Last week the LA Times indicated that Mayor Villaraigossa is cutting the budget for LAAS; this is of course one huge step backwards in the quest to become no kill. Our sources reported to ADL-LA last Friday that Ed Boks has decided to implement these budget cuts by decreasing the hours that individuals can adopt animals and save lives. Of course not a PEEP was heard from Jimmy Blackman, the mayor's deputy that oversees LAAS, regarding this immoral and unethical cut back that will result in the increased murder of innocent animals. Both Ed Boks and Jimmy Blackman are so dead set on furthering their own careers and keeping their six figure salaries, they decided to send the shelter animals down the river once again, rather than stand up for these animals' lives and risk disagreeing with their "boss" Villaraigosa.

Our inside sources confirmed to ADL-LA that neither Boks nor Blackman said or did anything to try and change the Mayor's mind regarding cutting the LAAS budget. They didn't even offer Villaraigosa options to cut the budgets of other departments to prevent the deaths of innocent sentient beings or to lay out the facts that the city of LA can actually make money by NOT murdering these animals.

No Kill Solutions has made it very clear and has proven that a city can actually MAKE money by adoptions and saving the lives of lost and homeless animals; but because of the incompetence of Ed Boks and others the animals continue, like the one pictured above, to be murdered in fear and terror by fatal injection.

In addition, under Ed Boks shelter killings are UP over 24% in this first quarter alone. Please go to www.StopTheKilling.net and click on the "targets" page and then on Jimmy Blackman's file. Write to him and demand he do the right thing and get rid of Ed Boks and bring in No Kill Solutions to finally get our city on the road to No Kill.