Detroit Zoo Closing?!?
Detroit was actually sparkling and getting a new image when the Super Bowl came to town. The city is a shithole? Not so, in the eyes of people who came into town. Now that the national eye has looked elsewhere, Detroit's city council re-initialized corruption along with the mayor.
The Detroit Zoo is closing, unless it can be funded. What a shame. One of the oldest zoos in the country would close due to lack of funding, and it won't receive funding from outside the city because the council has an ego. Kwame won't discuss it because for some retarded reason, he's in Africa. (Way to spend our tax dollars frivously, you dumb bastard!) Either way, if nothing is done, the Zoo shuts down on May 1, 2006.
Does anyone remember the blue elephant keys you bought and out in boxes to hear audio about exhibits? I still have mine somewhere....
DetroitFunk has some great zoo shots here, and DetroitBlog has a couple of posts pertaining to the issue. WDIV has a section on their site to try and save the zoo.
Oh, now Kwame is phoning in and asking the council to re-consider the proposal. (article from freep.com | proposal [.pdf])
You can contact public officials about the fate of the zoo. Here's how:
- Office of the Mayor
313-224-3400
Council members voting yes on transferring the Zoo to the Zoological Society:
- Kenneth V. Cockrel, Jr.
313-224-4505
CockrelK.CNCL.Council@kcockrel.ci.detroit.mi.us - Sheila Cockrel
313-224-1337
S-Cockrel_mb@ckrl.ci.detroit.mi.us
Council members voting no:
- Monica Conyers
313-224-4530
ConyersM@cncl.ci.detroit.mi.us - Barbara-Rose Collins
313-224-1299
Collins_MB@cncl.ci.detroit.mi.us - Brenda Jones
313-224-1245
Bjones_MB@cncl.ci.detroit.mi.us - Kwame Kenyatta
313-224-1198
K-Kenyatta_MB@cncl.ci.detroit.mi.us - Martha Reeves
313-224-4545
(no email on file) - Alberta Tinsley-Talabi
313-224-1645
A_Talabi_mb@atwpo.ci.detroit.mi.us - JoAnn Watson
313-224-4535
WatsonJ@cncl.ci.detroit.mi.us
For state lawmakers:
- http://senate.michigan.gov/SenatorInfo/find-your-senator.htm
- http://house.michigan.gov/find_a_rep.asp
Fuck it, open all the cages and leave. Let the animals destroy Royal Oak and Ferndale....no great loss.
i knew that martha reeves was no good. once she got rid of the vandella's she went straight into the shit house.
What's fucked up is that the zoo does not have a revenue problem; the city has a revenue problem.
Fucking crank yanking worthless petty city politicos.
Each and every one of them has no shame.
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