Your Opinion: Other side to Prop. B

Dear Editor:

I spent the better part of one evening before the November election visiting with voters in the St. Louis area via computerized telephone contracts.

I was appalled at the number of people I talked to who did not know that there was another side to Prop. B. They also had made up their minds to vote for it, but after giving me the time to explain what was really at stake they changed their minds about supporting Prop. B.

I have relatives in both Kansas City and St. Louis. They saw nothing in either major newspaper that gave voters any indication that there was another side to Prop. B.

So no, Phyliss Greenfield, I do not give the voters of Missouri who voted for Prop. B the credit for being informed enough to make a rational decision.

To be honest, if Prop. B had not been associated with HSUS or any other animal rights organization, red flags would not have been raised, but then funding for Prop B. would have been much, much less. There would not have been those heart-wrenching ads on TV. The outcome may have been very different.

You know I could make heart-wrenching videos like that with my very happy, healthy and loved Rottweiler. Amazing what you can do with a camera nowadays.

What now concerns me is that you people who voted for Prop. B are not bothered by the fact that if the state does nothing about Prop. B thousands of dogs and puppies will die. What kind of humanity is that?

Congress and state legislators overturn ill-contrived laws all the time. Prop. B was definitely ill-contrived.

Hunte Corp. in Springfield is a broker not a breeder. The fact that there is such a demand for puppies only demonstrates the potential for the black market trade by those illicit, unlicensed breeders that have and will continue to break the law. Prop. B won't touch them.