Written by Steven Long ~ Editor/Publisher of Horseback Magazine
Failed Politician Publicly Pukes Putrid Profanity
Sue Wallis ~ photo courtesy of Sue Wallis' Facebook Page
HOUSTON, (Horseback) – The late President Harry Truman was an expert on politics, heat, and kitchens. He knew that the combination of all three could be just too much for some in elective office to bear. Such seems to be the case with Wyoming Rep. Sue Wallis, the leader of an often fumbling effort to re-open horse slaughterhouses in the United States.
One of those fumbles came late this week when Congress didn’t allow an effort to slip in legislation that would have allowed the U.S. Department of Agriculture to fund federal meat inspectors in the abattoirs. Congress stopped funding the inspectors several years ago bringing slaughter to an end in this country. The latest attempt stumbled when an amendment was added in committee to the federal agriculture budget bill by Rep. Jim Moran (D) Virginia, barring funding for the inspectors. A second effort failed on the floor of the house when it was shut down by Indiana’s Rep. Dan Burton (R) after a bumbling attempt by Wyoming Rep Cynthia Lummis (R) to insert a provision that would have allow slaughterhouse owners to pay for their own inspectors in a kind of fox guarding the hen house end around. Lummis hadn’t done her homework and embarrassed herself because a federal court had ruled such funding illegal years ago in violation of the Federal Meat Inspection Act.
Angry retorts to Wallis are no stranger to Horseback Online. Almost daily she is called down for mistake after mistake, untruth piled upon untruth. Her critics are not kind.
Sue Wallis, like many politicians, has a Facebook page. Late Friday, in an emotional and angry post, Wallis façade cracked. “Okay everybody, I just banned all of those sonsa bitches off my political page,” she wrote angrily. “Enough is enough. It is my page and we don’t have to let them dump their BS in our laps. Thank you one and all for your support! — Sue Wallis”
To paraphrase old Harry, if it gets a little too warm in the pot, you might want to get off the stove.
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Categories: Horse News, Horse Slaughter
Straight from the Horse's Heart 
Just an FYI to our readership…it was YOU who alerted us to the Wyoming Horse Eater melting down on Facebook and spewing profanity. Screen shots were taken and our network of equine friends, writers and authors were alerted. Steven Long being right in the middle of that dialogue.
Due to the quick eye and swift typing fingers of our “Straight from the Horse’s Heart” (SFTHH) readers we have continued to document the outlandish and potentially unlawful activity of a very unbalanced, elected public official.
You guys just get better and better…you bring fresh hope!
R.T.
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The truth always gets out.
Our pain is that our equine partners are still suffering (and so are consumers of this putrefied product) and it just isn’t happening fast enough for our wild and domestic equines.
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Good old Harry Truman was correct when he observed;
“My choices in life were either to be a piano player in a whorehouse or a politician,
and to tell the truth there’s hardly any difference!”
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LOL…thank you! 😉
He was a very interesting man.
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Yep, Harry did his job, and then went back to his former life in Independence. We’re unlikely to see another president with his values, common sense, and distain for the spotlight. My son visited the family home a couple of years ago. When a visitor asked about mismatched floorboards, especially in the kitchen, the tourguide said that Harry had replaced them himself!
Remarks from the Truman Home website:
“The home of president who remained a simple man!”
“This home was kept exactly as it was left when Mrs Truman died; so it is a glimpse of what the Truman’s were like after they left the White House. It is clear that being president didn’t change Truman’s frugal mid-Western nature. The decor is extremely simple and basic; he didn’t try to change the home to match the grandeur he had experienced as president. It was as if being president was just a job and, when it was over, Harry Truman just went back to being Harry.”
“The Truman’s also lived in this house, when not in Washington D.C., from the time of their marriage in 1919 until their deaths.”
I don’t believe Harry would have chosen to run for public office in today’s climate of TOTAL corruption, lack of integrity, and abandonment of the concept of “public service”. The “shining” examples of our government’s all-time low: the DOI/BLM generally, and the WH & BP specifically.
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“I’m melting… melting…What a world, what a world!” I hope she goes up in a puff of steam and NEVER comes back! Keep up the pressure people…Let her have it with both barrels and full throttle. She is showing her true colors now.
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Great image, Pamela. I hope she takes her “flying monkeys” with her!
