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Deb, as a representative of the ABA, and as someone who has known and worked with the man who was the Chairman of the Standards Committee for many, many years until his death, August Vinhage, I have to say your statement must be false, and frankly, I find it rather offensive.
Gus would never do such a thing. He was a stickler for details. I worked with him on the acceptance of the Blue Cream Light Brown Dutch variety, and I know there's no way that would have happened. He was a man of high ethics, whose interest was doing the right things for poultry and the Standard.
Now, I know there's a lot of politics in the exhibition poultry world (believe me, I've been on the receiving end of enough of it to know!) But that would NOT extend to admitting a variety to the Standard, it just wouldn't.
Please consider editing or deleting that statement, so that folks who don't know any better don't believe that it's true, as it's most assuredly not.
Thanks,