Animals 24-7
By Merritt Clifton
OKLAHOMA CITY––Showing Animals Respect & Kindness, of Chicago, better known as SHARK, on September 22, 2014 posted to web sites undercover video of senior Oklahoma U.S. Senator James Inhofe, 79, hosting a fundraising pigeon shoot 17 days earlier at the Quartz Mountain Lodge in Lone Wolf, Oklahoma.
Inhofe was himself videotaped in the act of shooting at pigeons. Other participants were shown throwing banded captive-raised pigeons into the air to be shot, kicking wounded birds, and throwing them up to be shot again.
The event, billed as Inhofe’s ninth annual “pigeon hunt,” was to benefit “Friends of Jim Inhofe and the Fund For A Conservative Future.”
The Oklahoma City television station KFOR posted links to the eight-minute SHARK video, with coverage by staff reporter Sarah Stewart, at the top of the 10 p.m. news o n September 22. Furious messages from constituents were prominent on Inhofe’s Facebook pages by midnight.
