[ Post a Response | New Holland Message Board hosted by C.D.E.R. ]
Posted by Antoinette Smith Jerry's "team" has accomplished nothing. Only the residents of Kaufman have any say-so over what goes on in the city. I spoke with JoAnn Talbot on the phone today. She said she attends every city coucil meeting and she's never heard of Jerry Finch. In addition, Mary Nash's husband in not on the Zoning Committe, he's on the Board of Adjustments, the board that is presently considering whether or not Dallas Crown is operating in non-compliance of their permit (which, we all know they are). The Board will meet again the 4th Tuesday of September. They meet the 4th Tuesday of each month, but have nothing scheduled for this month, so JoAnn said their next meeting will be in September. There are a total of 5 members on the Board of Adjustments, plus room for 2 alternates. It's hard to get our hopes up when the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality has told Kaufman City Manager, Curtis Snow, that Dallas Crown is operating "lawfully and according to best industry practices". A recent petition drive also failed to gather enough signatures to urge the city to take specific action (what happened there, Jerry?). Remember when the city turned off Dallas Crown's water last year? A judge merely ordered the company and the city into mediation and Dallas Crown is comming into compliance with what the city wants, albeit very slowly. Dallas Crown's lawyer, Mark Calabria, says about the current movement by the City Council, that all of the problems cited in the current move are "fixable". Indeed, none of the complaints the city is considering have anything to do with anything more than how Dallas Crown handles waste products from the horses it slaughters. I want to see Dallas Crown shut down as much as, if not more than, anyone else, and the same goes for BelTex and Cavel, but posting misleading information on the Internet with the main purpose of glorifying one person is wrong, wrong, wrong. Dallas Crown MAY get shut down because of this latest action, but it's highly unlikely.
on 8/17/2005, 4:24 pm, in reply to "One Fewer Equine Slaughterhouse!!!"
Connie, I know you just forwarded this. I got the same thing in my inbox. It almost made me puke to see someone actually expressing sympathy for all Jerry Finch's suffering over having to be in this neighborhood, doing this miraculous work. In fact, the area around Dallas Crown is NOT inhabitable. If it was half as terrible there as John Holland says, Jerry wouldn't need to be there stirring things up to begin with.
Now, you tell me if that sounds like a promising pole to hang our flag on?
John's post makes it sound like Mary Nash did so much before she passed away from Cancer earlier this year and that only Jerry has picked up the ball and rolled with it since then and nothing could be less true or accurate.
On behalf of all of us nation-wide who have been working dilligently to close down the slaughterhouses, I do thank Jerry for whatever he has done to fight horse slaughter for human consumption. I'm glad that because Habitat for Horses (& now Lone Star Equine Rescue) members are charged $10.00 a month on their credit cards to be his supporters and pay him a regular salary which allows him to not have to work a regular job and travel around Texas, Jerry MIGHT be able to get more done than the rest of us whose organizations are 100% volunteer or who must work for a living are able to do. But, we must never forget that whether it is the HSUS telling you that THEY got the recent anti-slaughter bill passed in the House (& asking for your money to help them keep on doing whatever it was they supposedly did while all of us were writing letters, sending faxes and making phone calls), or whether it is some fan of Jerry Finch's telling us that Jerry is the person to thank for something that is entirely in the hands of the city of Kaufman and its residents, no one single person or organization has done or can get this done alone.
Message Thread:
« Back to thread