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HORSE SENSE
Periodic updates about issues and actions concerning New York City's Carriage Horses +
Coalition to Ban Horse-Drawn Carriages
www.banhdc.org
Horses Without Carriages International
www.horseswithoutcarriages.org
PLEASE FORWARD TO FRIENDS AND COLLEAGUES - ** After-summer party - this Thursday ** Results of ban poll ** Opposing Views new article ** The truth about the electric car bill ** Letters to the editor ** Times Square **
AFTER-SUMMER PARTY - THIS THURSDAY 9/13/12
Please join us - we'd love to see you. Call now to make reservations - pay at door
Please join us at our party "Stand-Ups for Carriage Horses" at the Metropolitan Room on Thursday September 13th. MCd by Harris Bloom, with Brian Gari, Honey LaBronx, Karen Bergreen & Tom Daddario.
- Metropolitan Room - 34 W. 22nd Street
- Date: 9/13/12 - from 6:30 to 8PM
- Must call to reserve seat - 212-206-0440
- Pay at door - $20 with 2 drink minimum
- Vegan options available.
Please note: you may pay online by clicking on Metropolitan Room, but you will pay a $3 service fee. The Coalition to Ban Horse-Drawn Carriages keeps $20. Or you can reserve by phone now and pay $20 at the door. OR JUST SHOW UP!
See a larger version of the flyer. Click Here.
TIMES SQUARE IS NO PLACE FOR CARRIAGE HORSES
New blog - click on video
This is a new blog about carriage horses and Times Square. Did you know that the horses can be worked there until 3AM in the morning? Click here to read Times Square is No Place for Carriage Horses.
- Credit for video and pictures goes to "horsesinnyc." Please click here if you would like to subscribe to this channel.
- You may subscribe to the BANHDC channel by clicking here.
HORSE CARRIAGES vs PEDICABS
Insurance requirement inequities
Did you know that the City requires only $10,000 property damage insurance for the carriage trade - but $50,000 for the pedicab industry? For pedicabs, it is $100,000 for personal injury or death of any one person resulting from any one accident. And for the entitled and dangerous carriage horse trade it is $25,000 for bodily injury of any one person resulting from any one accident or $50,000 for death of any one person resulting from any one accident.
See for yourself. These are the pedicab insurance requirements. And these are horse-drawn carriage insurance requirements. Even with insurance, there continues to be inequities.
NEW ARTICLE ON OPPOSING VIEWS
Thanks to Opposing Views for this piece by Phyllis Daugherty - Ban NYC Horse-Drawn Carriages: "New Bill Needs Your Support," says Elizabeth Forel. Click Here to read it. Comment if you like to support a ban. The same carriage trade trolls are out in force, which is always expected.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Queens Chronicle - Ban the Carriages
August 30, 2012 - Ban the Carriages -
Dear Editor:
I agree with Sen. Avella that now is the time to pass S.5013 and Assembly Member Rosenthal's companion bill, A.7748, to ban horse-drawn carriages in New York City, which also ensures the horses are safely retired ("No horsing around; Avella wants action," Aug. 23). I hope it doesn't take a human fatality to finally put an end to this antiquated industry, already banned in many large, traffic-congested cities.
An important side note: City Council Speaker Christine Quinn is a strong supporter of the industry, refuses to put the Paid Sick Leave bill up for a vote and let St. Vincent's Hospital close (the property was taken over by a real estate developer who "happens to be" a big donor to Quinn's campaign). And, so far, three former council members have been convicted of felonies related to the "slush fund" scandal - all on her watch. For the 99 percent, anyone but Quinn for mayor in 2013.
Mickey Kramer
Manhattan
BAN CARRIAGE HORSE POLL RESULTS
These are the results of two recent online polls asking whether carriage horses should be banned in NYC.
- Staten Island Advance - Yes 78.48% (766 votes) - No 21.52% (210 votes) - Total Votes: 976
- Crain's NY Business - Yes - 71% (2,607 Votes) - No - 29% (1,080 Votes) Total Votes: 3,687
*** STOP THE INSANITY *** A MUST READ!!
A ban must not be dependent on the success of "electric cars."
Please read my new blog called STOP THE INSANITY - Did you know that if you support the City bill, Intro 86A, the ban of the carriage horse trade is dependent on the success of the "electric cars, " which may never happen and if they do, their fate will be left up to tourists? Do you want some tourist from Podunk deciding the fate of the carriage horses -- and your safety?
Read how the electric cars - Intro 86A - will be detrimental to the horses even if we get a humane mayor. These cars have nothing to do with a ban and will hurt the horses in the long run.
A ban of the inhumane and unsafe carriage horse trade must not be dependent on the success of some costly vanity industry. Activists: you owe it to yourself to read and understand the implications of this bill - Intro 86A - and how it will hurt the horses. Click here and scroll down to Subchapter 33 - Show Cars. The only bill to support is the Avella/Rosenthal bill that is in the State legislature. Stay tuned for another Lobby Day.
For those wondering about our credentials, the Coalition to Ban Horse-Drawn Carriages started the campaign to ban horse-drawn carriages in 2006. I, personally, have been involved with this issue since the early 1990s. The campaign was not started by PeTA, nor HSUS, nor NY Class, and it certainly was not the ASPCA - an organization that, over the years, had many opportunities to do the right thing but did not. When those organizations were asked to promote our Lobby Day in Albany in May for the Avella/Rosenthal bill, they either refused to or screwed it up by intentionally not announcing the League of Humane Voters' bus. Really a disgrace.
We have no conflicts of interest. We are all-volunteer. Our only goal here is to see the carriage trade shut down and the horses retired to safety. Activists have been fooled by the glamour and glitz of the electric car campaign - with the endless petitioning and fund raising -- for what? Please do the right thing for the horses and support the Avella/Rosenthal bill - and make sure Christine Quinn is not elected mayor.
HELP OUR ORGANIZATION BY SHOPPING ON LINE
Also check out Cafe Press to purchase CBHDC merchandise
Through a free registration with iGive, when you buy merchandise on line, your purchase will help us. There are over 700 stores that include such popular ones as Amazon.com, Staples, Best Buy and Barnes & Noble. Even Cafe Press is available if you purchase some of our merchandise. Click here to get started.
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"Never doubt that a small group of
thoughtful, committed citizens can change the
world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever
has." Margaret Mead.
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Thank you for caring about the horses,
Elizabeth Forel - Coalition to Ban
Horse-Drawn Carriages - a standing committee
of The Coalition for New York City Animals,
Inc.
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