Interior Secretary Ken Salazar. Photo Brendan Hoffman/Bloomberg.
We will highlight the salient points of this report by the Associated Press via Seattlepi.com:
- U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar’s office said he regrets threatening to hit a Colorado reporter who asked about problems in the government’s wild horse program.
- In audio posted by The Gazette newspaper of Colorado Springs, reporter Dave Philipps is heard asking for an on-camera interview with Salazar, a Colorado native who previously served as a U.S. senator from the state.
- After a few general questions, Philipps asked Salazar what he knew about Tom Davis, a Colorado horse slaughter proponent who has purchased hundreds of wild horses gathered from public lands by the Bureau of Land Management and about the agency’s wild horse management program, which Salazar’s office oversees.
- Salazar answered briefly but after the interview accused Philipps of setting him up, then posed the threat. “If you do that to me again, I’ll punch you out,” said Salazar.
- The Gazette (http://tinyurl.com/c7wduc3) reports it held the audio in hopes of getting an interview with Salazar. But a Colorado Springs-based wild horse advocacy group, The Cloud Foundation, publicized the exchange on Monday.
In the meantime, Ginger Kathrens was set to appear with Sean Hannity on Fox News to discuss the incident and issues surrounding it, but Fox cancelled.
RELATED READING
– Salazar threatens to “punch out” reporter (includes Action Alert)
– Ginger Kathrens on Hannity segment at Fox re Salazar and BLM
BLM Secret Documents to Extermination of the Wild horses under Secreatary Salazar
Dr Pat Haight an extra ordinary horse advocate sent for this information under FOIA and then informed the USA Wild horse advocates
If you want to know what Ken Salazar and BLM say about wild horse extermination READ this site information on the right side below the picture.
BLM spends millions of dollars on media to keep the public uninformed.
http://conquistadorprogram.org/blm__court_documents_on_wild_horses.
Questions can be directed to the Cloud Foundation Ginger Kathrens. Dr Pat Haight has made her transition and is truly missed by all who knew her work.
Thank you Pat for all your hard work ~ You made the history books.
I love reading your blog. You are always abreast of all “horse issues” and for that I thank you!
Slauthterslazar needs to go…he is a liar, cheat, and a thief… I have absolutely no respect for him as a person or in his so called position and all he has done is cater to the cattle welfare barons and the ones that want to kill all our wild horses…he is a threat to the American way and our America heritage.. and God will make sure slaughtersalazar gets what he deserves…I have faith in that
Ken Salazar, Wild Horse Genocide and Gas Pipeline Interior … Great article