AR-News: LA Times- Animal Rights-- they're not just for liberal tree huggers anymore

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Copyright 2004 The Times Mirror Company; Los Angeles
Times
All Rights Reserved 
Los Angeles Times

March 29, 2004 Monday 
Home Edition

SECTION: CALIFORNIA; Metro; Metro Desk; Part B; Pg. 2

HEADLINE: INSIDE POLITICS; 
Whistleblower Audits Turn Up Waste, Fraud, Abuses

BYLINE: Patt Morrison, Times Staff Writer

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Humane Society Lauds 2 GOP Congressmen
Animal rights  -- they're not just for liberal
tree-huggers any more.

At the 18th annual Genesis Awards dinner, sponsored by
the Humane Society of the United States' Hollywood
office, a pair of Republican congressmen got a huge
ovation for their work on behalf of critters.

Tippi Hedren, the actress who now runs an animal
sanctuary in Acton, applauded Elton Gallegly of Simi
Valley and Buck McKeon of Santa Clarita for sponsoring
and shepherding through Congress last year's Captive
Wildlife Safety Act, which bans interstate and foreign
commerce of big exotic cats as pets.

In years past, McKeon, who was Santa Clarita's first
mayor before he went to Congress, has labored to
preserve open space and natural corridors for wildlife
-- although his collection of cowboy boots made of
ostrich, crocodile, anteater and other skins might
earn him demerits.

And Gallegly has championed bear legislation, from
banning the trade in bear gallbladders -- an Asian
belief in using the gallbladders medicinally resulted
in the slaughter of thousands -- to enacting a ban on
animal "crush videos" in which mice and other animals
are trampled, usually by women in high heels. Mice 1,
Manolos 0.

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