City Councilwoman’s Deep, Dark Secret

I’m still kind of confused by Stu Bykofsky’s Daily News column this morning. His column revealed that Councilwoman Donna Reed Miller has a horse in her backyard.

This wouldn’t be all that weird if she lived at, say, a horse track. But, no, Miller lives in Germantown. And has a horse. In her backyard.

Amazingly enough, city law doesn’t forbid horses, mainly for the reason that, ah, almost nobody owns a personal horse in this city. You can’t have farm animals — “any chicken, goose, duck, turkey, goat, sheep, pig, cow” (cow? —ed.) — but horses aren’t considered farm animals.

It’s actually Miller’s husband’s horse, but she declined to let Byko talk to him. But, of course, this isn’t the only time Byko has dealt with Miller.

Miller reminded me that I had called about a pony in her back yard 10 years ago. I had completely forgotten that.

The Shetland pony named Shera was a pet for her daughter Shakira, I reported at the time. The loyal pony was getting old and probably was going to be sent to the slaughterhouse.

So not only does she own a horse now, but the last one she owned she probably had sent to the slaughterhouse.

Stu Bykofsky | Hoofing it to G’town to nag a pol (again) [Daily News]