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Updated via THE CHATTANOOGAN A COUPLE OF weeks ago a letter bearing the signatures of 175 very furious members of Congress was delivered to our nation’s Office of Management and Budget. It asked that the OMB review a rule amending the federal Horse Protection Act so the Obama administration could kick the shiny stuffing out… Continue reading Roy Exum on Horse Soring: Obama, Hear Our Plea
Cross-posted from The Chattanoogan » By ROY EXUM I believe the United States Constitution is our most precious document. I also believe in order for us to live in the way that so many who have died for our country dreamed we would someday, we must cherish the Constitution, uphold it, and glory in it.… Continue reading Roy Exum: Our sored Walkers weep
Cross-posted from The Chattanoogan » Senator Lamar Alexander, who has wonderfully dedicated his life in public service to others, is treading on a treacherous tightrope. The former U.S. Secretary of Education should have had the horse sense to know that playing footsie with the state’s repugnant “Big Lick” crowd of animal abusers will end in… Continue reading Horse Soring — Roy Exum: Lamar Is Embarrassing
Cross-posted from The Chattanoogan » About 25 years ago there was a terrifying movie called “The Silence of the Lambs.” It was so good it won the Academy Awards in all five categories – Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Director and Adapted Screenplay. Further, Anthony Hopkins and Jodie Foster were brilliant, but do… Continue reading Roy Exum on Horse Soring: FBI to Study “Lickers”
Cross-posted from The Chattanoogan » By ROY EXUM In what was described as “a scene from some sick horror movie,” Giles County sheriff’s deputies and animal welfare officers raided the farm of known “Big Licker” Jeffery Alan Mitchell near Pulaski, Tn., last week and confiscated 55 Tennessee Walking Horses, all horribly malnourished and some that… Continue reading Big Licker served 55 felony counts for filthy, emaciated Tennessee Walking Horses
Cross-posted from The Chattanoogan Link to Source Article >> BY ROY EXUM Senator Lamar Alexander, a 74-year-old Republican who is currently running for re-election, has shamefully and famously tried to derail the PAST Act, which is much-needed legislation in the Senate and the House that would help curb the rampant soring of Tennessee Walking Horses.… Continue reading Roy Exum: 51 Percent Of Horses Sore
Cross-posted from The Tennessean WRITTEN BY ROY EXUM Marsha Blackburn, a Republican member of Congress from Tennessee, became the subject of scathing fury over the weekend after a Huffington Post political columnist vilified the 61-year-old woman in a story entitled, “Why This Congresswoman Opposes Effort To End Horrifying Horse Abuse.” The short answer is that… Continue reading Roy Exum: Blackburn draws fury for supporting horse soring
Cross-posted from The Chattanoogan WRITTEN BY ROY EXUM Robin Webb, a Democratic state senator from Kentucky, just became “the Lance Armstrong of the Tennessee Walking Horse industry” after it was revealed two of her horses were ticketed with violations of the federal Horse Protection Act at a North Carolina horse show in October. There was… Continue reading Kentucky Senator and Big Lick queen ‘Just Like Lance’ says Roy Exum
The Tennessee Walking Horse National Celebration show rides on. by ROY EXUM Cross-posted from The Chattanoogan Roy Exum writes: In what should have been a huge positive step of a show, one that would focus on “clean” and sound horses, it has turned instead into a vicious war of words and, with newspaper readers and… Continue reading Roy Exum: A Dismal Horse Celebration
In an OpEd published by The Chattanoogan on July 31, 2012, Roy Exum writes: When it was learned that the Tennessee Walking Horse National Celebration has just hired a new CEO to replace the departing Doyle Meadows over the weekend, there was an audible gasp from those seeking to reform the badly-battered Shelbyville-based industry. U.S.… Continue reading New Tennessee Walking Horse National Celebration CEO is who?
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