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It was only a matter of time for her to crack !!!!!! Her profanities match her appearance, What all must realize is that America Loves its Precious Horses, They are not only Magnificent to the eye they have purpose here, they are as i call them always Americas Regal Ambassadors of Freedom, they are the very core of Americas Freedom nothing else here will ever represent that any more Beautifully with Dignity, Pride and Honor then the Horses do………..That is only one of there attributes there are many all awesome it would take up this whole page to write them all down, but we here all know what they are , we have all seen , touched and felt them in their presence………………. They have always been our Lovely Allies , and I will always be there Ally………………. Any Public official who doesnt clearly see this and embrace it , does not deserve to hold an Office in the US>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>.
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You are so right about the true purpose of God’s magnificent horses, arlene. Every living being is useful for the spiritual attributes they bring to the world, not for their physical body parts.
Thanks, y’all, for bringing a little levity to this fight with your “dark humor.” We need a little comic relief to keep us going in this never-ending battle for truth, justice, compassion and for freedom from oppression. That doesn’t include “freedom” to murder our “property” for our own imagined personal gain.
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I have screen shots saved from all three of her pages..United horsemen and the two personal pages. Of course she has deleted every anti-slaughter comment.
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Jo…please forward, at your convenience.
Thanks…rt@rtfitch.com
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I guess she was even more upset that she couldn’t break any more arms over the internet.
Heffa!
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Evil and greed have no soul and know no shame. That woman is criminal to the core. So happy screen shots were grabbed from her FB page. The mentality of some of those posts sounded like 12 year olds. Brainwashed 12 year olds at that.
Kudos and cheers
~R~
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Thank you to all the amazing people on this blog, that have done so much. R.T. Fitch, thank you and your wife (and your team) for all your great reporting, documenting and sharing.
While she is in the process of “melting”, it’s a good time to, “bring the pressure on”.
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SS has met her Waterloo, her meltdown was only a matter of time !!! And that time has arrived……………………..
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Here’s what I have sent to sub-humans like Sue Wallis to let them know we’re on to them and are educating the public, many whom don’t know the facts on their evil intent toward horses, mules, burros, and any animal they can make money off of:
I have been a professional in the horse industry for going on 40 years. I’ve galloped Thoroughbred racehorses in the early-mid-’70’s (where I got a real eye-opening experience regarding the ugliness of the racing industry and the throw-away mentality of the owners, breeders, trainers), I currently still train hunter/jumpers, dressage horses, pleasure/trail horses, specialize training novice handlers with their untrained, “green” horses, I “gentle” wild horses, etc. I’ve owned and managed many boarding, training, breeding facilities through the years beginning when I was 18 years old (so 1977). I’ve taught a 2-credit Equine Management course at the college level. I’ve been a carded judge in various disciplines of showing. My husband and I currently run a private rescue where we have 36 horses, 3 burros, a 16 year old pet cow named Karma and bunches of dogs and cats. My experience in the horse industry is very broad in other words.
Here’s my “read” on whats going on based on my travels and experiences in the horse world for so many years:
The mass production breeders (generally Quarter Horses, Thoroughbreds, Paint Horses, Arabians and some Appaloosas, so not the “specialty breeds” such as Warmbloods, Morgans, Andalusians, gaited breeds, Gypsy Vanners, etc to the degree that I see with the more well known breeds named above) individually produce hundreds of foals (+/-) every year. Of these hundreds, they perhaps get *maybe* 10-20 that have potential in racing, reining, reined cow horse, hunter/jumpers, etc. The rest are not valuable because there are so many produced every year, so these money driven breeders dispose of their horses for FREE at the kill sales (and actually recoup a small amount of their breeding investment by selling the horse by the pound).
Then we have these same breeders, and trainers and owners who have their horses competing in the big purse 3-year-old futurities which means they must start these horses as long-yearlings/early 2-year-olds in order for them to be competitive by the 3 year old events. Many of these horses wash-out of training because of injuries, and wear-and-tear on immature bodies, while many don’t have the mental capabilities to do the work, and many have to be sustained on drugs just to keep them sound enough to compete at the futurities. So now we have more horses going to the kill sale if they are now mentally and/or physically unsound and not well bred enough to go for yet more breeding, or if they are a castrated (gelded) male horse. So the breeders, trainers, owners are once again disposing of horses for free, so they have no incentive to not continue to start horses too young, or to breed fewer horses since they can dispose of them for FREE.
