Hi. I am Tucson’s Ghost Giraffe. Remember me? I was the one they fed oleanders to.

The Reid Park Zoo is a really cool place and I hope you come and visit my friends there.

The zoo was originally started by Gene Reid, Tucson Parks Director, without approval from City Hall. He started off with a prarie dog village and it sort of grew. My channeler here admits to donating a possum to Gene for the zoo.

The zoo is one of the best things Tucson does….even if they can’t figure out that oleander is poisonous. I blame City Hall for that.

I wonder how many city elected officials and top city staff have ever actually been to the zoo? I’ll bet a whole bunch of them have never seen our zoo. We’re not that big a deal to City Hall like rainbow bridges and fantasy aquariums.

And that’s symbolic of the problems with your city…your elected officials and city staff have their heads in the clouds spending hundreds of millions on stuff like Rio Nuevo

But something that really makes Tucson a much better place to live…our zoo…gets short shrift at City Hall.

If you haven’t been to the zoo please come on down…you’ll love the place…..and you’ll ask why they don”t get rid of that golf course over east of us and expand our zoo to make it even a better place. Imagine giraffes and zebras and elephants grazing on what are now the fairways.

But City Hall would have to hire a bunch of consultants and spend a hundred million dollars deciding the zoo was more important than 18 holes of golf in the city.

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