METRO wasting money…
February 11th, 2008
Here:
And Metro, the regional government that manages the zoo, may seek as much as $90 million for a bigger elephant habitat, new veterinary hospital and new zoo education campus.
You are seriously about to ask taxpayers to pay $90 million… for elephants??
Now, look, I totally support your captive breeding program of Columbia Basin pygmy rabbits. I think the money spent on the condor breeding program is probably better spent elsewhere.
But now you want millions more to build a better home for a bunch of elephants? In Portland, Oregon?
Is that a joke?
And they will use whatever tactics they can to push this through:
Adding to the push in Portland is the fact that general elections draw more Democrats, especially in presidential election years, and they generally “are much more willing to fund progressive causes,” said Portland Commissioner Sam Adams. “That’s why everybody aims to November.”
How clever of quick-to-anger Sam Adams, and others, to take advantage of the peculiarities of different election cycles to get their taxes through!
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