Then we have the old breeding stock horses who have either out-lived their breeding capabilities and/or their particular breeding is being phased out of a breeding program, and since most of these horses either haven’t been ridden in many, many years, are not sound for riding anyway, or were never started under saddle in the first place (and this happens a lot with horses who were only shown at the top levels in halter showing where a lot of the money is at with various breeds such as Quarter Horses, Arabians and Paint Horses, and they were never even started under saddle and after doing well at the big competitions in halter, they went to the breeding shed to produce more horses with their lineage), and went straight to the breeding farm, they too are taken to the kill sale where they are disposed of FREE of charge.
Since it is not the typical backyard horse owner and/or backyard breeder who is flooding the kill sales with unwanted horses (and I have a weekly kill sale 25 minutes from me where I have rescued a lot of these horses I describe above), lets look at who benefits from horse slaughter here or across our borders:
1. as I’ve already pointed out, the mass production breeders.
2. the trainers who get these horses in training and ruin them at a young, immature age.
3. the owners who have a FREE disposal system in place for their unwanted horses.
4. the breeders AGAIN when they dispose of their unwanted breeding stock horses for FREE.
5.the horsetraders who go around getting horses from some of these breeders, trainers and owners for FREE and sell them at the kill sale and/or get a load of horses together and ship them to slaughterhouses in Mexico and/or Canada.
6. the kill buyers at the kill sale who buy these horses cheap, get a truckload together and ship them to slaughter.
7. the people who transport these horses to the slaughter plant.
8. the slaughterhouse workers who are usually paid minimum wage, and many of them are felons, (which increases the crime rate wherever slaughterhouses are located) and/or illegals.
9. the owners of the foreign-owned slaughterhouse.
10. the butchers, restaurants, etc, in foreign countries who sell the horse meat.
11. the citizens of foreign countries who pay top dollar ($18.00 a pound on up) for this delicacy.
*Contrary to what the pro-slaughter people would have you believe, horsemeat is not going overseas to feed the poor and needy. It sells for a lot of money, so its not being given away.
*It is also not typically being fed to zoo animals or big cats in rescues and sanctuaries. I have a friend who has a non-profit where he rescues and educates the public regarding the endangered species of Siberian Tigers (www.sabrefoundationinc.org). He is extremely fussy about what his big cats are fed, and does not ever feed horsemeat because he won’t take a chance of poisoning his cats with drug tainted meat. None of the other rescues and sanctuaries that he knows feed horse meat either.
*And there is NO WAY we are going to feed criminals in the prisons and jails horse meat because of the liability risk of tainted meat. Aplastic anemia is one condition that is prevelant in humans who ingest even small amounts of Bute, a common anti-inflammatory used in a lot of horses (not just working horses, but also for arthritis in older horses, horses recuperating from wounds, surgeries, etc).
*There is also NO WAY that horse meat will be fed to school children for reasons stated above.
*Policing the administration of drugs given to horses would be impossible to do considering that many of these drugs have a very long life in a horses system, so it would not be cost effective (once again, with our taxpayer dollars I’m sure) to test all of the slaughter bound horses and then put a “hold” on the thousands upon thousands who would test positive for drugs. Wild horses are also not immune to having long lasting drugs in their systems such as birth control drugs that we have no idea what problems could be caused by the ingestion of their meat.
*We as a culture in the United States do not eat horse meat as a rule (last sold in the US during World War II), so from an unemotional standpoint, horse slaughter does not benefit me or other taxpayers one iota, and in fact, it costs us money in various ways such as the use of our highways by big trucks hauling horses; towns, counties and cities where horse slaughter plants are located having higher crime rates (please visit http://www.animalstudies.msu.edu/Slaughterhouses_and_Increased_Crime_Rates.pdf for an interesting, impartial study that was done); inspectors at the borders; etc.
If horse slaughter were banned entirely both here in the United States, and also banning the export of our American horses for slaughter, we would see the breeders “rein themselves in” (pun intended) in regard to not producing so many foals every year, owners not paying to start so many horses so young and crippling them, having so many breeding stock horses that have outlived their usefulness, etc, because when it would actually cost people to humanely euthanize their horses and discard the bodies, they would absolutely stop their irresponsible and greedy practices because they don’t want to spend the money.
