| From | Wayne Pacelle <[email protected]> |
| Subject | EATS Act booster defeated! We help elect EATS opponent in his place |
| Date | December 4, 2024 5:38 PM |
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Dear friend,
Elections matter. And, most assuredly, Animal Wellness Action’s election work matters.
Our active campaigning in the most hotly contested congressional races in this November 2024 election was strategic and high-impact.
And we have breaking news on this front.
Last night, Adam Gray declared victory in California’s 13th congressional district over incumbent Rep. John Duarte in the last U.S. House race called. Gray prevailed in a nailbiter, winning by 187 votes out of 210,921 cast.
Defeating Duarte and helping to elect Gray was Animal Wellness Action’s top electoral priority.
During his single term in the U.S. House, representing a district spanning five Central Valley counties, Duarte refused to cosponsor a single animal welfare bill. He wouldn’t even cosponsor the FIGHT Act to crack down on illegal animal fighting, or the SAFE Act, which seeks to ban horse slaughter — a practice California outlawed by ballot initiative 26 years ago! He voted to remove federal protections for wolves and to stop the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service from regulating the use of toxic lead ammunition in sport hunting on national wildlife refuges.
But most distressing, Duarte had been working to overturn California’s Prop 12 by signing onto the EATS Act, H.R. 4417. He was working to overturn a recent ballot initiative that passed in a landslide! In his own state! Even though California farmers had already invested hundreds of millions of dollars in more humane housing systems for laying hens!
Prop 12 stipulated that eggs, pork, and veal sold in California must come from farms, whether in state or out of state, that give animals at least enough room to stand up, lie down, and turn around.
Smithfield Foods, the pork production giant owned by the Chinese Communist Party, has been working hand-in-hand with the National Pork Producers Council (NPPC) to overturn the law after California voters approved it in a landslide in November 2018.
The NPPC, on behalf of Smithfield and its other factory farm operators, challenged Prop 12 in the U.S. Supreme Court. And last year, the conservative court upheld California’s law as a constitutional exercise of state authority.
But the NPPC and its allies in Congress, including Duarte, weren’t giving up. They cooked up the EATS Act to overturn Prop 12 and other state laws like it.
Well, we stopped EATS from passing in this Congress. But we know the battle will begin anew next year.
But with Duarte defeated, in part because of our campaign highlighting his support of overturning an American election and undercutting farmers and voters in his district, the Las Vegas oddsmakers must be changing their bets on EATS passing in the 119th Congress.
In the only competitive House race where EATS was an issue, an EATS Act proponent went down to defeat. And in his place rises an EATS Act opponent. In all likelihood, Gray will replace Duarte on the House Agriculture Committee.
Representative-elect Gray, who is as pro-farmer as they come, called EATS “a misguided attempt funded by the pork industry and a Chinese multi-national corporation to take away the rights of California voters to set standards for the food they eat.”
“Last year, when the Supreme Court [[link removed]] upheld the rights of California voters — and voters in states across America — to establish their own food standards at the ballot box, major pork producers in Iowa, Texas, and Beijing became infuriated,” Gray announced during the campaign. “Instead of investing in better hog barns, they spent millions to sponsor legislation to remove voters from having any say in how food is produced. The EATS Act is designed to negate Prop 12 and any laws like it. [[link removed]] ”
We amplified Gray’s arguments. Specifically, we reached out to tens of thousands of animal-welfare donors in California’s 13th district and put our hard-hitting TV advertisement in front of them over and over again. Our ad, which highlights how Duarte favored a factory farming conglomerate owned by the Chinese Communist Party over American farmers and voters, was decisive in swinging the election to Duarte. See our anti-Duarte ad here [[link removed]] .
Seven Independent Expenditure Campaigns Lead to Wins for Animal Wellness Action
While we backed a Democrat in the 13th district who won his race, we also backed a Republican opponent of EATS in the neighboring 22nd district, and he won, too. There, Rep. David Valadao was re-elected in a district with a sizeable Democratic voter registration advantage.
A farmer, Valadao co-led a letter by a group of 16 Republicans opposing the EATS Act. This summer, he also worked to add language to the Ag-FDA appropriations bill directing the Food and Drug Administration to implement the FDA Modernization Act 2.0. That’s the kind of work that earns our active support. See the Valadao ad here [[link removed]] .
And there’s more.
We helped defeat two other incumbent lawmakers who refused to cosponsor the FIGHT Act. Reps. Brandon Williams, R-N.Y.-22, and Michelle Steel, R-Calif.-45, lost to two pro-animal lawmakers after Animal Wellness Action ads showed their apathetic response to the urgently needed FIGHT Act. See our anti-Williams ad here [[link removed]] and our anti-Steel ad here [[link removed]] .
