HELP! #SaveNYCHorseCarriages Campaign Fights Mayor to Save Jobs

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Earlier today I talked about how Mayor Bill de Blasio’s agenda will turn New York City into a squalid nightmare. He has chosen an odd starting spot for his effort to destroy the city’s economy: About 200 people who earn their living as horse-drawn carriage drivers.

“We are going to get rid of the horse carriages. Period,” de Blasio said on Monday. “It’s over.” . . .
NYCLASS, the animal rights advocacy group that has been leading the charge against the carriage horses, donated $220,000 to a group dedicated to sinking former City Council Speaker Christine Quinn’s mayoral aspirations and another $124,000 on their own anti-Quinn efforts. NYCLASS was responsible for $774,000 worth of ads attacking Quinn, and its board members donated to de Blasio’s election fund.
During the campaign, Quinn said she supported the carriage horse industry. Her opponent, Bill de Blasio, promised he would ban it immediately. After his primary victory, some of de Blasio’s biggest fundraisers donated tens of thousands of dollars to NYCLASS.
NYCLASS has suggested replacing the horses with electric antique replica cars.

Electric cars.

That’s going to be a real romantic treat for honeymooners, isn’t it? “Oh, we went to New York and rode the electric cars!”

Don’t let this “animal rights” talk deceive you. Starry-eyed idealist don’t have that kind of juice. The big money behind the anti-carriage effort is rumored to come from real-estate interests who covet the property currently occupied by carriage stables.

It’s a crooked dirty scam either way, and the campaign to fight back against de Blasio is SaveNYCHorseCarriages.com.

 

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  2. Racists all. NRA teabaggers who hate women and children. I hope DiBlasio has the camps ready for them.

  5. Has anyone considered what will happen to the horses? There’s not a big demand for carriage horses and I suspect many will be “humanely destroyed.”

  8. I say De Blasio and commie traitors are the ones who need to be out to pasture, permanently. Liberalism is a terminal illness. War on women, check ISLAM.

  12. The cost to maintain the horses is well into six figures each, so they will almost surely be shipped to Canada where they will be butchered and eaten.

    I am boycotting all Canadian sausage effective immediately.

    Including Canadian “bacon.” What kind of bacon looks like that anyway? I suspect the hosers have been selling us horse bacon all along, eh?

  16. And yet one of the main groups of “useful idiots” backing this plan are “animal rights activists”……

  28. […] Being generous and assuming for the sake of argument that conditions for the horses are bad, the solution is not to outlaw an industry but to improve and regulate the care of the horses. It’s not wrong to use horses to pull carts. It’s OK to ride horseback and it’s OK to ride an elephant and a camel. There are lots of animals that are not suitable for riding, but horses are alright. This is actually common knowledge and the fact that there’s a serious debate over banning the industry shows how a more extremist animal rights community has been successful in framing the debate. Luckily the carriages won’t go without a fight. […]

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