TX-RPOA E-News
>>From Responsible Pet Owners Alliance,
> the reasonable voice regarding animal issues in Texas.
> Responsible Pet Owners Alliance is an animal welfare organization,
> not "animal rights" and, yes, there is a difference.
> Permission granted to crosspost.
>
> December 13, 2007
> San Antonio votes to go "Mo' Kill, not No Kill."
>
> San Antonio City Council voted unanimously to approve the Chapter 5 Animal
> Ordinance Revisions today. (Councilman Philip Cortez was absent.) After
> two hours of listening to citizens to be heard during the public hearing,
> council adjourned at 11:30 am for lunch and the mayor announced they would
> assemble in Executive Session at 1:30 pm briefly for private discussion
> before returning to council chambers. Upon returning discussion continued
> with the council members questioning Jef Hale, Animal Care Services
> director, for another hour.
>
> However it soon became obvious that all council members supported the
> ordinance. The Executive Session was simply to coordinate their votes and
> not a single word in the ordinance was changed. Council members said the
> revisions were constitutional as written since some speakers expressed
> concerns about that. They also said the city is "on the right road with
> this ordinance and heading in the right direction."
>
> Thanks to all of you who came today. We heard from others who would have
> liked to been there but had to work. It was very early with sign-in
> before
> 9 am. There were approximately 25 or 30 people representing each side.
> Our
> side had some excellent speakers from varying perspectives but we
> suspected
> going in that the vote was carved in stone months ago. Facts, general
> information and statistics that we've presented the city all along this
> past
> year have been ignored. Why would today be any different? The other side
> had few speakers but they already had everything they wanted in the
> ordinance.
>
> RPOA held a press conference yesterday morning at City Hall and had made
> arrangements to bring in "Laddie" and Bob Weatherwax from California to
> help
> us since they did such a good job defeating CA's AB 1634. But there was a
> problem with the airline and they couldn't make it. However we still
> received good media coverage on the radio and TV with our president Lynnie
> Bunten (holding a rescue Chihuahua) and Bilinda Marshall (with her rescued
> Malamute).
>
> Mention was made by one council member of thousands of emails and faxes
> received, even some from other countries! Special thanks to everyone who
> helped us in San Antonio - wherever you are. Get ready for the copycat
> fallout because this is the worst ordinance written to date and will
> certainly spread to other cities.
>
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