At the same time, we also helped re-elect the leading animal welfare lawmakers in the U.S. House so they can continue their life-saving work for animals.
* Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick, R-Pa.-1 — author of the Kangaroo Protection Act and the Puppy Protection Act — was re-elected in his swing seat in the Philadelphia suburbs. See our ad here [[link removed]] .
* Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C.-1 — author of the MINKS Are Superspreaders Act and the Snowmobiles Aren’t Weapons Act, and the lead Republican cosponsor of the ADD SOY Act — was re-elected to a third term. See the ad here [[link removed]] .
* Rep. Don Davis, D-N.C.-1, in one of the toughest races in the nation, was re-elected to a second term, with Animal Wellness Action highlighting his leadership on a range of animal welfare reforms. Davis won by just 6,304 out of 376,305 votes cast. See the ad here [[link removed]] .
If we want policies enacted to help animals, we have to have lawmakers in office who care about animal protection. It’s that simple.
With your support, in our November national election, we ousted three anti-animal lawmakers. That’s a remarkable set of outcomes, and we won in the two closest races for Congress — with Gray winning California’s 13th district by just 187 votes and Derek Tran winning California’s 45th district by just 653 votes.
ANIMAL WELLNESS PODCAST: Listen here [[link removed]] to Wayne Pacelle talk about these races, nominees for President Trump’s administration, and the impact of the Biden White House on animal issues.
We don’t favor lawmakers based on their party affiliation. We call balls and strikes, favoring candidates based only on their work for animals.
That’s the formula for animal protection success. And it’s our belief that strategic, high-impact campaigning is the necessary precursor to policy successes for animal protection.
Now with this phase of political work concluded, we turn immediately to the policy work. And that’s where we need your help.
Please give generously today, and remember that your support is shaping a friendlier, more humane Congress in the United States. [[link removed]]
DONATE NOW [[link removed]]
For the animals,
Wayne Pacelle [[link removed]] Wayne Pacelle
President
Animal Wellness Action
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If you would like to manage your subscription or contribution history, please log into your self-service portal here. [[link removed]]
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Dear friend,
Elections matter. And, most assuredly, Animal Wellness Action’s election work matters.
Our active campaigning in the most hotly contested congressional races in this November 2024 election was strategic and high-impact.
And we have breaking news on this front.
Last night, Adam Gray declared victory in California’s 13th congressional district over incumbent Rep. John Duarte in the last U.S. House race called. Gray prevailed in a nailbiter, winning by 187 votes out of 210,921 cast.
Defeating Duarte and helping to elect Gray was Animal Wellness Action’s top electoral priority.
During his single term in the U.S. House, representing a district spanning five Central Valley counties, Duarte refused to cosponsor a single animal welfare bill. He wouldn’t even cosponsor the FIGHT Act to crack down on illegal animal fighting, or the SAFE Act, which seeks to ban horse slaughter — a practice California outlawed by ballot initiative 26 years ago! He voted to remove federal protections for wolves and to stop the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service from regulating the use of toxic lead ammunition in sport hunting on national wildlife refuges.
But most distressing, Duarte had been working to overturn California’s Prop 12 by signing onto the EATS Act, H.R. 4417. He was working to overturn a recent ballot initiative that passed in a landslide! In his own state! Even though California farmers had already invested hundreds of millions of dollars in more humane housing systems for laying hens!
Prop 12 stipulated that eggs, pork, and veal sold in California must come from farms, whether in state or out of state, that give animals at least enough room to stand up, lie down, and turn around.
Smithfield Foods, the pork production giant owned by the Chinese Communist Party, has been working hand-in-hand with the National Pork Producers Council (NPPC) to overturn the law after California voters approved it in a landslide in November 2018.
The NPPC, on behalf of Smithfield and its other factory farm operators, challenged Prop 12 in the U.S. Supreme Court. And last year, the conservative court upheld California’s law as a constitutional exercise of state authority.
But the NPPC and its allies in Congress, including Duarte, weren’t giving up. They cooked up the EATS Act to overturn Prop 12 and other state laws like it.
Well, we stopped EATS from passing in this Congress. But we know the battle will begin anew next year.
But with Duarte defeated, in part because of our campaign highlighting his support of overturning an American election and undercutting farmers and voters in his district, the Las Vegas oddsmakers must be changing their bets on EATS passing in the 119th Congress.
In the only competitive House race where EATS was an issue, an EATS Act proponent went down to defeat. And in his place rises an EATS Act opponent. In all likelihood, Gray will replace Duarte on the House Agriculture Committee.
