Buying off the Animal Activists
What do you do when you don't follow through on your campaign promises for an endorsement from the animal rights lobby? You hold an event such as below, and try to give them meat other than what you promised them to stop them from boycotting your It's a nice touch, and I support enforcement of animal cruelty laws, but this isn't what they were promised.
1:00 PM -- Mayor Villaraigosa, Councilman Tony Cardenas and LAPD Chief William Bratton will hold a news conference to mark the first arrest and felony conviction to result from the formation of the Animal Cruelty Task Force. North Central Animal Center, 3201 Lacey St.
Posted by Anonymous @ 11/01/2005 07:40:00 AM
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Cool picture. You see, we can learn something from our animal friends.
Stopping cruelty to animals is great. I'm all for the prosecution. Now how about stopping the City's cruel and unnecessary practice of killing tens of thousands of perfectly adoptable dogs and cats each year? Oh, I forgot: animals don't make campaign contributions....
Well said Walter!
Walter Moore is like an oil lobbyist at a climate change debate.
Outdated, wrong and really aligned with the devil.
11:44
So is Antonio, and He's Mayor right now. Maybe Walter Moore has the right idea
BAD moved, AV, this is going to just tick them off even more AND make them feel like they've got some sway over you.
You had two sensible choices - either keep a campaign promise (it could work for you sometime, give it a try... you never know), and can the guy they're all pissed at. What's one more head on the chopping block, anyway!
The guy probably isn't trying all that hard to be "no-kill" some other major cities have actually become net IMPORTERS or strays and rescue animals, their neutering is being handled so well. Give them a call, send them some puppies.
If you can send emergency personnel to New Orleans, you can certainly truck off pets to these other cities a whole lot cheaper.
OR, you could just have ignored the screams of the activists until the din became white noise to most people.
You did neither.
Who's giving you political advice these days, John Kerry?
In terms of the City's priorities, there are a few others that rank above the RADICAL animal rights activists priorities.
Like who? Those slow-and-steady-wins-the-race people who fight that dump in the valley with logic and common sense? The other group of people he lied to?
How about the people who flocked to AV because he was going to take over most or all of the appointments to LAUSD and set things right -- those other people that he lied to?
Why, if it's enough of a priority to spin lies during campaigning does it drop off the radar after the swearing in?
Because he doesn't need their votes anymore? Because now he has "Newsweek" and the like?
Because, you see... AV doesn't want people to be CRUEL to dozens of animals at a time -- that would be WRONG. Better to just turn them over to the city to KILL them HUNDREDS at a time).
Maybe this is a foretaste of his "homeless" policy, too?
I was at the press conference. There were tons of police officers everywhere. Only police officers, employees of the city and the media were allowed in to the event. I guess they feared ADL would be there asking them to fire the GM of Animal Services. ADL was not there but the media was there and they asked the Mayor if he was going to keep his promise and fire the GM. Antonio gave a very vague response. He basically did not answer the question. Who needs to fear ADL when the major media is now asking the Mayor the same question.
Oil lobbyist at a climate change debate? Excuse me, but I was the FIRST mayoral candidate to addresss the city's needless slaughter of pets, and the ONLY candidate who vowed to make our shelters no-kill immediately. I was the only candidate who spoke out against Guerdon Stuckey at public hearings BEFORE he was appointed -- appointed with the votes of Villaraigosa and Parks, by the way. I was also the only candidate who -- thnaks to the input of people who have actually rescued animals -- set forth a specific plan to achieve the no-kill objective. That plan called for, among other things, a new ordinance to require landlords to accept tenants with pets, subject to various reasonable restrictions (e.g., noise limits). So whoever questioned my bona fides on animal policy is apparently uninformed. Besides, the devil and I went our separate ways months ago.
Walter, after you LOST you supported Hahn who was against most of what you supported. Not only are you are flip-flopper, but you're a hypocrite and a lying wanna-be politician. You supported the anti-Hahn campaign then you joined Hahn? When I saw that announcement I thought there was just someone else named Walter Moore. I'm amazed Hahn included you in a PR. If he knew how you helped orchestrate the anti-hahn movement with ADL, I doubt he would have done that.
You were on the animal issue because it was a small issue with a fanatical fringe element. You worked hand in hand with ADL, used them to get what you wanted. You had them pack the room at the Chula convention so you could get the convention vote. The real animal people voted for Villaraigosa then Hertzberg. Had the zealots not wasted their votes on you, it would have been Hertzberg and Villaraigosa in the final campaign. Villaraigosa still would have won. You would have lost no matter what.
Right, Walter. Your were the first. You're important.
Can we now go back to ignoring you?
You're right -- Villaraigosa is SO much better than Hahn, isn't he? I mean, he's stopped the killing -- oh, wait, he hasn't, has he? And he kept his promise to fire Stuckey -- oh, wait, he changed his mind on that one, too, didn't he? He's stopped the LAX boondoggle -- nope, didn't do that, either. When the choice was down to Hahn vs. Villaraigosa, well, at least Hahn was smart enough to pass the bar exam. Was he my first choice for mayor? No. Second, third? No. As for my getting the endorsement, I got it fair and square. People who supported Villaraigosa and Hertzberg before the conference then continued to support them afterwards. And you see what you got: a mayor who is doing exactly what he did his entire career to stop the killing of animals, namely, nothing. Congratulations on your brilliant decision to support him!
P.S. I neither "used" nor "packed the room" with ADL people. Protecting animals was in my platform long before I ever heard of that particular group. Nor am I sure there are more than two people in that group. There are, however, plenty of people who want animals treated humanely, and who knew, from the other candidates' track records, that they wouldn't lift a finger to stop the killing.
Walter Moore for City Council in 2007!!
Walter Moore for City Council in 2007!!
Walter Moore for City Council in 2007!!
Walter Moore for City Council in 2007!!
I wouldn't say Moore for Mayor in 2009, He needs to start small and use the Council as a platform, just like our current mayor did.
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