SARAH PALIN - PALIN FIRES BACK AT JUDD OVER HUNTING ATTACK

PALIN FIRES BACK AT JUDD OVER HUNTING ATTACK

Alaska Governor SARAH PALIN has taken aim at actress ASHLEY JUDD over the star's new anti-hunting ad campaign. The Double Jeopardy star fired off at Palin, who last year (08) ran as a U.S. Vice-President candidate, in a recent Defenders of Wildlife Action Fund, accusing the politician of planning to expand the aerial hunting of wolves in her native state.
But Palin insists Judd and bosses at the charity group are misguided.
In a written statement, the Governor calls Judd's campaign video, which hit the Internet over the weekend (31Jan09), a "fundraising ploy".
In the new ad, Judd says, "When Sarah Palin came on the national scene last summer, few knew that she promotes the brutal aerial killing of wolves. Now, back in Alaska, Palin is again casting aside science and championing the slaughter of wildlife."
But, in the statement posted on the state of Alaska website, Palin responds, "The ad campaign by this extreme fringe group, as Alaskans have witnessed over the last several years, distorts the facts about Alaska’s wildlife management programs.
"Alaskans depend on wildlife for food and cultural practices which can’t be sustained when predators are allowed to decimate moose and caribou populations. Our predator control programs are scientific and successful at protecting vulnerable wildlife.
"Shame on the Defenders of Wildlife for twisting the truth in an effort to raise funds from innocent and hard-pressed Americans struggling with these rough economic times."