"Peanut's Law," or a New York Pol's Publicity Stunt?
LI Assembly rep Jake Blumencranz is making a show of moving his bill through Albany but has ignored calls to strengthen it.
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It’s May 24, 2025. This is The Weekly Poop, Limited Collectible Weekend Edition.
This week, state Assembly Member Jake Blumencranz, of Long Island, is making noise on social media about Peanut’s Law, a bill Blumencranz introduced ostensibly to spare more New Yorkers the pain of watching with no recourse as their pets are confiscated and put to death by the state for reasons the state can not articulate beyond “Them’s the rules.”
A little background: Peanut was an internet-famous squirrel, saved from the streets of New York City to become the …
