Schwarzenegger Wants Strays Killed Faster

[RamboLiberal]

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=519&u=/ap/20040625/ap_on_re_us/schwarzenegger_animal_shelters_1&printer=1

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (news - web sites) wants to repeal a state law that requires animal shelters to hold stray dogs and cats for up to six days before killing them.

Instead, there would be a three-day requirement for strays. Other animals, including birds, hamsters, potbellied pigs, rabbits, snakes and turtles, could be killed immediately.

Schwarzenegger has told the state Legislature that the changes could save local governments that operate shelters up to $14 million.

An estimated 600,000 dogs and cats are put to death each year in California, including 34,000 in Los Angeles alone.

[The Stranger]

1. Schwarzenegger is an imbecile.

This makes me mad.

[LincolnMcGrath]

2. Terminate them all

[1monster]

3. Lovely man, Arnie, isn't he? What is it with these high profile

Republicans and their love affair with putting others (people and animals) to death?

And please note, I am not tarring all Republicans with that brush: I know several Repubs who rescue and care for stray animals.

[hlthe2b]

4. If there weren't Hitler comparisons before..... there surely will NOW!

Extermination---the FINAL SOLUTION!

Fortunately, I have more faith in my fellow animal lovers... Go to it, folks!

[WillParkinson]

5. Why not go after the people responsible for the strays?

Let's put THEM to death.

I don't mean the ones that accidentally get separated from Fido or Fedo. I mean those who intentionally dump them.

[evil_orange_cat]

6. somebody should euthenize him

poor animals :(

humans are evil!

[calimary]

7. Has he enlisted the "good" Dr. Frist for help?

What do they call Frist around the Senate - "Hello Kitty"?

[Zolok]

8. Since he has killing on the mind

to the exclusion of all else, when will the Cardinal Archbishop of Los Angeles announce that he is denying the Governor communion?


www.chimesatmidnight.blogspot.com

[kskiska]

9. What will Doris Day think?

She just came out yesterday as a Repug and * fan.

http://u.dailynews.com/Stories/0,1413,211~23521~2230661,00.html

[Hell Hath No Fury]

15. She's a devout Christian...

so I can see why she's a Bush supporter, but don't fuck with Doris when it comes to the animals. I have no doubt she will not support this.

[maxsolomon]

34. Doris is a german catholic girl from Cincinnati

just like the late marge schott. You have to be GOP, cultural ignorance & lack of empathy is in your blood.

[GoBlue]

10. Compassionate conservatism

$23.33 is too much to spare a pet? About what it costs to drive 70 miles in one of his Hummers.

[Coventina]

11. WTF??!?!?! DEATH IS THE ANSWER!!!!!!!!

Holy crap it is scary that the man's mind works that way!

Glad he isn't my gov. Yikes. What's next? The elderly? Infirm?

[Hell Hath No Fury]

12. Arnie just fucked up big time....

This will be his first smack-down by the people of California. There is no way we will go for this! As someone who has searched the shelters for a lost pet, I can tell you first hand sometimes those six days are needed.

Kill more quickly to save money! Yeah, that's the ticket! :eyes:

I am calling the Groper's office today and unloading on them for this assinine proposal. :mad:

[TahitiNut]

13. "All the animals are equal, but some are more equal than others."

Apparently Schwarzenegger is running for dog-catcher ... obviously in response to widespread "I wouldn't elect than man to be dog-catcher" opinions.

[mac56]

14. but but but

aren't the "pro-lifers" behind him?

[shanti]

16. ooh, the arnold did it now!

he is going to piss off a LOT of people. the animal rights folks will be on this like white on rice.

[wjsander]

17. Shit, Arnold! Why not just kill them all NOW?!

He IS the Governator!

[w4rma]

18. idiot. (nt)

[Hell Hath No Fury]

19. CONTACT THE GROPER...

Here you go, Californians -- make that call today!


Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger
State Capitol Building
Sacramento, CA 95814
Phone: [phone]
Fax: [phone]

To send an Electronic Mail please visit:
http://www.govmail.ca.gov

[gratuitous]

20. Ya know, Arnie, there's a lot of people just lingering around

Sucking up resources, not paying taxes. I'll bet California could save lots and lots of money if it just shuffled those folks off the MediCal rolls rather than carrying them. That would leave just the healthy and the wealthy. Oh, you could probably find it in your heart to save the totally hot ones, too?

[FizzFuzz]

31. Hey Arnie, save even more money at the Gov's Mansion :

corral those hotties and use their heads to swab your toilets.

let's kill the animals faster. you disgusting piece of misogynist Nazi shit.

and to think I liked him, when all I knew about was his heroic good guy image PUKEPUKE PUKE

[leesa]

21. Just think, if the Fundies get their way and we have millions of unwanted

babies hanging around, we may need to dispose of them in the same way.

[napi21]

22. I don't think Arnie realizes what he's stepped into here!

Do you remember the NATIONAL flap when that idiot pulled the little white dog from a lady's car and threw it into traffic? That was California too!

I'm a volunteer for a national rescue group, and I've already sent the link from the LA Times to our President. Arnie may have been told that the 3rd rail of politics was SS, or illegals, but he'll seen find out that you don't piss off the dog lovers of this country!

[alittlelark]

23. Or the cat lovers

or even the hampster lovers.

This is sick, especially when many groups are pushing towards no-kill shelters and mandatory spay/neuter laws in cities.

My state is way behind the progressive curve when it comes to animal welfare already.

;(

[bushisanidiot]

24. So in CA you have 3 days to find your lost pet or they die??!

good gawd. repukes are just plain EVIL!

[lectrobyte]

25. and what's up with rabbits and potbellied pigs being killed

immediately? Has he also announced plans on reducing the homeless population, and a new snack food called Soylent Green?

[nolabels]

29. First they came for the Dogs ?

http://www.d.umn.edu/~mohs0025/funny/

"In Germany, first they came for the communists, and I did not speak up, because I was not a communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak up because I was not a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist, then they came for the catholics and I didn't speak up because I was a protestant Then they came for me, and by that time no-one was left to speak up. --Pastor Martin Niemoller (victim of the Nazis)"

[kskiska]

26. Odd reactions to this from the Dark Side

Freeps support this position 100%, while L-dotters are horrified. I would have expected the reverse to be true.

[Cerridwen]

27. I just sent the link to my local paper

Thank you for the heads up.

I live in Nevada and it's not uncommon for "as California goes, so goes Nevada."

Hopefully, this >won't< become a reality in California or Nevada. Or anywhere else for that matter.

[Lindacooks]

28. Typical bloodthirsty Repuke

I hate his guts.

[kimchi]

30. What a jerk!

Has he ever lost a pet and spent 3 days walking around the 'hood looking for them?

Screw you, Ahnuld.

[hunter]

32. Close the shelters and give the animal control people guns!

Think how much money we could save if we did that. Hell, we could even use the meat in public school cafeterias and save even more money!

:nuke: :mad: :nuke: Just how sucky can our federal and state governments get when people like George W. Bush and Arnold Schwarzenegger are in charge?

[Frangible]

33. man wtf

Can't he find better things to do than put people's pets to death?

This is gonna go over like a lead brick.

[Moderator]

35. duplicate

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x645116