Last night we had numerous public commenting members of the community that came out to support dogs and Pit Bulls.

As you can see from the above video, Steve Madison immediately discarded everything that I said during my public comment, while at the same time pulling up hate group DogsBite.org and their absurdist statistics to counter me from the bench. He also claimed that he had been “responding to some of my emails,” which isn’t really that accurate. He responded to 1 email and wrote back: “Where in Pasadena do you live?” I responded back that I wasn’t comfortable giving what I deemed to be a vindictive politician my personal address, but that I was in District 6. To see the documentation that I was referencing above please click here and here.

I’d like to also commend Councilman John Kennedy for coming out and stating his opposition to breed-discriminatory laws, and also say a huge thanks to both the other folks that showed up to speak and the many that sat in the crowd to support. I gotta say, all of the public comments were excellent but I most enjoyed Stephanie’s commentary which was so powerfully personal and yet delivered without contempt or anger.

Below is some video of many of us outside of the Council chambers, with a Pit Bull service dog named Atticus and a 2-year-old resident whose best friend is a Pit Bull.

I cannot stress this enough, and have before, but it is IMPERATIVE that the rescue community and dog-loving members of society show up to oppose Steve Madison, and more importantly discrimination. Since the issue will be an agendized item for the upcoming 1/27 meeting that means that the public comments will not be condensed to a 20 minute period. If 100 people show up and want to speak, all 100 people get to speak. They will very likely be voting on the ordinance during this same meeting. Please educate yourselves on what’s happening in Pasadena and turnout for all of our dogs and for common sense. If you’d like to attend then please check out the created Facebook event and plan accordingly. It’s also advised to email the Council members leading up to this meeting, and all email addresses are provided at the link for the Facebook event. One of the best and most comprehensive documents out there to oppose this legislation is something that the American Preservation Dog Society put together, and you can get that right here.