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Originally Posted by Rupert Pupkin
The horseracing industry has 1000x more influence on congress than PETA. All the gambling industries have strong lobbies in Washington.
You guys are talking as if the people on the panels were from PETA and HSUS. Practically every person on the panel was from horseracing.
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HSUS has 1000x more influence on congress than gambling or horse racing. They own - today - far more congressmen than racing or gambling ever will.
The Chairman leading the hearing is
the husband of a vice president of HSUS.
They cut off or ignored everybody whose viewpoint they didn't want to hear and whose viewpoint didn't directly support federal control (don't read about what was said, go listen to it yourself)
Do not underestimate these people. PETA is nothing, but HSUS is something. HSUS dresses up well and goes to Washington daily.
HSUS wants to control horseracing with the point of banning it in the future. They know exactly what they are doing and how to garner public support, and how to lobby. And they have plenty of money to fund whatever they want.
THE HSUS CALLED THIS HEARING - it wouldn't have occured except for the Humane Society of the United States VP Connie Whitfield telling her husband to call it
The HSUS contributed campaign funds to Whitfields' husband, the Congressman who called this hearing.
To underestimate these people (the HSUS), or believe they will "help racing", is unbelievably naive. Look at their history in the animal rights arena.