Steve Lowery at OC Weekly did some follow-up on my story about Nativo Lopez's labors to entertwine MAPA with the bloody underground sport of cockfighting. Mr. Lowery reports that the attention attracted by my post and Gustavo's coverage have had an effect:
Though it’s difficult to question the logic of a person/weather system who believes that laws regarding a “sport” where small animals outfitted with tiny razors fight to the death amount to “atrocities,” the fact is that MAPA may have already retrenched from its earlier, Lopez-inspired position of support. Apparently Arellano and Jubal’s pieces made it around the Internet. Now the MAPA website, which once called SB156 “unnecessary” and “mean-spirited,” does not mention cockfighting at all.
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