This site is built and maintained by volunteers, and is not the "official" PetPAC web site. (1)  
  The coalition behind AB 1634, the California Healthy Pets Act, are all volunteers, and take no payment for working on the bill. But that's not the case with the people behind PetPAC.

Where do donations to PetPAC go?

 
 
 
 

PetPAC likes to claim that they are a "grassroots" organization, which implies that the group is volunteer based and working out of passion instead of working for profit. But the well-meaning donors who send their hard-earned money to this group may not realize where it really goes.

PetPAC's leaders loudly clamor for donations to "fight for the rights of pet owners", but then quietly use those donations to pay themselves outrageous compensation. According to filings with the Secretary of State (4) the Chairman of PetPAC took over $67,000 from PetPAC just for work in the second part of 2007.



PetPAC's leaders have a history of using donor's money to pay themselves oversized paychecks. Another representative of PetPAC was paid a "management fee" of $300,000 by the PetPAC related group COPS in a previous year. (2)

Do PetPAC donors know where their money goes?

PetPAC's Chairman doubles as the Director of Governmental Affairs for COPS, the group that was called out by the Sacramento Bee in 2006 as one of the top (or bottom) 10 groups in the state for using their private commercially fundraised money on the charities they collect money to support. COPS was revealed to use just 15.3% of that money on actual charity. Is PetPAC destined for a similar path?(3)

According to quantcast.com, over half of PetPAC's web site visitors earn less than $30,000 per year. How would these donors feel if they knew where their money was really going?

  
 


PetPAC's web site reinforces a central role of the organization - gathering money.

But the site doesn't inform visitors about the large percentage of donations used to compensate the "grassroots" leaders of PetPAC.

The main page of the PetPAC site entices visitors with misinformation about universal spay and neuter, and pushes visitors repeatedly to send money.

Members who sign up to "learn more" receive emails with misleading talking points to use against universal spay and neuter, always concluded with further requests for funds.

  
 
 
  Donating to pay PetPAC's leaders oversized paychecks does not help our pets. Please learn more by reading the text of AB 1634, and then joining the thousands of responsible pet owners volunteering to provide a better future for California's pets through universal spay and neuter.
  
 
 
 

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1 - Although underground breeders, dog fighters, PetPAC, COPS and other anti-AB 1634 groups all share a common goal of defeating AB 1634, this in no way indicates the nature of their relationship, or that a relationship, formal or otherwise, exists between the groups.

This political parody site simulates design elements found on the site www.petpac.net and is protected under the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. The Supreme Court has held that parody is a valid form of protected speech when directed at public officials and public figures.

2 - "The COPS slate took in $871,000 from candidates and causes in 2000 and paid Moran a management fee of $300,000, above and beyond expenses for printing and mailing." -(Sacramento Bee, June 20, 2002.)

3 - "Telemarketers employed by COPS solicit advertising. But they also appeal to individuals for funds, saying the money will help support the survivors of slain peace officers and fund public-safety programs for children.

The following 10 California-based charities benefited the least from private commercial fundraisers they used in 2004. The fundraisers used by these charities raised $100,000 or more...

Charity: California Organization of Police and Sheriffs
City: Ontario
Fundraiser: Civic Development Group LLC
Money Raised: $4,342,287
Money to Charity: $663,057
Percent: 15.3%
Source: California attorney general"

(Sacramento Bee, January 27, 2006)

4 - Information downloaded from http://cal-access.ss.ca.gov/Lobbying/Employers/ in late March or early April, 2008.