{"id":2612,"date":"2022-01-26T23:14:24","date_gmt":"2022-01-26T22:14:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/monblogeur.tech\/index.php\/2022\/01\/26\/controversial-vet-board-member-resigns-after-getting-heat-for-facebook-post-boulder-daily-camera\/"},"modified":"2022-01-26T23:14:24","modified_gmt":"2022-01-26T22:14:24","slug":"controversial-vet-board-member-resigns-after-getting-heat-for-facebook-post-boulder-daily-camera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monblogeur.tech\/index.php\/2022\/01\/26\/controversial-vet-board-member-resigns-after-getting-heat-for-facebook-post-boulder-daily-camera\/","title":{"rendered":"Controversial vet board member resigns after getting heat for Facebook post &#8211; Boulder Daily Camera"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"cfbc967f0983488262956e73eca9483a\" data-index=\"1\" style=\"float: none; margin:10px 0 10px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3859091246952232\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- blok -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3859091246952232\" data-ad-slot=\"1334354390\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n\n<\/div>\n<p> \t\t\tTrending:\t\t<br \/>A controversial member of the Colorado Veterinary Board has resigned after taking heat for a comment she made accusing ranchers of using cattle to bait wolves.<br \/>Ellen Kessler submitted her letter of resignation late Monday afternoon, admitting she had \u201ccaused anger and discomfort and that I was unprofessional in my judgment.\u201d<br \/>Early Monday evening Gov. Jared Polis\u2019 office notified the Journal-Advocate of Kessler\u2019s resignation and included a statement from the governor\u2019s office.<br \/>\u201cThe Governor appreciates that Ms. Kessler has taken responsibility for the impact of her hurtful words,\u201d the statement said. \u201cHe looks forward to selecting a veterinary board member that better shares his strong respect for Colorado\u2019s hard working ranchers and helps build confidence in the practice of veterinary medicine across our state.\u201d<br \/>Kessler, who is a devout opponent of livestock agriculture, was appointed to the board in 2019. Her appointment has been decried by the agricultural community and even by the Colorado Veterinary Medicine Association since she was first appointed. Kessler managed to offend all of rural Colorado with one of her posts, which accused 4-H of teaching children how to abuse animals.<br \/>Kessler came under fire again last Friday during the Voices of Rural Colorado Conference in Denver. Near the end of the conference, Gov. Polis delivered remarks and then took questions. Two attendees asked him how he could justify keeping Kessler on that board after she publicly accused ranchers in Colorado of using cattle as \u201cwolf bait\u201d to scam reimbursement from state coffers.<br \/>That post was actually a comment Kessler posted on a Jan. 19 thread started by Reis about ranchers launching a new program to help them co-exist with bears and using nature to minimize or eliminate losses to natural predators. The tone of Reis\u2019 original post was positive and laudatory of the ranchers involved in the program. Kessler\u2019s comment, however, was anything but positive. Referencing a recent spate of cattle losses to wolves near Walden in north central Colorado, Kessler accused ranchers of faking wolf attacks to get reimbursement from the government for cattle that died.<br \/>\u201cWould our lazy and nasty ranchers\/cattlemen even raise a finger to make something like this work, or is using a cow to bait the wolves their solution?\u201d Kessler posted in a now-deleted comment. \u201cA living cow doesn\u2019t make money for them. Only a dead cow does. If the slaughterhouse doesn\u2019t pay them for the carcass, they\u2019ll blame the predators so the State (sic) will pay them for livestock lost from predators. What a racket. What a scam.\u201d<br \/>To be fair, that board has little to do with looking after the welfare of livestock animals in Colorado. That\u2019s the purview of the Colorado Department of Agriculture and its State Veterinarian, Dr. Maggie Baldwin. The CVB is under the Department of Regulatory Agencies and is primarily tasked with making sure veterinarians in Colorado are properly credentialed, trained and make the best decisions they can for the animals under their care.<br \/>Polis took pains to point out this subtle but significant distinction, to reiterate his commitment to having a wide variety of voices on state boards and commissions, and his reluctance to trample anyone\u2019s freedom of speech. He added that anyone who had an issue with any state official\u2019s conduct should register a complaint through proper channels. One of the attendees fired back, \u201cWe\u2019re filing that complaint now with the governor.\u201d<br \/>Minutes later the governor\u2019s office notified the conference that their concerns had been forwarded to DORA.<br \/>Monday morning the heat continued when Colorado Republican Party Chair Kristi Burton Brown tweeted her demand that Kessler be removed from the CVB.<br \/>\u201cToday I\u2019m joining Colorado\u2019s farmers and ranchers in demanding that @jaredpolis remove Ellen Kessler as his appointee on the Veterinary Board,\u201d Brown tweeted. \u201cHer comments about our agricultural community are disgraceful &amp; unacceptable.\u201d<br \/>Brown\u2019s tweet included a link to an online petition demanding that Kessler be removed.<br \/>By mid-afternoon Monday, Polis had Kessler\u2019s resignation in hand.<br \/>\u201cI realize that some of my actions have caused anger and discomfort and that I was unprofessional in my judgment,\u201d Kessler wrote. \u201cI apologize to you and the citizens of our great State and wish you the best of luck as you continue to make Colorado the best in the nation.\u201d<br \/>Kessler\u2019s resignation is effective at close of business Feb. 22.<br \/>Sign up for email newsletters<br \/>Making a grocery list? 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