Representative-elect Gray, who is as pro-farmer as they come, called EATS “a misguided attempt funded by the pork industry and a Chinese multi-national corporation to take away the rights of California voters to set standards for the food they eat.”
“Last year, when the Supreme Court [[link removed]] upheld the rights of California voters — and voters in states across America — to establish their own food standards at the ballot box, major pork producers in Iowa, Texas, and Beijing became infuriated,” Gray announced during the campaign. “Instead of investing in better hog barns, they spent millions to sponsor legislation to remove voters from having any say in how food is produced. The EATS Act is designed to negate Prop 12 and any laws like it. [[link removed]] ”
We amplified Gray’s arguments. Specifically, we reached out to tens of thousands of animal-welfare donors in California’s 13th district and put our hard-hitting TV advertisement in front of them over and over again. Our ad, which highlights how Duarte favored a factory farming conglomerate owned by the Chinese Communist Party over American farmers and voters, was decisive in swinging the election to Duarte. See our anti-Duarte ad here [[link removed]] .
Seven Independent Expenditure Campaigns Lead to Wins for Animal Wellness Action
While we backed a Democrat in the 13th district who won his race, we also backed a Republican opponent of EATS in the neighboring 22nd district, and he won, too. There, Rep. David Valadao was re-elected in a district with a sizeable Democratic voter registration advantage.
A farmer, Valadao co-led a letter by a group of 16 Republicans opposing the EATS Act. This summer, he also worked to add language to the Ag-FDA appropriations bill directing the Food and Drug Administration to implement the FDA Modernization Act 2.0. That’s the kind of work that earns our active support. See the Valadao ad here [[link removed]] .
And there’s more.
We helped defeat two other incumbent lawmakers who refused to cosponsor the FIGHT Act. Reps. Brandon Williams, R-N.Y.-22, and Michelle Steel, R-Calif.-45, lost to two pro-animal lawmakers after Animal Wellness Action ads showed their apathetic response to the urgently needed FIGHT Act. See our anti-Williams ad here [[link removed]] and our anti-Steel ad here [[link removed]] .
At the same time, we also helped re-elect the leading animal welfare lawmakers in the U.S. House so they can continue their life-saving work for animals.
* Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick, R-Pa.-1 — author of the Kangaroo Protection Act and the Puppy Protection Act — was re-elected in his swing seat in the Philadelphia suburbs. See our ad here [[link removed]] .
* Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C.-1 — author of the MINKS Are Superspreaders Act and the Snowmobiles Aren’t Weapons Act, and the lead Republican cosponsor of the ADD SOY Act — was re-elected to a third term. See the ad here [[link removed]] .
* Rep. Don Davis, D-N.C.-1, in one of the toughest races in the nation, was re-elected to a second term, with Animal Wellness Action highlighting his leadership on a range of animal welfare reforms. Davis won by just 6,304 out of 376,305 votes cast. See the ad here [[link removed]] .
If we want policies enacted to help animals, we have to have lawmakers in office who care about animal protection. It’s that simple.
With your support, in our November national election, we ousted three anti-animal lawmakers. That’s a remarkable set of outcomes, and we won in the two closest races for Congress — with Gray winning California’s 13th district by just 187 votes and Derek Tran winning California’s 45th district by just 653 votes.
ANIMAL WELLNESS PODCAST: Listen here [[link removed]] to Wayne Pacelle talk about these races, nominees for President Trump’s administration, and the impact of the Biden White House on animal issues.
We don’t favor lawmakers based on their party affiliation. We call balls and strikes, favoring candidates based only on their work for animals.
That’s the formula for animal protection success. And it’s our belief that strategic, high-impact campaigning is the necessary precursor to policy successes for animal protection.
Now with this phase of political work concluded, we turn immediately to the policy work. And that’s where we need your help.
Please give generously today, and remember that your support is shaping a friendlier, more humane Congress in the United States. [[link removed]]
DONATE NOW [[link removed]]
For the animals,
Wayne Pacelle [[link removed]] Wayne Pacelle
President
Animal Wellness Action
[[link removed]] DONATE NOW [[link removed]]
[[link removed]] WEBSITE [[link removed]]
[link removed] [[link removed]] [link removed] [[link removed]] [link removed] [[link removed]]
Animal Wellness Action | 611 Pennsylvania Ave SE #136 | Washington, DC 20003
If you would like to manage your subscription or contribution history, please log into your self-service portal here. [[link removed]]
If you need to you can unsubscribe here: unsubscribe: [link removed]
You can also click here to donate [[link removed]] .
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