Comments for Governor proposes closing Clear Lake, Anderson Marsh State Parks at http://lakeconews.com , comment 1 to 14 out of 14 comments http://lakeconews.com Sat, 07 Nov 2009 20:31:43 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://lakeconews.com/content/view/2892/919/#comment-2814 A personal thanks must go out to every single mouth breathing knucklehead in california who first of all, in 2003, swallowed hook line and sinker the bait that was rigged so skillfully and twitched in front of their noses, that put a recall on the ballot and gave us this deluded, self serving corporatist of an executive leader in California. Here are the relevant october 2003 results for Lake County Recall question Yes -9,799 No - 8,149 Governor Bustamente - 5137 Schwarzenegger - 8,003 http://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/sov/2003_special/contents.htm I would further like to acknowledge those knuckleheads and all the rest of the of the sheep who carried this disaster forward in November of 2006 and pulled the lever for, and are now personally responsible for this craptacular state of affairs we now find ourselves in. Here are the november 2006 voter turnout stats for lake county Angelides - 7,031 Schwarzenegger - 10,930 Noonan - 255 Camejo - 615 Olivier - 323 Jordan - 275 http://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/sov/2006_general/contents.htm So it appears that cud chewing ovines, who dont have enough sense to be able to tell the difference between an action figure and a thinking human being, and sadly walk among us here in Lake County are in the majority.... Thanks again to spineless Democrats, who want to \'get along\' and \'be polite\'. Elections have consquences...and here they are in spades. [u]If anybody thinks this has anything to do with raising taxes you havent been paying attention [/u](color me amazed) [u] Please pick up the clue phone......massive privatization is going to be proposed.[/u] An extra special hat tip to all the Grover Norquist enablers out there, we are now officially drowning. Getting all excised over the state park closure proposal is the first step, and a nice diversion for our anger but I would submit to you that services to our families, funds for our first responders, monies for infrastructure and resource delivery,the care of sick, our elderly and the education of our children from pre-school to post secondary will all be on the auction block in the upcoming months. Watch for calls for more \'charter schools\', the privatization of Healthy Families, Medi-cal services, CalWorks, and on and on all as a sop to our corporate masters. We will be faced with no win choices - hand our services and infrastructure and public spaces over to profit making entities or do without - oh yeah I forgot, ownership society ---- we\'re on our own. For anyone attending any upcoming BOS meetings, bringing a gas mask is recommended. The quantities of noxious fumes that will be spewing from the lips of our three favorite triangulators,from Dist 1,2 and 4, and our \'get the government off my back\' neanderthal who represents district 5, as they try to position themselves on the decisions that will have to be made this year, two of whom will be shoring up re-election bids, will measure off the charts. My personal thanks again to every one of those four, who worked hard to alienate our state legislators in 2005 by voting to send a \'no confidence\' letter to Assemblywoman Berg and then State Senator Chesbro. If we expect advocacy in Sacramento, this does not appear to be the best course of action june 2005 http://tiny.cc/MBNLmc july 2005 http://tiny.cc/w59g5 Is there any wonder as to why we get no respect in Sacramento? - taxismom Mon, 14 Jan 2008 08:11:33 +0100 http://lakeconews.com/content/view/2892/919/#comment-2813 lead into ruins by the terminator. Think he\'s just acting? There are no retakes in real life.....hummmm, Don\'t think he played a governor role before. If you care about your state, get a voice and vote for those with a track record in governing.....He\'ll be back!....er um a please not another actor! :idea: - ICU2 Mon, 14 Jan 2008 05:17:24 +0100 http://lakeconews.com/content/view/2892/919/#comment-2812 Actually, I called the state parks office on Friday, and made a very specific request for just the info you\'re talking about, but they didn\'t get back to me. I also tried calling the local parks supervisor, and no call back from him, either. It looks like they may have been in Sac trying to do damage control. I\'ll call again on Monday and make another request, and will write a followup article as soon as I can with that information. My guess is that Anderson Marsh has very little overhead thanks to its volunteer staff, but CLSP certainly will have more. What\'s interesting is that CLSP brings in a lot more money than many North Coast parks -- including Armstrong Woods, which has about eight times the visitors as CLSP. The thing to keep is mind is, this probably is a worst-case scenario budget that the governor doesn\'t expect to go through. But rural counties like ours will likely take the brunt of the bad stuff if the citizens don\'t rally. And I\'m already seeing efforts on behalf of citizens to do just that. - elarson Sun, 13 Jan 2008 14:28:17 +0100 http://lakeconews.com/content/view/2892/919/#comment-2808 change it! - socolake Sun, 13 Jan 2008 08:36:15 +0100 http://lakeconews.com/content/view/2892/919/#comment-2807 This is an excellent article. What I need to know is what these parks cost to maintain. I feel that both parks are able to support themselves without additional user fees. I also wonder why Napa was able to avoid park closures. Bothe and Robert Louis Stevenson parks in Napa operate similar to the Lake County parks. Maybe you could use a PIA request to find out which parks generate revenue that matches their operating budgets. I would be interested in knowing if the proposed park closures