Posted on 08/28/2011 8:46:25 AM PDT by george76
The Missouri Farm Bureau opposes an initiative petition being circulated to require a three-fourths vote of the Missouri legislature to change an initiative statute. The initiative petition, known as “Your Vote Counts,” is backed by the Humane Society of the United States, the organization that successfully initiated the so-called puppy mill measure in November.
“If we adopt the position of HSUS, the initiative petition will have no ability to correct a mistake and we think that would be a mistake,” said Blake Hurst, president of the Missouri Farm Bureau.
The HSUS is using vast financial resources to get on the ballot and gain voter support by flooding the air waves with advertising, which Hurst calls legislation by thirty-second commercials.
“We think it gives too much influence to outside interests, people outside the state who can put tens of millions of dollars into advertising in favor of a petition drive and we think it’ll hand over the keys to the state of Missouri to whoever’s got enough money to pay for a petition drive,” said Hurst, “and we think that’s a bad idea.”
(Excerpt) Read more at brownfieldagnews.com ...
HSUS’s senior management includes a former spokesman for the Animal Liberation Front (ALF), a criminal group designated as “terrorists” by the FBI
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