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Matthew J. Cunningham

Anaheim’s Exotic Animal Ban Could Have Outlawed Rally Monkey

File this one under the law of unintended consequences: the ban on exotic animals that was proposed by Councilwoman Lorri Galloway — and pulled from the agenda just minutes before last week’s Anaheim City Council meeting — would, if enatced, have outlawed the Rally Monkey, the famous mascot of the Angels baseball team.

That, according to a reliable source, was the conclusion of Angels’ lawyers.

Galloway’s ban was directed at Ringling Bro. and Barnum & Bailey’s Circus, which comes to the city-owned Honda Center every year foor a 10-day run, generating $1.3 million in revenue for the city — not to mention delighting thousands and children and their parents.

Why would it have also outlawed the Rally Monkey? You can read more here at this post on the Anaheim Blog, a new project I am involved in.