Zoo Elephants Becoming Mayoral Campaign Wedge Issue

As SF Appeal is reporting, the San Francisco Zoo has no plans to build (and cannot afford to build) any new sanctuary that would humanely house elephants, following on a 2005 decision by the city not to house elephants there after all the zoo's elephants croaked. This revelation comes on the heels of reports of a certain Rec and Park commissioner who wishes they'd get some elephants again because his grandchildren like them.

Anyhow, Chris Daly has used this opportunity to mention that this issue may come up again under a Bevan Dufty mayorship, because he plans to let the zoo remain a zoo, while Daly would transform it into an animal sanctuary.