Hey Legislators…Call Louise Simmons Back!
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- November
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Call them the Barnum & Bailey Board of Legislators…Whatta buncha clowns! And here I thought I was bad about getting back to people!
Louise Simmons, an animal rights activist, says she’s been desperately trying to get through to the board’s legislation committee to talk about a proposal to regulate animal circus acts and no one has bothered to get back to her. She’s either e-mailed or phoned them no fewer than nine times…and nada. Nothing. Zip.
“I am at the end of my tether with that bunch on the 8th floor.” Simmons writes. “Who the heck do they think they are just ignoring the citizens of Westchester?”
The aim of her “small group” is to push through a law to ban wild an exotic animal acts in Westchester County. Every year, the Hanneford Circus comes to the Westchester County Center and it usually inspires protests from activists who believe the performing animals are treated inhumanely.
“We say bring the circus, leave the wild animals behind!” says Simmons, who has been trying to get through to Legislator Bill Burton, D-Ossining, among other board members. “No one has had the common decency to even reply to me.”
OK, they’re on notice. The test now is see how long it takes them to answer this constituent’s concerns.
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on Tuesday, November 18th, 2008 at 4:00 pm by Phil Reisman.
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Phil Reisman is a veteran journalist and native of Westchester County. He began his career in 1977 as the head copy boy of a startup New York City newspaper that quickly went belly up. Reisman was not to blame for the newspaper's failure, or so he claims.
It is nice to see that someone is taking the time and effort to be a voice for our four legged friends. Sadly they are not evolved enough to ask their keepers to let them behave in a way that God intended them to behave.Instead, these animals endure cruelty and suffering, and what for??? A new cancer cure, or treatment for aids? No, they call it “entertainment”. Keep up the GREAT work Louise Simmons. World, it is time to wake up and put a stop to this once and for all.