A committee of the LA city council is considering a report recommending a ban of the elephant guide (or bull hook) which is the tool that is essential to the management of performing elephants in circuses or film or TV. Copy of the report is attached. It is on the agenda for tomorrow at the Personnel and Animal Welfare committee.
Please call and e-mail the City Council and ask them to reject the recommendations made in this report or, at the very least, delay consideration until they have had the opportunity to hear from organizations affected by the recommendations. Please act today!!!
The Committee is chaired by Councilmember Paul Koretz.
Councilmember Paul Koretz
Los Angeles City Council
City Hall
200 N Spring Street, Rm 440
Los Angeles, CA 90012
paul.koretz@lacity.org
Other members of the Committee include:
Councilmember Richard Alarcon
200 N. Spring Street, Rm 470
Los Angeles, CA 90012
councilmember.alarcon@lacity.org
Councilmember Dennis P. Zine
200 N. Spring Street, Rm 450
Los Angeles, CA 90012
councilmember.zine@lacity.org
From Kari Johnson |
2 comments:
..Buckles, this was posted on facebook today..The proposed elephant guide (ankus, bullhook) ban in Los Angeles has been tabled.
Your e-mail and phone calls worked! Councilmember Paul Koretz, proponent of ban,
said there was so much public outcry that they would need to do more research.
He did not know when the proposed ordinance might come up again. This is the best we
could have hoped for since we only found out about it yesterday. The only information
council members had was provided by animal rights extremist organizations. Everyone working
together made this happen. Special thanks to the people who dropped everything and went
to the meeting today. You people rock! We'll figure out what happens next and keep you posted.
..Margaret..
KARI and MARGARET--I regret reading of this too late to comment before the vote. Thanks to you, we can be sure to be kept current with what comes next. It's good to see common sense prevailed yesterday. It looks like the extremists try to keep the vote quiet until after the meeting, and that you barely made it. Keep us posted.
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