[ SHOWGSD-L ] A Meeting with Dr. Holt of AKC (long)
- From: "Catherine Murch" <fmurch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "showgsd-l" <showgsd-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2005 21:49:49 -0400
Hi All;
I attended the NJ Federation meeting last night where Dr. Holt talked on PAWS
and answered questions ( if you could call it that)
from the audience. I had also set through Dr. Holt's talk at the AKC Delegates
meeting last week.
The meeting started at 8pm and we were told we would only have till 9:30 for
the meeting. Will, we were all wondering how long
Mr. Holt was going to talk about his life history before getting to the point.
When the questions started he skirted around every
answer. No simple defined answer, typical politician answers, he did the same
thing at the Delegates meeting.
My question to him last night was what guarantee do we have that the numbers
will not change once this is enacted? His
answer was about 5 minutes long, that he "thinks" they will remain the same.
He also did not answer a question that was asked twice in two forms, and that
is how will the Government get information
on how many litters a hobby breeder may be breeding? He said " it will be like
income tax, they know who has income". When
asked if AKC would supple their registry records, he said no, the government
can not use an outside source. I personally do
not know if that is true.
There was also another remark made by Dr. Holt which those of us in the
audience ( Joan Murko who's report Peggy sent you
last week about the Irish Setter Club) caught and that was "when this is
enacted". To us it sounded like he thinks this is a done
deal.
At the Delegates meeting, more then once it was innervated that we the people
opposed to PAWS, have no clue about how
Bills come about. The second thing that was said was that we were making the
AKC look bad by contacting our Congressmen
and Senators now about the Bill, and that by doing this we were making them
lost their creditability with Government.
I for one, do not take favorable to have an organization insinuate that I have
no right to voice an opinion, because it is not their
opinion, or that myself and the people opposed are not educated. Because they
want everyone to jump if the AKC says jump.
AKC seems to have lost sight that we, the clubs, hobby breeders,and exhibitors
are the AKC. They have managed to make this
a house divided with the number of Parent Clubs opposed accounting for over 57%
of the purebred dogs in the registry.
I personal feel that those of us who are opposed must continue are fight and
not give up. Dr. Holt told my husband that he
did not expect this to be voted on until probably next fall. So, keep on
bugging your elected officials, and it someone who represents
you is in favor of this Bill and up for reelection, work like hell to elect
their opposition.
We do have power, and that power that we have is in our vote on election day.
You think with the devastation of Katrina our elected officials would have
better ways to spend our tax dollars. Sorry this was so
long, but I wanted to keep my GSD folks informed.
Cathy
Kelstar
Catherine Murch
fmurch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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