Hillary has long spoken out about the connection between animal poaching and terrorist funding. She has teamed up with John Kasich to lobby Congress for increased funding to fight poaching and animal parts trafficking. Read their op-ed in the Washington Post.
Opinion | Hillary Clinton and John Kasich: We cannot cede ground on animal poaching
By Hillary Clinton and John Kasich February 1 at 5:32 PM
Activists demonstrate against rhinoceros poaching outside the Chinese embassy in Pretoria, South Africa, in March 2012. (© Reuters/REUTERS)Hillary Clinton, a Democrat, was U.S. secretary of state from 2009 to 2013. John Kasich, a Republican, was governor of Ohio from 2011 to 2019. Voters sent a message in November by splitting government control between Democrats and Republicans: They want people of different backgrounds to come together and solve our problems. This applies to big-ticket items and to matters that may not find their way onto the front page.
Among the issues on which we find common ground: the illegal wildlife trade.
The Illegal Wildlife Conference in London in October brought together conservationists and government leaders from across the globe, many representing countries where the illegal killing, trafficking and sale of wildlife parts taken from species large and small — including elephants, jaguars, rhinos, pangolins, birds and turtles — has reached crisis proportions. They left that conference more engaged than ever, the latest example of a broad consensus for global action.
We come from different parties, but we both agree that we cannot remain on the sidelines in this fight. Animal poaching — driven by criminal syndicates every bit as ruthless as those that traffic in arms, drugs and humans — corrupts local and national institutions that seek to manage natural resources, imperiling good governance and the rule of law. It enables the emergence and spread of diseases from wildlife to humans and livestock and directly challenges the economic, social and environmental pillars embedded in the United Nations’ sustainable development goals.
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John Dingell has entered hospice care. When I lived in Michigan in the early eighties, he was my congressman. My dad’s first SS check was more than a month overdue following his retirement after decades of work. Nothing seemed to loosen this log jam. The bureaucracy was winning and no one much cared. I called Dingell’s local office and was immediately informed this was totally unacceptable. After taking all my dad’s info and my phone #, I was assured someone would soon be in touch. Within hours, the local SS district office called to tell me that the payment center was mailing the check. It arrived within days. When people complain about members of Congress serving for decades, I always think of this story and how some members of Congress deserve to serve for decades. Btw, I called the congressman’s office to thank them for the quick service. Their response was basically, just doing our job, ma’am. Much love to John and Debbie Dingell and family.
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Sorry to hear this, but thank you for your story. It’s true that longtime representatives often perform services like this quickly and quietly because they know the contacts. It’s a reminder that term limits might not be in everyone’s best interests.
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And his anti-Trump wit on Twitter the past couple of years has given me life!
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And his anti-Trump wit on Twitter the past couple of years has given me life!
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