De Blasio To Ban Horse-Drawn Carriages — Page 3

"I have a problem with hypocrites who are worried about 20 horses when there are millions of dogs mistreated in the city every day."

Whoa, do you pay attention to yourself?

1. 20 horses? I wish it were only 20. And guess what? EVen if it were ONE horse, that's one too many.
2. Guess what - it's possible to be concerned with more than one thing at a time. We can be concerned with the plight of horses AND dogs. yes, it's possible!
3. oy Goth

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If you had EVER posted on here in favor of better treatment for dogs, you might have more credibility on this issue.

Instead, it just seems like you are using the dogs and horses to begin a new four-year-long campaign against another liberal politician.

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And where is your proof that there are millions of dogs mistreated? And do you work with any animal welfare groups or volunteer with an animal rescue group? If your answer is no to both, then what are you doing to help these "millions" of dogs? If your answer is nothing, then I wouldn't talk about other people being hypocrites.

And yes, I am involved with an animal rescue group around where I live. I see all sorts of things.

And this was to Goth, not anyone else who posted in between that nonsense.

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Updated On: 12/31/13 at 11:58 PM

"And to echo Marianne, who said the dogs are being mistreated?"

Mary Tyler Moore and Bernadette Peters for starters, who every year are involved in an event called Broadway Barks because they recognize that the mistreatment of dogs and cats is far worse than that of horses.

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Yes Goth, they try to find homes for dogs in Hot NYC apartments!

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Broadway Barks is a cat-and-dog adoption event. Horses are not involved.

If Bernadette Peters and Mary Tyler Moore were to read that post, they would be telling you that you were full of horse-drawn horse poop.

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Liza, that comment alone was worth putting Sutton on ignore.

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Sadly, yes, it looks like it's true about the horses being put down.



NY DAILY NEWS: EXCLUSIVE: Both major mayoral candidates want to ban horse-drawn carriage rides in Central Park, but the effort to

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It's also a poorly-written article full of conjecture and sloppy writing. My favourite sentence:
"Since 2008, there have been a growing number of neglected, abused and starving horses — leading ranchers, like Charles Graham of New Mexico (pictured), around the country to support *human* horse slaughter." (asterisks added)

"Mary Tyler Moore and Bernadette Peters for starters, who every year are involved in an event called Broadway Barks because they recognize that the mistreatment of dogs and cats is far worse than that of horses."

Wrong. That is NOT the reason for Broadway Barks.

You keep dropping names of celebrities to make your argument. It doesn't work.

Face it Goth, you lost this one big time. What else is new?

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from the NYDN article linked by the OP of this thread:

"We are going to get rid of the horse carriages. Period,” de Blasio said in response to a question at his press conference announcing his schools chancellor pick Monday."

Someone asked the Mayor-elect a question, and he answered it--this is the sort of give-and-take that is the sine qua non of the Press Conference, but only someone willfully trying to find a way to object to something--ANYTHING--about Mayor deBlasio would suggest that he has "chosen" to make this "the first act" of his mayoralty.

Let me hasten to add, however, that I would NOT object to it if Mayor deBlasio HAD chosen to make this his first, official act. It is very much in keeping with the values that attracted so many voters to his campaign--showing a concern for those without a voice, oppressed and neglected by the rapacious Plutocrats who seem to have been the primary focus of Mayor Bloomberg's concern.

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Don't kid yourself Addison D. de Blasio didn't pay for his election by himself. The poor and down trodden will have to wait until de Blasio's financiers have had their payback.

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