse slaughter and humane euthanasia.

     Party       Senator             Springfield Phone       Fax

Chairperson:  Ira I. Silverstein       (217) 782-5500    (217) 782-4885
D Vice-Chairperson :  Debbie DeFrancesco Halvorson
D Member:  James A. DeLeo       (217) 782-1035    (217) 558-1042
D Member:  Miguel del Valle        (217) 782-5652    (217) 782-4450
D Member:  Vince Demuzio         (217) 782-8206    (217) 558-1042
D Member:  Emil Jones, Jr.         (217) 782-2728    (217) 782-3242
D Member:  George P. Shadid     (217) 782-8250    (217) 782-2331
D Member:  Louis S. Viverito       (217) 782-0054    (217) 782-0715
D Minority Spokesperson:  Peter J. Roskam   (217) 782-8022    (217) 782-8022
R Member:  J. Bradley Burzynski (217) 782-1977   (217) 782-9586   Don't worry too much about Burzynski - he's dead set against the bill.
R Member:  Edward Petka           (217) 782-0422    (217) 782-7818
R Member:  Todd Sieben             (217) 782-0180    (217) 782-4885
R Member:  Frank C. Watson      (217) 782-5755    (217) 782-7818

Here is the link to their contact information:

http://www.legis.state.il.us/senate/committees/members.asp?CommitteeID=59

For their e-mail addresses, please click (or search) on the following link.

http://www.barntowire.com/stophorseslaughter-Illinois-sens.html

NOTE:  Senate President Emil Jones is on this committee.  Let's make sure that he knows that the public does not want horses slaughtered!

Please forward on any responses you receive - thanks!  

For the Horses,

Jodie Wiederkehr
SHARK
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