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The PAUSE initiative is slated to go to voters in 2022. Ag producers, veterinarians, animal breeders and more are concerned about the potential consequences of the act. Getty images
Melody Villard doesn’t know whether to accuse the organizers of the PAUSE initiative of incompetence or resoluteness. Either way, if voters approved it, she believes the state’s agricultural industry as we know it would collapse.
“It’s either well thought out to cripple an industry,” Villard said, “or it’s not well thought out at all, and it cripples our industry.”
Villard is a Moffat County Commissioner, but she says “our” because she runs Villard Ranch, a Craig sheep operation that’s been in her family for a century. The ag industry is so rankled by ballot Initiative 16 that a coalition of livestock and farming groups protested before the state’s Title Board, stating that the name was a political catchphrase. The name, Protect Animals from Unnecessary Suff
Marilyn Harris elected secretary of Colorado Republican Central Committee
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Marilyn Harris of Pagosa Springs was elected to the office of secretary of the state of Colorado Republican Central Committee.
Harris is also the county chairwoman of the Archuleta County Central Committee and is currently the state president coordinator for the National Federation of Republican Women in Washington, D.C. She has served as state president of the Colorado Federation of Republican Women and has also been elected to the Colorado Republican Hall of Fame.