Madeleine Pickens has taken a page out of the book of the Friends of Barbaro, enlisting web support for her campaign to create a sanctuary for America's wild horses. In fact, she urges her supporters to contact Interior Secretary Salazar and encourage him to review her ideas.
It appears to be working. According to Pickens, Interior Secretary Salazar has received over 3,300 emails and in return, the Bureau of Land Management has conceded that Pickens' plan would indeed save the taxpayers millions of dollars.
However, the Bureau of Land Management is not going down without a fight. They cite several legal issues that still stand in the way of Pickens taking the wild horses off their hands, and these require Congressional authorization. In addition, they also point out that most of their contracts--which is how they view what Pickens is offering--are awarded by competitive bidding.
Pickens is all for competitive bidding and she challenges the Bureau of Land Management to conduct a transparent bidding process to create a humane, cost effective solution for the management of America's wild horses.
Pickens is waging a brilliant campaign and I can't help but admire her efforts. She has joined forces with large animal welfare organizations as well as with individual horse love and it appears to be working.
What this means, of course, is that the work of the FOBs has become a model for grass roots activism initiated on the Internet. I wonder how long it will be before the FOBs adopt Picken's plan as well.
Kudos to the group that started it all!
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