Important Points to Make When Contacting Council Member Johnson

Email Barbara Johnson
Phone: (612) 673-2204

*There is nothing “extreme” about wanting to end cruelty to animals

*By taking a simple vote, the City Council could make great strides for animal protection in Minneapolis, and they should do it. Holding a public hearing and taking a Council vote on the issue requires little to no energy or time for the majority of Council Members. It need not distract from other issues they wish to focus on.

*Animal circuses are not just “forms of revenue”, as she calls them in the article. They are archaic entertainment that causes suffering to animals and should not be tolerated, no matter how much money they bring to the Target Center. If finances are the bottom line, we might as well bring dog fighting and cock fighting into the Target Center to make money.

*Thousands of Minneapolis residents have voiced their support for this amendment. It is the duty of the City Council Members to respond to the voices of their constituents. Minneapolis has the opportunity to join 27 other US cities that have prohibited or severely restricted performing animal acts.

*If we never took any action for fear of being viewed as “extreme”, think of the moral handcuffs we’d put on ourselves. Most advances throughout time have at one point or another been viewed as “extreme”. Instead, the City Council of Minneapolis should do what is right, what the citizens of the city want, and allow themselves to be viewed as leaders in the movement towards an ethical treatment of animals.

Email Barbara Johnson
Phone: (612) 673-2204