But this piece of news could come back to bite him in the butt - figuratively or literally. All news is good news when you’re a candidate desperate for publicity. If Cox had really wanted to impress Californians who cherish wildlife, he could have talked about ways to protect it - such as getting rid of the second generation rat poisons that are killing animals, or building more highway wildlife crossings.Ĭox, no doubt, is chortling about all the press generated by the bear's appearance. Today, the only place you'll find them in California's great outdoors is on state flags blowing in the wind.
The Kodiak, the largest bear in the world, is a subspecies of the grizzly bear, a sad reminder of when ranchers and hunters in California were allowed to slaughter grizzlies into extinction - one of the state’s most disgraceful periods of wildlife mismanagement. It’s ironic that Cox chose a Kodiak bear to bring along. Cox?) Bears are not domesticated animals that you can or should keep as pets. Whether animals are raised in the wild or captivity, wild species remain wild. This is an animal that has been raised in captivity.” As Judie Mancuso, the founder of the political advocacy group Social Compassion in Legislation, wrote in a blast email, “The last thing we want to see is a 1,000 pound bear dragged around the state.”Ĭox told the Washington Post, “This is not a wild animal. Like that’s really the image a 65-year-old man wants to go for when he’s running for office these days?Īnimal welfare advocates were rightly appalled by the idea that anyone would force a bear to be a political prop. Cox, on the other hand, deliberately gave his bus tour the hokey handle “Meet the Beast,” which is supposed to play off Cox's promise to be a tough beast of a governor. Gavin Newsom should the recall campaign succeed.
Tag, as the 9-year-old bear is called, had no choice but to be rented out for the kickoff of Republican John Cox’s longshot bid to replace Gov.
So, a Kodiak bear walked into a politician's campaign news conference in Sacramento on Tuesday, and I don’t know whom to pity more - the bear or the politician. John Cox, Republican recall candidate for California governor, begins his statewide "Meet the Beast" bus tour on Tuesday with Tag, a Kodiak brown bear, at Miller Regional Park in Sacramento.
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