Our taxpayer dollars could also then be spent on euthanasia clinics, castration clinics, sanctuaries and rescues, education programs for horse owners on how to economically manage their horses while still keeping the horses healthy, and many other programs. I also wouldn’t have a problem with some of my taxpayer dollars going toward incentives to offer big purse 5-year-old futurities with the terms being that any horse competing in these events cannot have been competed AT ALL until after the age of 4. This would encourage the breeders, owners and trainers to breed fewer horses for more quality, not start them so young (because NO HORSE fully develops skeletally before the age of 4 years old, and many develop until they are 8) and physically and/or mentally ruin them, and take a little more time in starting them correctly under saddle so that if they aren’t used in a breeding program, they can be given away, or sold, as riding horses (and I have rehabilitated and retrained thousands of off-the-track Thoroughbreds for careers in hunter/jumpers, dressage, endurance, pleasure/trail riding, etc). We could also offer incentives to the breeders to either humanely euthanize their old breeding stock, or pay them a stipend to keep them at their farm in retirement. I will never agree however with ANY of my taxpayer dollars going to support horse slaughter and the greediness and unempathetic horse culture that we have now.
As it is now, as long as horse slaughter is not banned entirely, the people who are creating the problem of excess horses have absolutely no incentives to be responsible as long as they have a FREE killing and disposal system in place for their unwanted horses.
Regarding those who say usually one of three things as excuses for why we “need” horse slaughter, here’s my reply to them:
1. Reasoning/excuse: “people neglect their horses that they can’t take care of anymore”–Reply: we already have laws in place to confiscate and prosecute people who neglect and abuse horses. If so much of our taxpayers dollars weren’t going to illogical and wasteful programs, more money could be spent on hiring more animal control officers, horse specialists, etc, to deal with this problem.
2.Excuse/reasons: “people are turning their horses loose because they can’t afford to feed them”–Reply–it is simply not true that there are herds of domestics running around all over our country. When I hear “reports”, I contact the various towns, cities, counties where there is supposedly a problem and their replies are always the same: they’ve had a few loose horses, and its usually a case of the horses escaping from a facility orhome and they are reunited with their owners. Also, if there were so many horses running around loose free for the taking, then it stands to reason that we should have horse theft going down, which is not the case because it’s on the rise again. I also live in Northern Nevada surrounded by BLM (public) land. I see small bands of wild horses quite frequently, however, I do not see any domestic horses cruising around alone or with the wild horse bands. They are definetely wild horses I see, NOT domestics as evidenced by the fact that when you approach them, they definetely have never been handled by humans (so not the typical evasiveness we see in many domestics) and want to have nothing to do with humans.
3. Reasons/excuse: “this is the only work these people know because they have been horsetraders, or killbuyers, or transporters, or breeders, or trainers, or etc, etc, etc, for many, many years” Reply–this is bogus because there are many of us (myself included) who have had to switch careers in middle age for various reasons. When people use this excuse it just tells me they are lazy in mind and body, not that they couldn’t be employed doing something else, they just don’t WANT to do anything else.
If horse slaughter is not banned entirely, then I believe we the taxpaying public need some controls and mechanisms put in place to police those who will continue with their activities for as long as they can to the detriment of horses and other humans. For breeders, they should have a quota assigned for foals produced and if they go over that quota, they should be taxed or fined for each and every foal over the quota. Sure, we are a capitalistic society, but we also have laws in place for those people who are constantly using and abusing our system at costs to other taxpayers.
Quite often, I ask people a few unemotional questions (as if I don’t even like horses):
1. how do I benefit from horse slaughter? and 2. since we know I don’t benefit from horse slaughter in any way, how do we keep horse slaughter from costing me money as a taxpayer? NO ONE has been able to answer me those questions so that it has a positive spin in my favor.
In closing, mostly I outlined the issues with horse slaughter, but I would be happy to also discuss my opinions regarding the capturing of wild horses, the ranching, mining and energy industries on our taxpayer public lands, cost to taxpayers for removing the wild horses and burros, the reasons they are being removed, their mismanagement both in the wild, long term “warehousing” holding. The majority of the American public is completely against horse slaughter here in the United States, and also the shipping of our American horses across the borders for slaughter. This actually comes from people who aren’t really that educated about this issue, but find the whole thing “distasteful” (pun intended again). Whenever I educate people both from an emotional and unemotional standpoint about horse slaughter, 9 out of 10 are completely against horse slaughter, and the ones who are in favor are usually people who directly or indirectly benefit from it. There is absoulutely no reason we “need” horse slaughter in the United States or shipping horses for slaughter over the borders, however, education is key in exposing the lies told by pro-horse slaughter people (who are very much in the minority, but with the backing of some very powerful lobbies in Washington D.C., it can seem like they are in the majority) and who are the ONLY ones who benefit from it. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me.
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WOW!!!!!!
A bit long, but certainly not a wasted word! Thank you, well stated and remember, this putrid cycle is like to the elusive “perpetual motion machine”; only difference is we are talking living beings being brutalized…not a way to light the world’s cities, villages, hamlets or solitary rural home.
