Pasadena City Councilman Steve Madison, who’s known here for his extreme desire to see Pit Bulls banned, recently had some disparaging words for bigoted Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling. This, taken from a photo caption showing himself at game 5 of the Clippers and Warriors series…

Wearing black to support the players and to oppose that idiot and his bigotry. 30 years after Al Campanis. It’s outrageous that that mindset still exists. Go Clips!

“That mindset”? Just curious, what mindset do you speak of?

Do you mean placing a preconceived and sweeping opinion upon an entire group of individuals that is not based on reason, evidence or actual experience? That mindset? Do you mean scapegoating an entire group of individuals for crimes that they didn’t commit, and based solely on how they appear? That mindset? Do you mean having an unreasonable attitude that is highly resistant to reality, rational influence, facts or science? That mindset?

Because it’s clear to me that Mr. Madison cannot seem to grasp that his own abhorrent views towards Pit Bulls are highly prejudicial, and are being spewed by him quite consistently after he uses the same process of thought.

These quotes were made available to numerous media outlets in the days following the collapse of his proposed legislation, which was meant to target and vilify all dogs deemed to be Pit Bulls…

Councilman Steve Madison, from 1/27/2014:

I don’t want my kids or parents or anybody in between to have to deal with that risk. People say they have perfectly nice Pit Bulls and I don’t doubt that, but that’s like me saying I have a rocket launcher in my attic but I don’t use it.”

Councilman Steve Madison, from 1/28/2014:

The folks that were there, they have this notion that there is something called discrimination against particular dog breeds, but there really isn’t. Fully automatic machine guns don’t have any right to be discriminated against, they are inherently dangerous and that’s why we forbid them.

Councilman Steve Madison, from 1/29/2014:

This is going to happen, that was the whole point of my work on this issue over the last couple of years. They are just a time bomb. They are killing machines.

Councilman Steve Madison, from 1/29/2014:

I’ve been working on Pit Bulls for years, everybody says ‘let’s just study the issue.’ We don’t need to study this anymore. This is a clear and present danger and we need to act now. I’ll be happy to discuss spay and neutering parakeets and lizards and goldfish and all the rest, but right now those aren’t the threats. The threats are Pit Bulls.