The entire blogosphere is learning about Helena-West Helena Mayor James Valley (pictured). Today’s report on Wonkette:

Arkansas, our greatest state, has produced our nation’s favorite fat politicians (Mike Huckabee and Bill Clinton) while not really being part of Western Civilization. Proof? Mayor James Valley, “of Helena-West Helena,” just shut down his town’s animal shelter and set all the dogs loose in St. Francis National Forest.

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There were complaints about the impoverished town’s shitty dog shelter, which was apparently just some fencing around a slab of asphalt in the garbage truck’s parking lot. Instead of constructing a functional animal facility or contracting out to a local dog kennel or, you know, something sane, Mayor Valley bravely decided “the dogs would be better off fending for themselves in the St. Francis National Forest.”

 

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