Birds of feather voting against Bush together

[Kadie]

Birds of feather voting against Bush together

By JOAN LOWY, Scripps Howard News Service


Last Updated: October 18, 2004, 01:06:00 PM PDT


(SH) - They're not crowing just yet, but Birders United to Defeat Bush says the nation's birdwatchers could decide the presidential election if they'll flock to the polls to register their disapproval of the administration's avian policies.
Theodore Cross, 80, an avid birder in Princeton, N.J., hatched Birders United in August in response to Bush policies he says are detrimental to birds, including actions that would "cripple the Clean Water Act," remove federal protections from a third of the nation's wetlands that are critical to nesting birds and undermine the Endangered Species Act.

Spending nearly $100,000 of his own money, Cross has erected four billboards along heavily traveled Interstate 4 in central Florida between Tampa and Daytona Beach and two billboards near Miami urging birders to vote Bush out of office and to visit the group's Web site: www.birdersunitedtodefeatbush.com.

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Bush especially ruffled Cross' feathers last September when he nominated William J. Haynes II to a seat on the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. While an attorney with the Defense Department, Haynes argued that the military bombing of an island in the Marianas that's home to several rare bird species would be beneficial to birdwatchers because it would disperse the birds to more islands where more people could see them, Cross said.

"I was absolutely stunned that they would say bombing birds was good for birders," Cross said. "That's absurd."

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http://www.modbee.com/24hour/politics/story/1744820p-9579749c.html

[Kat45]

1. Wow! The chimp is harming birds too, not just people?!

I'll have to pass this page on to some bird-loving people that I know.