"Get this, Barry ... I'm gonna use my stimulus money to staff an anti-cockfighting task force. It sounds legitimate, right?"
In March 2007, New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson (D) signed a bill outlawing cockfighting in the state. Now, Richardson wants to use federal stimulus money to staff and train an anti-cockfighting task force that will be charged with enforcing the more than three-year-old law.
New Mexico is down to its last few dollars worth of stimulus funds and Gov. Richardson in getting creative with its usage. He has designated $150,000 to be spent combatting cock-and-dog-fighting, as well as “animal hoarding,” wire services report.
The New Mexico Department of Public Safety will be awarded the full $150K to staff, train and provide enforcement tools to the state’s newly-deputized ‘animal rights’ cops, reports The New Mexico Independent.
Basically, Richardson has created a budget for a new police force to do the job of the state’s existing police force. It sort of sounds like the roles the so-called “czars” play in the Obama Administration, doesn’t it?
More bureaucracy. More of taxpayers’ money being wasted to create it. Talk about a ‘pet’ project of a(nother) big government bureaucrat!
New Mexico’s anti-cock-and-dog-fighting effort will not spur our nation’s economic growth as American citizens were led to believe the enormous stimulus bill would eventually achieve. It has absolutely nothing to do with achieving the goals defined on the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 website.
Blast Gov. Richardson if you are disgusted by his wasteful usage of New Mexico’s remaining ‘Porkulus’ funds. It’s still your money!
Contact Gov. Richardson via email or call his office at (505) 476-2200.
Office of the Governor
490 Old Santa Fe Trail
Room 400
Santa Fe, NM 87501
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