Yvette248 Member Username: Yvette248
Post Number: 762 Registered: 10-2006
| Posted on Saturday, July 21, 2007 - 10:09 am: | |
Please, please, please tell me all the fuss about Ron Kagan wasn't backroom politics because he sent Winky and Wanda to California! Stance on Wanda and Winky brought trouble for Kagan Wanda and Winky didn't just strike a nerve with their adoring public. The debate in 2004 over where the Detroit Zoo's aging elephants belonged got zoo Director Ron Kagan -- who said elephants shouldn't be kept in cold-weather zoos -- into trouble with a national zoo organization and with a colleague from another zoo who hit him during a professional meeting, according to documents obtained by the Free Press. http://freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll /article?AID=/20070721/NEWS03/ 707210334/1001/NEWS |
Mcp001 Member Username: Mcp001
Post Number: 2856 Registered: 11-2003
| Posted on Saturday, July 21, 2007 - 10:21 am: | |
I strongly suspect that this has more to do with the tax hike that they'll be ramming down our throats yet again next year (Great shades of Prop K!). |
Ramcharger Member Username: Ramcharger
Post Number: 379 Registered: 05-2006
| Posted on Saturday, July 21, 2007 - 1:11 pm: | |
Huh? |
Mcp001 Member Username: Mcp001
Post Number: 2864 Registered: 11-2003
| Posted on Saturday, July 21, 2007 - 2:15 pm: | |
The backers of The Detroit Zoo are quietly pushing behind the scenes for a regional tax hike to support the zoo. They are trying to put on a happy face, and show that everything is running smoothly, in order to help rationalize that the money generated from these taxes won't be misspent. |
Mw2gs Member Username: Mw2gs
Post Number: 268 Registered: 03-2005
| Posted on Saturday, July 21, 2007 - 3:30 pm: | |
Guess he actually believed the lies he told. Making waves in a professional organiztion with false credentials is just plain dumb. |
Ramcharger Member Username: Ramcharger
Post Number: 381 Registered: 05-2006
| Posted on Saturday, July 21, 2007 - 5:22 pm: | |
Oh, ok. |
Yvette248 Member Username: Yvette248
Post Number: 773 Registered: 10-2006
| Posted on Saturday, July 21, 2007 - 6:49 pm: | |
I'm sorry Mcp, but your statement has absolutely NOTHING to do with the news article. The article "hinted" that someone with a grudge did some background checks on Kagan - and then came the miraculous discovery that he never received his Phd. |