{"id":1977,"date":"2011-05-26T14:14:52","date_gmt":"2011-05-26T18:14:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/05\/neglect-abuse-suffering-falsifying-documents-susan-leavins-lcc-24-may-2011.html"},"modified":"2011-05-26T14:14:52","modified_gmt":"2011-05-26T18:14:52","slug":"neglect-abuse-suffering-falsifying-documents-susan-leavins-lcc-24-may-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/05\/neglect-abuse-suffering-falsifying-documents-susan-leavins-lcc-24-may-2011.html","title":{"rendered":"Neglect, abuse, suffering, falsifying documents &mdash; Susan Leavins @ LCC 24 May 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ptrgodvILv4\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;\"   src=\"http:\/\/i1.ytimg.com\/vi\/ptrgodvILv4\/default.jpg\"><\/a>\nThe animal shelter story isn&#8217;t just about animals.\nIt&#8217;s also about mismanagement.\nIt&#8217;s even about prison labor competing with local labor.\n<p>\nAfter Susan Leavins read from her statement to the Department of Agriculture\nabout a starving horse, pigs castrated without pain relievers or antibiotics,\nand maggots in wounds, Chairman Paulk advised her she had one minute left.\nThen she got to her main point:\n\n<!--more-->\n<blockquote>\nI just want to say that a lot of these things they&#8217;re being addressed,\nand the whole thing is not being addressed,\nand that&#8217;s been the problem from the beginning.\n<p>\nMr. Pritchard came to the shelter four years ago and advised us\nin a closed meeting &#8230;\nthat if one more person came to the shelter and made a complaint\nwe would all be fired.\nHe would get inmates to clean.\nAnd the three people who would remain there would be &#8230;.\n<p>\nThere are some underlying things I think that need to be addressed other than\njust the topic.\nThere&#8217;s more to the story than what&#8217;s being told.\n<\/blockquote>\nIndeed there is more to the county mismanagement story than what&#8217;s being told.\n<p>\nFor background on this one animal shelter issue, see\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2011\/05\/-county-animal-shelter-issues-joe-pritchard-lcc-work-session-23-may-2011.html\">\nCounty Animal Shelter Issues.<\/a>\n<p>\nHere&#8217;s\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ptrgodvILv4\">\nthe video:<\/a>\n<p align=\"center\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"480\" height=\"390\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ptrgodvILv4\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<br>\n<small>\nNeglect, abuse, suffering, falsifying documents &mdash; Susan Leavins @ LCC 24 May 2011\n<br>\nRegular Session, Lowndes County Commission (LCC),\n<br>\nValdosta, Lowndes County, Georgia, 24 May 2011.\n<br>\nVideos by Johh S. 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