NYCLASS Plots to Sway Undecided Pols on Horse Carriage Ban

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Ross Barkan

When it comes to the City Council, NYCLASS is not horsing around anymore.

New Yorkers for Clean, Livable and Safe Streets, the animal rights group seeking to ban horse-drawn carriages from city streets, is taking aim at the more than 20 council members still mulling one of the top priorities of the mayor. NYCLASS is plotting an extensive lobbying effort, sources say, to eventually cull together the City Council votes necessary to outlaw the carriages.

“100 people came to an organizing meeting last week. They were broken into teams by borough and will be canvassing in priority City Council districts to gain support for the removal of carriages from city streets,” a source close to NYCLASS told the Observer.

“This is the start of a big ground effort by the hundreds of NYCLASS supporters to sway council

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1. Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver blocks bills to save the carriage horse drivers

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/assembly-speaker-blocks-bills-save-carriage-horse-drivers-article-1.1809472