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LEXINGTON, KY. - Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., pressured the U.S. Department of Agriculture for years to back off its enforcement of the Horse Protection Act, even threatening to cut the agency's funding, according to documents obtained by the Lexington Herald-Leader.
McConnell has supported the Tennessee Walking Horse industry in its battle against USDA inspectors who look for evidence of soring, the illegal practice of deliberately injuring a horse's front feet to get it to step higher in an exaggerated style known as 'the Big Lick.'
McConnell backed the industry's demand for its own inspectors - paid by the industry, drawn from the ranks of horse owners and trainers - to have a greater role in soring inspections, rather than the USDA veterinarians who uncover and report soring more frequently.
At the same time, the industry donated tens of thousands to McConnell's campaign and hired his Senate chief of staff, Niels Holch, as its Washington lobbyist and attorney.
'McConnell probably has caused more problems for horse protection single-handedly than any other person. He set the cause of horse protection back by years,' said Donna Benefield, administrative director of the Horse Protection Commission, a USDA-certified inspection group in Gallatin, Tenn

The Roman emperor Caligula appointed his white horse to be a consul, and the horse sat in on the highestlevel government policy meetings. Today, we describe Caligula as insane and mock his bad judgment.
John McCain asks us to put into the second-highest office in America a person who wastes millions of taxpayer dollars on hunting of wild animals from helicopters, who wants creationism taught in schools, who wants to overturn Roe v. Wade, and who is as ignorant as a horse's behind about terrorism, economics, foreign policy, medical insurance systems, inner-city poverty, immigration policy, nuclear energy and nuclear threat. Is McCain's judgment any better than Caligula's?
Tom Markus
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