Texas Border Closing

You all should go to Whitetails of Oklahoma website and look under border closing. Its the minutes from the TDA board of directors meeting where they started the process to do a final closure on the border. It also talks about them getting Oklahoma shut down as well. We had traveled to Austin to TAHC meetings and a CWD Working Group meeting to get an exemption to their rules. After meeting with the working group we secured a unanamous vote to reccomend allowing Oklahoma an exemption. By the time we reached the next TAHC meeting there was a change of position from one member of the working group. That member was the TPWD representative(wonder what happened in between meetings). We were able to secure the go ahead and secure the right to do business in Texas from the Texas Animal Health Commission. The TDA went to TPWD after that meeting and had them shut down all states being able to get an import permit. That my friends is a small picture of what happened. There was alot more to the story, and a few more tricks pulled but that gives you the gist of it. Anyone smart enough to cut, paste and copy, please feel free to move that post to this site.

Thanks

Tim

Well James, they say honesty is the best policy but it isn't always accepted with open arms. Sometimes hackles have to be raised. I think what you are trying to say is, if you want to close borders don't be ashamed and affraid it will hurt your business. Just tell us the truth and at least we can respect you. As well, if you think open borders are right like you and I do, we just come right out and admit it. We don't say one thing in front of deer breeders and another in the presence of those in charge of our rules. I have many friends in the TDA and some of them are on their board of directors. Some believe one way and some believe the other. I respect all of them that are straight up and honest. I may disagree but thats ok. It is kinda funny traveling to Washington D.C. and watching the closed border state people tell their representatives about needing the CWD UM&R to be released so all states have the same CWD protocol. After watching that, my watchdogs on the TDA board telling me about the TDA talking about what the steps to keep the borders closed after the release of the CWD UM&R will be. One of their ideas went so far as saying they could close it because the so called Northern breeders might bring EHD or Bluetongue down there. Their Executive Director allowed as how he would be able to song and dance the Northern folks until they came up with some excuse. It would be laughable if it weren't so pathetic. They even went so far as talking about how they have to put an open border front while dealing with NADeFA but making sure the TPWD knows that they just have to do that to be politically correct. Well I like Texans as a whole but just like every other place there a few greedy folks.