Zoo Elephants Becoming Mayoral Campaign Wedge Issue

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This is a statue/fountain at Disney World. Elephants in captivity are never this happy.
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.

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Maybe the elephants can stay at one of Daly's houses.

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Yeah, I'm not sure why Daly is involved in any discussion about future mayorships

WTF?! So that the Dhaliwal brothers and their sympathizers can be cruel to yet another animal? Put the city supervisors in that building and let us toss shit at them.
Say NO! to elephant slavery!

Take a look at the dismal enclosures of the rhinos and you'll get an idea of the fate that awaits any elephant.

Animal sanctuary in the chill and fog? Puh-leeze!

The polar bear seems to like it.

I went to the zoo once (never again). All I saw were some bugs in a 10 gallon take and a hornless rino ramming it's head against the wall for hours on end. Sad, sad, sad!

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Because San Francisco already does such a great job taking care of mentally ill people and poor people, of COURSE we should get in the animal sanctuary business.

Just don't get mad when you see wild animals camping out in your neighborhood or pooping on Newsom's doorstep.

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"Just don't get mad when you see wild animals... pooping on Newsom's doorstep."

That's an option? Shit, how much does that cost? Fuck it, I don't care-- shut down the schools, I want to see an elephant dropping giant turds on the gov's stoop.

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"I want to see an elephant dropping giant turds on the gov's stoop."

Do you know something we don't about the next election? Dear god, I hope not...

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