| Ed Butcher: He's Back and Better than Ever
You just can't make this stuff up.
Ed Butcher so badly wants to slaughter horses. He's teaming up with Two Rivers Authority in Hardin to attract investors from China to build a horse slaughter facility.
In case you've forgotten, Two Rivers is the outfit that built the prison in Hardin and then could not find any prisoners.
None.
Not even Guantanamo detainees.
Well, OK, there was Mike Hilton (and his America's Private Police Force) who blew into town with a couple of luxury SUV's and hired a couple of folks to occupy the place before the promised investments and prisoners never materialized.
Now, Representative Ed Butcher, the sponsor of the bill which puts Montana in a position of allowing one on these damned things to be built, has the Two Rivers folks dreaming big time.
Sorry, Hardin, Ed and his bunch do not intend to use the prison facility, but there is an ethanol facility that was built and also never utilized (Is there something in the water?) that could be transformed into a major equine killing floor.
This is all being done under the guise of economic development. The area is desperate for any activity that creates jobs.
If Ed succeeds in moving this idea forward, Montana will be the scourge of the nation. There are no other such facilities in the United States anywhere.
If he fails, Hardin and Montana will be a laughing stock again for a couple of weeks. |
