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A lot has been written about John McCain’s pick for Vice President, but here are a few things you might not know:

As governor of Alaska, Sarah Palin proposed paying a $150 bounty for the severed left foreleg of each dead wolf. She has championed aerial gunning of wolves and bears and approved a $400,000 state-funded campaign to promote this awful practice. Learn more about Palin’s record online at: http://actionfund.defenders.org/palinvideo

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  1. Defenders of Wildlife Asks Judge to Shut Down Palin's Wolf Bounty ...
    Defenders of Wildlife Asks Judge to Shut Down Palin's Wolf Bounty Program ... the Alaska Superior Court to shut down Governor Palin's $150-per-wolf bounty ...
    www.defenders.org/newsroom/press_releases.../03_27_2007_judge_asked_to_shut_down_wolf_bounty_program.php - 54k - Cached - Similar pages - Note this
  2. adn.com | wildlife : State puts a bounty on wolves
    State puts a bounty on wolves. $150 EACH: The official kill program is far behind ... The Palin administration is anteing up cash because the number of wolf ...
    dwb.adn.com/news/alaska/wildlife/story/8726730p-8628810c.html - 60k - Cached - Similar pages - Note this
  3. Sarah Palin, predator control, shooting wolves | Salon
    Sep 8, 2008 ... Palin offered the $150 bounty for wolf paws in 2007 after efforts to kill wolves from airplanes that season were, in her view, ...
    www.salon.com/env/feature/2008/09/08/sarah_palin_wolves/ - Similar pages - Note this
  4. Palin's $150 Wolf Paws | BuzzFlash.org
    Palin's $150 Wolf Paws. Submitted by meg on Thu, 09/11/2008 - 7:50am. ... wildlife population issues -- to her plan to turn sportsmen into bounty hunters, ...
    www.buzzflash.com/articles/analysis/450 - 44k - Cached - Similar pages - Note this
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Joan Brunwasser is a co-founder of Citizens for Election Reform (CER) which since 2005 existed for the sole purpose of raising the public awareness of the critical need for election reform. Our goal: to restore fair, accurate, transparent, secure elections where votes are cast in private and counted in public. Because the problems with electronic (computerized) voting systems include a lack of (more...)
 

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