Libby Post and the New York State Animal Protective Federation (NYSAPF)
Protects animal shelters and pounds - not the animals.
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For Libby Post, it's more important to make sure kill pounds don't look bad - than it is to stop them from killing and bad practices.
Quoting Libby Post: “We want to do everything we can to make sure the shelters don’t look bad.”
Libby Post lobbied Senator Martinez to oppose CAPA.
Lobbying government
with public funding
is corrupt and illegal.
Rather than protecting animals and having their best interests in mind,
NYSAPF collects dues from shelters (pounds) such as NYCACC, and other animal organizations,
in return for
offering them protection for poor practices.
It is likely illegal and a conflict of interest for the ACC and other kill pounds
to use taxpayer money to fund lobbying for their own benefit.
New York State kill pounds are depending on Post to defeat CAPA, in order for them to be able to continue killing without being held accountable for their cruelty.
Letter from the Senator's office stating that NYSAPF is studying CAPA.
NYSAPF dues will buy you protection.
NYSAPF wrote a letter of recommendation for a shelter that committed
violations
of New York State law.
This is what NYSAPF typically does despite the poor practices of their dues-paying members.
NYSAPF's Libby Post and Senator Monica Martinez
NYSAPF's Libby Post is lacking in compassion for animals.
In 2019 Maddie’s Fund (in partnership with the ASPCA), released a video opposing transparency in shelter statistics, urging people to fight laws that require shelters to report how many animals they take in, adopt out, reclaim to their families, transfer to rescue, kill, and who died in their custody. They called legislation to require those numbers a “bad bill".
The article - Maddie's Fund & ASPCA's real agenda - exposes the hypocrisy in Maddie’s Fund, a pro-killing organization that began with a supposed “No Kill” mission. In the video featured in the article, anti-CAPA kill pound lobbyist Libby Post, head of NYSAPF, attacks Senator Monica Martinez for sponsoring a shelter statistics reporting bill (a component of CAPA), in the NY State Senate, that was also sponsored by Assemblyman David Weprin in the NY State Assembly.
Libby Post brags about how easy it was for her to thwart the will of the people and to defeat the bill with just one memo, because the bill would have made high-kill pounds “look bad.”
Martinez's committee passed her reporting bill 7-0, but it died in the Finance Committee. A committee chaired by one of the bill's co-sponsors.
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Maddie’s Fund
Making sure “shelters” that kill “don’t look bad” - more important than stopping them from killing.
Conference Recording
How to Get Things Done with the NYS Legislature
Libby Post - Presentation at Maddie's Fund Conference
28:20 mark
Libby Post lobbied to shorten the hold time for cats, thus hastening their deaths.
Libby Post bragged that one of her big lobbying achievements of 2018
was cutting the hold time for unidentified cats.
This means that she lobbied to shorten the time cats
had in pounds before being killed - thus hastening their deaths.
Libby Post and the storm at the Niagara SPCA.
Editorial:
Storm at the Niagara SPCA
Raising concerns on the conflict of interest
over NYSAPF's audit of the Niagara County SPCA.
NYSAPF Shelter Lobbyist Libby Post hired to audit paying member Niagara SPCA after former board members raise mismanagement issues.
After local SPCA board members resigned over the treatment of animals in the shelter, the SPCA hired through their own lobby organization, Libby Post's NYSAPF to conduct the audit. Libby Post of NYSAPF, an anti-No Kill lobbyist organization , which opposes NY CAPA, was paid to audit client Niagara County SPCA. This is an conflict of interest and an ethical breach.
Libby Post/NYSAPF client Niagara SPCA lied to its own board regarding the number of animals killed by its pound. It had killed about 35% more dogs and 50% more cats than it claimed. Libby Post came to Tim Brennan's - an awful shelter director's rescue.
Niagara SPCA admitted:
-- Instead of 37 dogs and 101 cats killed,
the actual numbers were 52 dogs and 156 cats, a difference of 70.
The Niagara SPCA's
Shelter Director Tim Brennan
admitted that incorrect reports were given to the
board of directors on the number of animals killed
at the shelter between 10-1-18 and 11-12-19.
Brennan blamed its under-reporting of cat killings by 50% - on a "computer software" glitch. What makes this even worse is that Libby Post had lobbied to block animal shelter reporting requirements in New York State.
Shelter animal group sees bias in Niagara SPCA review
Marilyn Galfin, founder of Voices for Shelter Animals writes about the conflict of interest:
"Libby Post is being paid to do an audit
from a paying member of NYSAPF, her organization.
The concern is that there is going to be a bias going on,
because the organization,
their goal is to work on making these shelters appear good."
Craig Seeman, of Voices for Shelter Animals -
"...she [Libby Post] has a financial interest in her clients as a lobbyist,
and her clients as elected officials,
because she works for them professionally.
She gets them elected and then you get into
who owes who favors,
and I really think we should keep that separate."
Combatting Anti-No Kill Extremism
Davyd Smith of No Kill Colorado and
Debra Griggs of Virginia Federation of Humane Societies
discuss lobbying strategy
at the 2019 American Pets Alive! Conference
Combatting anti-no kill extremism.
Please work with Nathan Winograd of the No Kill Advocacy Center.
Last modified April 2023.