$700,000 in Portland can buy you a $380,000,000 bond.
Quite a steal.
Quite a steal for the construction firms. For the consultants they pay to sell it as a good thing. For the Metro councilors they buy with campaign donations.
Quite a steal of our tax money. Of wild animals’ freedoms.
The zoo can savor the loot for as long as it lasts. For it’s not going to last long.
For, public perception has been changing. From a 60-40 vote of 2008 bond, more people are seeing through the zoo deception and this bond barely scraped by at 55-45.
After spending $700,000. After flooding our mailboxes with their ransom demands. After siccing AZA’s disinformation on our voters.
Well, we aren’t going anywhere. We’ll be around for the wild animals whose freedom they’re selling as tickets, shamelessly making a business out of it. Greenwashing their dirty business by labeling it conservation.
We’ll be a thorn on their side. Our passion will beat their greed. And that’s a promise to the wild animals they’ve imprisoned.
Join us in freeing the zoo elephants to a sanctuary.