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WOW and Double WOW what an awesome post thank you very much for it………….
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Triple “WOW.”
I’m going to copy/paste this and send it to lots of friends. It should be required reading for every legislator, government bureaucrat, and judge, not to mention for every one who has anything to do with horses — and, while we’re at it, for every citizen of the world. Thank you so much, Laura.
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Dear CQ I also copied and posted Lauras post and sent it to every rep in Ohio and all my friends,,,,,,,,,,,,, i is awesome………………….
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And, yes, Laura, you have my vote for following up on your offer to: “… also discuss my opinions regarding the capturing of wild horses, the ranching, mining and energy industries on our taxpayer public lands, cost to taxpayers for removing the wild horses and burros, the reasons they are being removed, their mismanagement both in the wild, long term ‘warehousing’ holding.”
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I’m sure Laura would be proud to have her post used, BUT…..take the core of it and tweak it with your own words before you FAX.
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Quad WOW! LOL Laura, this is an awesome breakdown, well written, and will be shared with many! Please let us know HOW to contact you and continue our awesome networking process that is definitely picking up speed and intensity. As Jerry Finch said so eloquently the other day (and in the process, gave us a new “rally cry” – WE CAN DO THIS! Blessed Be!
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“Sure, we are a capitalistic society, but we also have laws in place for those people who are constantly using and abusing our system at costs to other taxpayers. ”
After this recent economic collapse that has resulted from more and more deregulation over the past 30 years, are you sure this is the case? I have to wonder. And with the GOP strongly promoting more and more of less and less government spending, I fear that the ability to monitor ANYTHING anymore will soon be as rare as a wild mustang in the American West.
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Amazing and informative read Laura. Thank you! Let me say that I had NO idea that the horse meat business was so extensive and entrenched so deeply into the horse industry. I knew there were problems in the racing industry but I had no clue about the breeders.
Suffice it to say that your insight and in-depth knowledge have raised my awareness level exponentially, albeit to a horrified level, knowledge is power and empowering.
Wow, I’m just sitting here saying to myself, wow how can we (the general public) not know this? Add one more warrior-ess to the ranks.
Kudos-Cheers and unending blessings to you and yours.
~Robin~
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Hay Sue ya ole horse eating witch–my mother WAS not a bitch. And by the way who the blip are you to say such a thing about a woman you never even met!
Horse meat is tainted with all ki ds of drugs. And sorry to tell you this but since I’ve been paying taxes since I was 12, I think I have a right to my say. My tax dollars are being wasted on these roundups. I don’t believe any horse over the age of ten would willingly give up his life to feed a human.
Go home to Recluse and recuse yourself from any more horse eating agendas. And don’t worry Sue, I’ll try to be sure not to visitant part of your district. Fortunately not everyone in WY believes as you do.
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Just a note: for those of us who have walked the Wiccan path for many decades, please know that the most basic Rede of Wicca is: TO DO NO HARM! The men and women who are involved in the dark side of this entire situation with the horses (and, for that matter, ANY wildlife or domestic animals that are deemed to be here for whatever use or cruelty humans can come up with) are so far out in left field from ANY type of belief system that recognizes we are ALL connected and what we do to the least of us, we do to all of us. However, if a image must be applied, the woman with the flying monkeys is an excellent one at this time – no heart, no consciousness, nothing but self absorption and focused on what SHE wants to the detriment of everyone and everything else in the world. Sad to say, that same attitude seems to be prevalent in the government officials we all are dealing with. That’s one reason Reps Jim Moran and Dan Burton shine so brightly today. And bless Harry Truman for setting the bar when it comes to calling a spade a spade! Love the quote! Blessed Be! And WE CAN DO THIS!
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Great post Laura…aand so very true..Again, we are bearing the burden through our taxes
for the wealthiest people in the country. I think the time has come that people are fed up
with what is happening in our country. And Kerry you are right on..just imagine if there
were no regulations at all in place…I can’t even imagine…Justice and resolve seems to
take so long. But this is how it started in my state of Illinois when we were tired of Cavel,
Intl in our state. It took thousands of letters, emails and the attendance of many people at the commitee meetings in Springfield. The Lobbyists worked around the clock to shang hi
and derail our efforts. It was a very good day when the last legal avenue was shut down
when the Supreme Court refused to hear the case…And when I read all the posts from people all over the country, I see that perhaps this legislation will finally come about!
Great posts..great people..
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