L E T T E R S
Child held hostage by national mandate (Letter Leellen Koroulis sent to the Pueblo Chiefton June 26, 2007)
You won't see us at the Colorado State Fair this year. We won't be staying in your (Pueblo) motels, eating in your restaurants or shopping in your stores.
Why? We would love to attend and participate in the Colorado State Fair but will be prohibited from doing so because we refuse to register our property as a premises under the National Animal Identification System (NAIS).
The Colorado State Fair has made a decision that premises identification under the NAIS is a requirement for any 4-H/FFA youth to show livestock at the fair in 2007. If you would like to find out why we won't register our property as a premises under the NAIS all you have to do is Google the words NAIS opposition and read one of the more than 140,000 documents that will appear.
I am in a quandary as to how the Colorado State Fair can show partiality in favor of or prejudice against any citizen of the state of Colorado who is, in fact, funding the fair with their tax payer dollars. Could recognizing a child as being different for any reason and prohibiting a child from contesting in a tax payer funded event because of that distinction be considered discrimination?
My daughter has devoted hours upon hours of her life to her sheep project and is so proud to have the nicest lamb she has ever owned to show at the Colorado State Fair. Unfortunately, we found out about the premises identification requirement and she will be distinguished as being different by the Colorado State Fair and prohibited from participating.
We spent well over $1,000.00 in your fair city last year. I wonder how many families like us, having been been distinguished as being different, won't have the opportunity to stay in your motels, eat in your restaurants and shop in your stores this year.
Sincerely,
Leellen Koroulis
Good for her. We need more freedom warriors to stand up to principal. Government employees do not have a clue what is going on.
Jack
Thank you for the information. Tax dollars to fund the state fair next year will be looked at. Wes
Representative Wes McKinley
House District 64
State Capitol, Room 314
Denver, CO 80203
Roni,
Thanks for the email about the Colorado State Fair. I am now ashamed that I was their poster artist way back in the 1992.
What they are doing is so very wrong. How dare they coerce parents by manipulating children.
Greed and power for money are the ultimate corruption. This absolutely is about forcing agri-business to embrace the new critter identification tax.
Can't believe our state fair has succumed to Big Brother.
Might make a column out of this.
Ed Quillen