Dow, Dow, Dow........
Sigh. Ever the slimy politician.
The "study" that he references was one that he and his back door dealing cronies commissioned. They have to submit for a public bid on things like that so they wrote the scope of the bid so narrowly that only the "No Kill" freak Nathan Winograd could meet the requirements. Literally, like no one else in the NATION could meet the narrow scope of the bid.
There was another nationally recognized group who submitted a bid, but guess what? Yep- you guessed it they told the County Council that a "No Kill" agenda could not responsibly be placed into a municipal shelter who has an open door policy. So what did the council do?
They of course picked the slimy bottom feeder of a lobbyist to come and tell them what they wanted to hear. What did the taxpayers get for their money?
Not much.
We have copies of other "studies" Nathan has done in other counties and he literally copy and pasted his "findings". Literally. Like word for word.
And how much did this "independant" study cost the taxpayers?
$30,000.
Guess how much "enrichment" can be done for dogs and cats for $30,000. Hell you could hire a behaviorist to help borderline animals become adoptable and actually SAVE LIVES. But no......they would rather have a lobbyist come and tell them what they want to hear.
They then believed this idiot that we do not feed the animals(are you SERIOUS?
?) and paid for $20,000 worth of cameras. Not to stream to the public to see the adoptable animals we have...again good lord you might actually benefit the animals.......no it was to keep an eye on the officers to make sure we actually fed them.
Hmmmmm.....almost a year later what have the cameras shown...........yep you guessed it. We feed the animals twice a day. You would think the fact that the animals are not thin(unless they come in that way) and the fact they are paying thousands in food bills would have tipped them off to that. But no.......Nathan said we did not feed them, mind you based on empty food bowls day after day(horrors!!!!!! If you come to my house except for the 10 seconds it takes my dogs to hoover down their food their bowls are empty too, day after day so I must not feed them) You can chock up that wasted $20,000 to Julia Patterson..........
Then there is Brenda Barnette of the Seattle Humane Society. Yes the same Brenda Barnette who has lobbed all sorts of accusations at us over the last 2 years while back door dealing with Dow and his buddies. She likes to say she can do it better.
As far as medical care goes, I know for a fact they do not intubate their spays and neuters......we do. So her veterinary care is better? We have in the time I have been there provided advanced medical care for adoptable animals that rivals anything they do, and indeed surpasses it in many instances. Amputations, ACL surgeries, eye surgeries, skin disease, dental care, all with donations. Mind you not the donations made by the citizens to the county.
Why not you ask?
Because DOW and his cronies will not let us access them. So we have an independant non-profit Friends of KCAC that pays for ALL of these surgeries.
Seriously.
Then we need to remember that not all that long ago Brenda was on the news telling everyone she could take ALL of the counties 13,000 animals on November 1st.
ALL of them.
For FREE to the taxpayers.
Just get rid of Animal Control.
All of them.
Well then her employees(of the 70+ there has been over 70 leave in the last year and a 1/2....care to think what that means about the working conditions?
) voted to unionize and she realized that the TRUTH would come out(they all have to sign non-diclosure contracts at the time of hiring.....just WHY is that Brenda?
) she then had to back off and admit she could only take 2500 unless the county paid her MILLIONS to expand.
Now mind you we had been telling DOW for months that her shelter is SMALLER than ours and she could not do this. He did not want to believe us because his buddy Brenda told him we were full of it.
Really?!?!?!?! She has been making money hand over fist at the taxpayers expense for years. We are an open admission shelter. That means we take EVERYTHING. Brenda takes in only what she wants.
The real kicker is we, thanks to DOW and Julia and his other cronies, have to send Brenda an inventory of our animals so she can come and cherry pick the fluffy adoptables for her shelter. Yep seriously.
You as taxpayers pay us to care for them, spay and neuter them, provide medical as necessary and then she gets to come and get them and adopt them out for $250 a pop. For Free. And does she take the pit bulls and rottweilers?
? Hardly. So she directly benefits from taxpayer dollars already.
Did you know she IMPORTS dogs from california and E. Wa because there are NOT ENOUGH in King County according to her?!??!?? Yep. Hundreds of them just this year.
Oh there is enough animals all right, but miss "We can do it better" doesn't want the ones we take.
She wants millions of taxdollars to take the ones we do. Hell we could move mountains with millions ourselves!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Why give taxpayer dollars to a private company? Put whoever you want in as a manager at AC and actually fund us to do the things you want and we will do it.
This makes me sick.
They of course picked the slimy bottom feeder of a lobbyist to come and tell them what they wanted to hear. What did the taxpayers get for their money?
