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I have been sending weekly sets of "questions" to every member of the Ag Committee, I took the Commissioner of Agriculture off the list since Norma is his answering machine now instead of doing the job she was hired to do), I added the Attorney General to the list last week. I have gathered all kinds of information that has been available for years about Norma's complete disregard for livestock of any kind especially horses and sent that on it's way again for I think it is the 5th or 6th time. I am coming at this from an enforcement point of view and trying to get anyone to respond to that, I haven't had a single taker. I find that rather odd. In 2004 an agent was allowed to resign after complaint was filed that he didn't respond to a complaint, animals that were alive when the complaint was made later died. I am asking what is the difference between that agent failing to respond to a complaint and the Director failing to asign an agent to respond to a complaint? Other than the director of AWP being higher up the food chain I must be missing the difference. Like Maddy said, I am reloading too!
HEY! WHERE DID EVERYONE GO? HAVE I MISSED THE NEWS THAT THIS PROBLEM HAS BEEN SOLVED? Please do not sit back and rest now...just because things LOOK a little better right now, does not mean we are DONE. The more quiet we are, the easier it will be for FPF and AWP to go back to business as usual.
Consider this...if we all go back to our comfortable little routines now, what have we accomplished? Truthfully, we have only created a small speedbump for the state to deal with. As for FPF, because of all the media coverage, PERHAPS THAT SERVED AS FREE ADVERTISING for them!
Have you continued to make phone calls or send e-mails? I have - I hit DA Fowle and Gov. Baldacci's offices again yesterday, and talked with Rep. Bruce Bickford. WHAT HAVE YOU DONE...PLEASE TELL US HERE SO WE CAN GET MOTIVATED AGAIN!
It's your decision. Just remember that you are able to make that choice for yourself...these animals can not do that.
Of course everything looks great now, Everet. Because they took all the dying horses away! If you are defending them, then you obviously didn't see the barely-standing, near-death's-door horses that we all saw!
Go to the farm and see for yourself - then judge for yourself. I did.
My heart bleeds for these animals. I wish I had a facility to bring them all home.