Working the Congress and creating strategic political pressure to solve problems.
FIRST LADY NANCY REAGAN
was one of the first
high profile figures
to cross paths with Pacheco...
while still in college,
he led a successful
high profile campaign to
convince the First Lady,
over her objections,
to announce she would not wear fur coats again, because of cruelty to animals -- after she made the mistake of wearing a $12,000 fur coat to the swearing in ceremony
of her husband, President Reagan.
FIRST LADY
BARBARA BUSH....
followed in the footsteps
of Nancy Reagan,
this time
making her announcement
before the Inauguration Day
ceremonies, and this time
with much less resistance.
The U.S. N.I.H. & U.S.D.A.
soon followed......
thee months after the
Nancy Reagan announcement,
Pacheco began working undercover
in a federally funded research facility
less than 10 miles from the White House,
and spearheaded a very successful high profile campaign to compel the
$13 billion per year U.S. National
Institutes of Health to, for the first
time in history, terminate a federal
research grant which was in it's
18th year, on the grounds of
cruelty to animals.
He then led the lobbying effort to
convince Congress to convince the
U.S. Department of Agriculture
to, for the first time in history,
shut down the laboratory based on violations of federal animal welfare laws.
All of these events were covered by virtually all major media outlets.
SECRETARY OF DEFENSE CASPAR WEINBERGER
was soon to follow with an action
unprecedented by any Secretary of Defense,
after Pacheco led a successful high profile campaign and lobbied Congress
to convince Secretary Weinberger
to personally order an immediate change in DOD policy with the permanent termination
of the military's long standing practice of
shooting -- at point blank range --
tethered live dogs and cats in violent wound experiments. After additional lobbying,
the Secretary further ordered
the immediate closure of the DOD's
Bethesda based Uniformed Services University
of the Health Sciences wound laboratory
all together -- just months after it was built --
and further mandated the full use of painkillers
for all other live animals shot
in other DOD wound laboratories.
Covered on the front page of the
Washington Post and extensively
by virtually all major media outlets.
H.H.S. SECRETARY
MARGARET HECKLER
followed with action
unprecedented by any H.H.S. Secretary, after Pacheco successfully lobbied Congress to apply political pressure on the H.H.S. to suspend an abusive primate-brain-scrambling laboratory by suspending targeted federal funding.
Covered by virtually all major media outlets.
Additional lobbying led to Secretary Heckler further agreeing to not only
change H.H.S. policy,
but to overturn orders
from the National Institutes of Health
and terminate the $15 million
brain scrambling experiment
which was in it's 12th year at the
Ivy League University of Pennsylvania.
When it comes to Budgets,
......the H.H.S.
......has the 3rd largest budget in the world,
......only the entire U.S. Federal Government
......and the entire Soviet Union,
......are larger.
The budget of the U.S. Defense Department is less.
AT N.E.A.V.S.: RESPONSIBLE FOR STRATEGY
AND THE BOTTOM LINE
For 10 years (1986-1996) Pacheco directed the congressional lobbying of this $8 million advocacy organization; responsible for hiring, evaluating,
motivating and directing the work of lobbyists
and all lobbying efforts, political media events,
legislative communications and political
strategy on a large number of political issues
such as convincing federal agencies to
end their long standing practice of requiring the use of live, fully conscious animals in extremely painful and ultimately fatal "Lethal Dose 50" tests.
AT P.E.T.A.:
REPONSIBLE FOR
STRATEGY AND THE BOTTOM LINE
For 20 years directed the congressional lobbying
efforts of this $16 million advocacy group;
responsible for hiring, evaluating, motivating
and directing the work of lobbyists,
and organizing political media events and
legislative campaigns covering a
very wide spectrum of political
issues and needs. (1981-2000)
TAIWAN
Lobbied the Taiwan government with actor Steven Seagal to successfully push through passage of the first and only law in Taiwan outlawing cruelty to animals.
U.S. HOUSE SCIENCE SUBCOMMITTEE
Very active in generating the 2000
oversight hearings by the
House Science Subcommittee on Energy and the Environment,
for the purpose of reducing the suffering of tens of millions of animals
in federally funded research.
TANGLING with
VICE PRESIDENT AL GORE
Fierce lobbying of Congress in 1999 to fight against an ill advised Clinton Administration campaign which was being led by Vice President Al Gore,
to change regulations of the Environmental Protection Agency governing the U.S. chemical industry.
The Vice President wanted thousand
of already tested and already approved chemicals to be re-tested, using
millions of live animals in very
painful, fatal, poisoning tests.
The lobbying went on for years,
and was ultimately successful.
AMENDING the
FEDERAL ANIMAL WELFARE ACT
Testifying before Congress
as the lead witness
in oversight hearings by the
House Subcommittee on Science,
Research and Technology
in support of federal legislation
intended to reduce the suffering
of approximately 100 million animals
used and killed in experiments annually
in the U.S., by amending the federal
Animal Welfare Act.
