So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

I can almost hear them cringe. The crazy woman wants us to read a book! Don’t laugh. It’s happened before.

You can read about here.

http://www.petconnection.com/2008/01/28/you-can-lead-a-florida-county-commissioner-to-water/

“Seems Florida’s Palm Beach County is considering a mandatory spay/neuter law, and some kind constituent sent each of the county commissioners, the ones who’ll be voting on the issue, a copy of Nathan Winograd’s “Redemption: The Myth of Pet Overpopulation and the No Kill Revolution in America” to assist them in making this decision that will impact the lives of dogs, cats, and people in their county.

 

Now it seems that one of the commissioners, Burt Aaronson, has no plans to read the book, saying, “If people want me to read something, they could have enclosed a letter: ‘We’d like you to read this, we are  giving it to you as a gift.’”

 

Wow, commissioner, you’re a tough guy to do a favor for. It wasn’t enough that this constituent purchased the book and sent it to you, you wanted them to schmooze you up, too?”

True Story. That person was me.

At the time and still today there are many pets that die at Palm Beach County Animal Care and Control. We were trying to do a few things. We were trying to create a village of knowledgeable people in all aspects dog and cat to cut down the death of the animals which is atrocious.  We had a big, diverse circle of friends.

This was probably the last public event I ever did in rescue. Most of commissioners were corrupt. The Palm Beach Post was awful. I hold them just as responsible as the commissioners.

One day I will write more but the big issue for me was that my friends the veterinarians are the one’s that sold the licenses. I did not want this to come between them and their clients.

Really deserves a full blog post because it is an interesting story.

One person, Bob Kanjian, read the book. He totally got it. I think if I asked him today he would say this book changed his life. I am forever grateful to him for reading and understanding.

What I found out this past winter is our Supermajority Florida Legislators don’t read books apparently. They have no idea how the water works, what the Everglades need. They take their order’s from Tallahassee.  Very Scary. Apparently you go there with goodness in your heart and you come back a scoundrel. Anything goes. Everything went out the window.

I have written that they need to be credentialed. I don’t think it’s too much to ask them to do what I have to do my job as a nurse.

They need to read and there needs to be a quiz.

I would really like a lot of people to vote so I can honestly say ” We had a poll and lots of people voted and we think it’s important for you to read and understand these books.

I promise I’ll write a note. I’d hate for Burt Aaronson to come back and haunt me.

Here’s the link. Please vote.

https://cyndi-lenz.com/2015/09/16/poll-florida-legislators-reading-list-yes-there-will-be-a-quiz/