As of today, the constitutional question is on the November ballot - says the Florida Supreme Court.

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Your dog may be in this fight, but mine aint. Given your knack for attacking people and making enemies out of people who otherwise might be your supporters - youre headed for oblivion. Take that to heart and work hard between now and election day, and maybe youll pull out of your tailspin. Good luck.

I will go so far as to say you are a troll without a boer force field
bye bye Mr retired spin merchant I think I can hear an exotic breed of gaze hound barking and in need of rescue in Chicago and lakeside.

Like a Geranium trying to grow on a beach, isn't he Jima.
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Looks like she's smashed her bat and gone home......mwahahahhaaaa ...what do you reckon Mick? mwahahahahaaa

2 differing takes as would be expected.....always wary of antis use of words like education... the usual humanization of animals .and these non human citizens don't have a vote in their future occupation hmmmph

Kate MacFall of the Humane Society of the United States says supporters of Amendment 13 plan to spend the next two months educating voters.

"Because this industry and this practice is so unpopular, no one goes anymore. It's a loss leader financially. It's not on the top of everyone's minds, like it is on ours. Certainly, there is some outreach, and we are working very hard on educating Florida voters that this is a reality," said MacFall.

Opponents of the proposal, including Florida Greyhound Association lobbyist Jack Cory, say passage of the amendment will have a negative economic impact on the state.

"It is not going to stop greyhound racing. What it's going to do is stop live greyhound racing in the state of Florida. It'll cost the state of Florida over $80 million a year in live betting on live greyhound racing, another $200 million at greyhound tracks, 3,000 jobs, and put 8,000 beautiful greyhounds at risk. It's a bad proposal."

I like this.

Kate MacFall of the Humane Society of the United States says supporters of Amendment 13 plan to spend the next two months educating voters.

How can you educate people about the the truth when you don't know it?
These people have never been inside a racing kennel yet they are the authorities on everything greyhound.

You know what? Ive visited racing kennels. I enjioy watching greyhounds race at tracks. Ive attended frequently in Florida and when there was racing in Wisconsin, and have bet on races. Ive never personally seen dogs mistreated in commercial racing and have no reason to suspect that to be a problem, except in the rarest of individual instances. I am perfectly happy if Florida greyhound racing survives, but that doesnt look likely. I believe that greyhounds as individual dogs and as a breed in the U.S. will not be the better of it if racing ends in Florida.

But greyhound racing is not a charity. As a business, its a longtime money loser and thats the reason that half the U.S. tracks have gone out of business in the last two decades. At best, its a marginal indiustry in Florida.

Yet you guys cant accept financial reality. You cant control your rage and frustration when somebody speaks basic truths to you, so you seek to make scapegoats and lash out at them. Now you fall back on name-calling because you have nothing else to argue.

See you on on November 7 - the day after the Florida election. As the Florida greyhound industry bails out and gets rid of its dogs, there will be thousands of adoption volunteers across the country working to rehome the greyhiounds that will become surplus. For those few unscrupulous people tempted to put a bolt gun to their dogs heads, please dont. We volunteers will do our best to take everyones dogs off their hands and find them good forever homes.

If the tracks are losing money on greyhound racing why are all St. Pete., Jacksonville and Palm Beach along with Daytona and Sanford Orlando with the vote NO on question 13 side? Wouldn't they want to get rid of their losing proposition?

On one hand it is "I'm one of you guys" and on the other it is "See you in the dirt".
About as clear as mud I reckon.
If I was a retarded Martian, you might of had me.

Hope the election is a success for the racing Grey and the trickeration donation scammers get booted to where they belong...oblivion.

BTW, Wayno, you seem confused.
This is a PRO racing website so anti racing views are not welcome.
There are sites you can go that welcome debate and sites that are purely anti.
You need to go there, not here.
You have views and that is fair enough but they are misplaced here.

However, when one tries to use deception as a tool to troll, you need to be torched.

Is this greyhound alliance mob to be trusted Dick?

Is this greyhound alliance mob to be trusted Dick?

Jim,

I would say yes as the president has always been on our side from other comments he has made over the years.

Just wondered thanks for the reply.
Hoping you and all your comrades the very best of luck against the disinformants.this all began because of a governors wifes PC ill informed take on the game .is that right?

No on a governor's wife, but yes on the ill informed. G2K and the HSUS supply the lies and they people that don't want to find out the truth become the ill informed voters.

We fight everyday to get the truth out and we are having some impact.

I'm glad M8 you know what almost happened here in NSW ? It was good people power that overturned the self proclaimed messiahs ,read premier, edict that greyhound racing was evil and will be banned.

He underestimated the passion, the numbers, the tenacity(grrrrrrr type) social impact ,economic impact but most importantly ;where pollies are concerned; political implications and lost a blue ribbon SAFE seat to The Hunters Fishers and Farmers Party who are staunchly pro greyhound and true earth based focused humans.

When it's all said and done the money is one thing but it runs way behind most motivating forces where people and hounds come together.

What motivates the antis I see is them being educated by spin merchants ,them, trying to further themselves either financially or politically ...the further society retreats from the natural world the more guilt felt is assuaged by having a cause

i.e. I'm a good person I banned the cruel sport of greyhound racing.

These MF's should get the evil #*^%!@# that fight dogs , help homeless people (I said it people) make sure their neighbours aren't in need if they need a cause and leave bloody greyhound people to their own devices.

Unscrupulous people will race dogs "underground" in swamps etc and what a bloody nightmare that would be. Kennel inspections hahahaha drug testing hahahaha vet inspection before EVERY race hahahaha and ad infinitum.

I have no time for ignorant antis and their cling on rent a crowds..all part time anarchists when it suits and angels ,so easily offended, the rest.

It is so good these people can be given the good oil on GD

Keep up the good work those who are responsible for Greyhound Data I do thank you all.

Racing greyhounds is many of OUR Greyhound families birthright.

FU ANTIS

Of course, Antis, there won't be executive salaries and trips around the world for you, instead, there will be owners who come after you with butcher knives, there will be death threats, not only to you but even to your own dogs, I've been there and had that happen to me - ah, now THAT'S a different story, isn't it?

And because I know what REAL "cruelty to animals" is, I am proud to support greyhound racing.

Jim, as someone that almost always wears a t-shirt with a greyhound on it I try to remember when being approached by an anti is there are two kinks of antis. One is the die-hard everything is is wrong with racing and I don't waste my time with them. The second is the anti that has never heard the our side. If the second kind wants to listen I have a chance to change his or her opinion or at least make him or her want to do some research.

That is all I ever ask is find out for yourself because I'm not afraid of the truth, the antis are.

I love it truth and , as both Ilse and Dick espouse , you can't be scared of it.

Hope all you people are high dry and safe ... anyway those caring antis will be out there turning back the evil tides ... keeping the world safe as usual....it's a fact I tell you..