In 2018 the voting public in the State of Florida was inundated with and subjected to exaggerated and false stories in the controlled media of “abused greyhounds” for months prior to the election, convicting the racing industry in the court of public opinion, to make sure that damned initiative passed. It was all a lie, those dogs loved racing and with very few exceptions were treated exceptionally well by their owners and handlers in the industry.
The “ballot initiative” process in the State of Florida is an unmitigated disgrace and disaster and a blatant abuse of power by an uneducated and uninformed mob of the voting public which is routinely propagandized and led by the nose by moneyed special interests on the left hellbent on curtailing free market economic activity and the Constitutional right of assembly.
Many residents lost employment and related small businesses closed as a result of this racing prohibition as well as thousands of talented and well-trained and cared for dogs now left to the vagaries of dog adoption in a state already inundated with dogs which annually have to be euthanized because there are no homes which can be found for them. The take at the tracks for these races was what kept the dogs economically and physically viable and gave them good lives.
Allowing uninformed and emotionally vulnerable voters to have control of the process of amending the state constitution by directly voting for crack-brained so-called “Amendment” schemes and then having them automatically become “law” is a direct affront to the powers and functions which are supposed to be reserved for the state legislature.
This malicious and devious run around the legislative process has become the left’s most productive wet dream. Uninformed emotionally unstable masses voting for ill-conceived but cleverly-disguised left-wing attacks on personal freedom and free market economic activity.
We are supposed to have a representative form of government but the left has turned the Florida Constitution into a grab bag of ill-conceived laws and prohibitions designed to further its nefarious goals.
Am not sure how this particular genie got out of the bottle down here but we see it every election year most notably from the high speed rail idiots who continually attempt to enlist this perverse political process in its efforts to get property owners to foot the bill for a boondoggle high speed passenger rail system which it hopes will get Floridians out of their pickup trucks and SUV’s forever.
Am also not sure what the hell the remedy is going to be to get this nightmare process purged from our state before it makes of the state a Marxist hellhole.
“The “ballot initiative” process in the State of Florida is an unmitigated disgrace and disaster and a blatant abuse of power by an uneducated and uninformed mob of the voting public “
Truer words were never spoken. Until this stupid “Initiative” process is eliminated, it is a responsible persons duty to vote down all the initiatives that go on the ballots, nearly all of which are put there by leftists. Altering the State Constitution of Florida is the Legislature’s duty, not the mobs. But like legislatures everywhere the members seem to be in it for themselves.
My wife and I have a rescued greyhound. They make wonderful pets and in spite of what many think, they aren’t at all hyper, in fact quite the opposite. But if you have a large dog park or fenced in area, they are a wonder to watch run. And they have an art deco look about them.
Right now, and for the next few years before the sport disappears one can get a purebred rescue greyhound for the cost of a mutt from the local shelter (which around here seem to be mainly ‘the dog of peace’). There are local greyhound rescue groups around the country if you are interested in adopting one.
I’m afraid the demise of the industry is going to mean that the greyhound is going to disappear as a readily available pet.
“false stories in the controlled media of “abused greyhounds” for months prior to the election”
It’s the same story everywhere. Here in Pennsylvania they were able to convince the idiot voters that it was cruel to leave dogs outside in 32 degree days. One township was trying to pass a law that “dangerous” animals were anything with teeth.
The media constantly goes to PETA and HSUS (humane society of the united states- trades on the ignorance of the public, it has nothing to do with animal shelters) for quotes as if they weren’t pagan religious organizations with the goal of making animal ownership illegal.