The proposed sale had been deplored by artist Gerhard Richter in an open letter to the mayor of Leverkusen as «alarming» and
opposed by local taxpayers and friends of the museum, and a tentative strategy was devised to keep the institution afloat, for now.
The advocacy group commissioned its own phone survey using a
local survey company, and talked to 555 people at a total cost of just $ 350 (just 3 % of the cost endured
by taxpayers) and found that 65 % of respondents
opposed the ban on pit bulls, while only 29 % were in favor.