TERMINATING FEDERAL FUR SUBSIDIES
Spearheading the difficult passage
of amendments in the House and Senate,
ultimately signed by the President,
terminating multi-million dollar federal subsidies
to the fur industry -- on the grounds of cruelty.
These subsidies were in their 28th year.
The votes were covered by C-Span.
SUPPORTING
U.S. CONGRESSMAN TOM LANTOS
Successfully campaigned for the re-election
of political leaders such as Congressman
Tom Lantos (D-CA), co-founder of the Human Rights Caucus and founder of the Congressional
Animal Welfare Caucus. During the Congressman's first re-election campaign......the Congressman's staff estimated there were approximately 10,000
registered animal voters in his district.....
and brought Pacheco out to campaign full time
in the California District to get out the animal vote;
The Congressman went on to win the election
by 10,000 votes.
U.S. SENTAOR ROBERT SMITH
Raised money for and campaigned for pro-animal,
conservative hawk Senator Robert Smith (R-NH)
of the Senate Environmental Protection and
Armed Services Committees.
U.S. SENATOR ROBERT DOLE
Raised money for the Presidential Campaign of
Senate Majority Leader, pro-animal
Senator Bob Dole (R-KS).
Established a few Political Action Committees.
Contributed funds to, and worked on a number of
state and local election and re-election campaigns.
CONGRESSMAN CHARLIE WILSON
Father-in-law was one of the most powerful
members of Congress, Congressman Charlie Wilson (D-TX),
producer of "the largest military covert operation in history"
who rose to power under the tutorship of
House Speaker Tip O'Neill;
the centerpiece of a 60 Minutes special
in which the President of Afghanistan stated
Congressman Wilson was the # 1 reason
why the Afghan Army was able to deliver
an embarrassing
and crushing defeat to the invading
Russian Red Army,
leading to the fall of the Soviet Union.
TOM HANKS
Pacheco put this inside track to use for the benefit of the helpless. The Congressman and Pacheco's brother and mother were the only guests at the clandestine wedding of Pacheco and the Congressman's daughter.
In 2006 actor and producer Tom Hanks purchased the rights to the book "Charlie Wilson's War" and is making it into a movie in which Hanks will play Congressman Wilson.
Lobbying and Pressuring Federal Government Agencies
Has engineered and led numerous high profile, high impact,
national and international campaigns.
Campaigns against and sometimes alongside,
various federal, state and local government agencies for the ultimate purpose of stopping inhumane practices
and reducing the suffering of animals...
using any legal means necessary.
Federal entities such as the...
U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration....(performs painful, fatal drug tests on live animals)
U.S. Department of Justice....(is pressured by industry to pursue some animal activists)
U.S. Department of Defense....(kills millions of animals in painful experiments)
U.S. Department of Transportation....(used to allow painful fatal experiments on animals)
U.S. Department of the Interior....(allows the maiming and killing of millions of wild animals)
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency....(performs painful fatal experiments on live animals)
U.S. Department of Agriculture...(allows painful fatal experiments on millions of live animals, etc.)
U.S. Food and Drug Administration...(allows painful fatal experiments on millions of live animals)
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service...(promotes the maiming and killing of millions of wild animals)
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services...(sponsors painful fatal tests on millions of animals)
National Park Service...(allows hunting and trapping in National Parks, etc.)
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms....(performs painful, fatal tests on animals)
Smithsonian Institution...(owns the National Zoo where experiments on animals are performed)
National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke....(performs painful animal tests)
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration....(authorize painful animal tests)
National Science Foundation....(funds many painful animal experiments)
National Institutes of Health......(performs painful animal experiments)
National Aeronautics and Space Administration...(performed painful animal experiments)
International Trade Commission....(regulates inhumane trapping and killing of wildlife)
Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service.....(charged by Congress with enforcing the AWA)
Federal Bureau of Investigations....(are pressured by corporations to pursue some activists)
Federal Trade Commission...(regulates the businesses responsible for most animal suffering)
European Union...(not a U.S. agency, regulates inhumane practices inflicted on millions of animals)
of the legislation, as well as the signatures of 55 U.S. Senators, ranging from the liberal Senator Ted Kennedy to the conservative Senator Jesse Helms.
This legislation was
actively and aggressively opposed
and lobbied against
by the national biomedical industry,
including the American Medical Association,
the Association of American Medical Colleges,
the U.S. National Institutes of Health,
the U.S. Department of Agriculture,
the American Psychological Association,
and many, many more.
Pacheco played a leadership role in numerous congressional,
administration and agency actions such as:
KENNEDY CENTER
Has held many media and lobbying events in numerous venues from the Kennedy Center to the National Press Club to the National Democratic Club, and in House and Senate hearing rooms, etc.
Lobbying events such as.......
MICHAEL JACKSON'S CHIMPANZEE BUBBLES
Produced popular, standing room only media-generating-lobbying events such as
flying in the California based singer Michael Jackson's pet chimpanzee Bubbles,
with trainer in tow, to host black tie events on Capital Hill,
at the Ritz Carlton, etc.,
.....arranged for Bubbles visit members of congress personally
and bring public attention to pending animal protection legislation.
