The Louisville Metro Council over reacting to 2 Pit Bull attacks in the city, decided to pass an ordinance to reduce the possibility of more attacks in the city.
Problem is they had the HSUS help them to write the ordinance. Well 9 REVISIONS, and several votes later the city passed an ordinace RIFE with problems and denial or rights, which punishes LAW ABIDING citizens.
The worst part of the Ordinance is the Mandatory Spay rule.
If your dog manages to get out and get picked up by the Dog Warden, then to get the dog back you must have the dog spayed or neutered.. NO EXCEPTIONS. The ordinance also targets the annual Louisville Dog Show with rules and regulations that targeted the dogs. While the portions of the ordinance that SPECIFICALLY targeted the dogs from outside the city was removed, the council has a bad reputation for coming back later to add MORE to an ordinance. Louisville passed a smoking ordinance that allowed restaurants to add EXPENSIVE smoking rooms then came back a year later to ban even special ventilation, costing some restaurants Thousands of Dollars for investing in the smoking rooms.
This Louisville Dog ordinance was so important that Wayne Chapell of the HSUS came to the city on 2 occasions to promote it.
The end result is an ordinance that takes the rights of Pet Owners in the City.
Mayor Abramson was at one time one of the best Mayors in the country. His latest reign as the Mayor though has been a disaster.
While he is an awesome recruiter of business to the city, the cities infrastructure, police, and emergency services have suffered greatly, and worse the murder rate in the city has sky rocketed as have UNSOLVED HOMICIDES with almost 60% of Homicides in the City NOT being prosecuted within a year, and Cold Cases, languishing.
The "Mayor for Life" as some call him, is becoming more and more liberal. His actions have denied rights to people in the city, and he is more and more making decisions like he is KING. An ineffective Republican Party in Jefferson County has been unable to mount any significant attack on the man who Illegally used Imminent Domain to move thousands of families to double the size of Louisville's Airport.
While the airport has helped to make Louisville more attractive to business, it destroyed entire neighborhoods and Court Decisions later agreed with residents whose land was taken for Private Business that they should not have been forced to leave.
Jim Dicken