are related to their ability to balance their budgets or if there other reasons. - socolake Sun, 13 Jan 2008 08:20:15 +0100 http://lakeconews.com/content/view/2892/919/#comment-2805 of this fiscal mess our state is into. I think if we get rid of those East Coast transplants that have infiltrated our political systems and stick to native sons and daughters, we might d/c some of the spendthrift ways of mexifornia even if it means we split the state and get rid of the ones that pander to illegals, etc. with our tax money. Yeah, let the casinos flourish if it means we will really get a big chunk of change for the treasury. Thanks for the good reporting, Liz. - lcsage Sun, 13 Jan 2008 07:34:28 +0100 http://lakeconews.com/content/view/2892/919/#comment-2801 You can\'t spend more than you take in and borrow for the short fall, not save for that rainy day without problems. Its driven by politics, Thats just the way it is. - James Sun, 13 Jan 2008 04:22:48 +0100 http://lakeconews.com/content/view/2892/919/#comment-2800 [quote]by Randy Bayne http://bayneofblog.blogspot.com/ Governor Schwarzenegger release a budget today that everyone can hate. Of course, if you know anything about California politics, you know this isn\'t the real budget. It is the annual exercise that the state\'s Constitution demands; a proposal for a balanced budget from the Governor. Now the work begins. In the merry month of May the Governor will release a revision, the Legislature will tear it apart and in June will watch a deadline pass as they talk some more. By July a second deadline will pass and sometime in August or September (maybe) we\'ll have a budget that won\'t look anything like what Schwarzenegger proposed today. Then again, everything could go along on time and we\'ll have a budget on July 1. Yeah, right... Today\'s exercise of budget release and Democratic response was just that, an exercise. The Governor knows that what he is proposing will not be what comes out at the end, and Speaker Fabian Nuñez and Senate President Pro-Tem Don Perata know it too. That\'s why their response to the budget was so reserved. There will be a lot of shouting about suspension of Proposition 98 and cuts to Health and Human Services, but those cuts aren\'t likely to materialize. Not on the scale that Schwarzenegger wants. It would be devastating to California\'s poor and kids requiring teacher layoffs and the loss of vital services. Like I said, today\'s budget proposal was done because it has to be done, not because this proposal has any connection to reality. But it will get people excited.[/quote] [i]Contact Patty Berg\'s field office in Ukiah at 463-5770 Senator Wiggins Ukiah office at 468-8914[/i] - taxismom Sat, 12 Jan 2008 18:14:51 +0100 http://lakeconews.com/content/view/2892/919/#comment-2799 According to a December article by Jim Sanders of the Sacramento Bee, legislators received a 2.75-percent raise at the start of December 2007, which amounted to $3,110 per year. Attorney General Jerry Brown and Superintendent of Public Instruction Jack O\'Connell each received 5-percent pay raises, amounting to close to $9,000 per year. Four Senate and nine Assembly members declined the raises, as did Gov. Schwarzenegger, Sanders reported. Those who declined them did not include our North Coast legislators, according to a list published by the Sac Bee. California legislators are the highest paid in the United States. Sanders said that between 1995 and 2005, California\'s legislators received no raises, but since 2005 have had their salaries rise by more than $17,000. "Besides their $116,208 salary, legislators are entitled to roughly $34,000 annually in tax-free per diem for living expenses while in Sacramento," Sanders wrote. There are 119 lawmakers and 12 constitutional officers in the state government. To see the full story visit www.sacbee.com/111/story/537646-p2.html. - elarson Sat, 12 Jan 2008 15:41:36 +0100 http://lakeconews.com/content/view/2892/919/#comment-2798 I\'d like to know, how much the raise our legislators voted for themselves amounts to in total? When was there last raise? A bunch of fat cats passing each others pet projects. Our parks being chosen must come down to the amount of revenue gained per year by keeping them open is lower than 230 other state parks. It\'s trickle down time, another casualty of Bush\'s war! :evil: - firecarp Sat, 12 Jan 2008 15:08:39 +0100 http://lakeconews.com/content/view/2892/919/#comment-2797 Doesn\'t this go against all those ads the gubinator starred in promoting California Tourism? \"Come to California, there won\'t be anything to do but stay in 5 star hotels. Leave the kids at home.\" This will cost jobs not only at the parks, but for the support services outside the individual parks. Isn\'t Lake County\'s jobless rate high enough? - Rhyschenda Sat, 12 Jan 2008 14:36:45 +0100 http://lakeconews.com/content/view/2892/919/#comment-2795 Sounds pretty unfair to me that they propose closing our Counties only two State parks. Where is our representation?????? I imagine the State needs the money to feed, clothe, educate and put roofs over the heads of all the illegal aliens that keep coming here!!! Maybe they\'ll make camps for the homeless out of them!!! I repeat - where is our representation? :x - helenemw Sat, 12 Jan 2008 10:37:23 +0100 http://lakeconews.com/content/view/2892/919/#comment-2788 across the board cut in State parks equates to a 100% closure of State parks in Lake County? You\'re right yellowwing, we are being trussed up to accommodate a tax increase, but we\'ve known for a long time its either increase taxes or reduce services. Ahnuld is not done playing politician so it will be interesting watching (in a morbid way)what else gets cut in lieu of tax hikes. - Donna Christopher Sat, 12 Jan 2008 08:16:22 +0100 http://lakeconews.com/content/view/2892/919/#comment-2787 I believe this is just the first step to getting the people of California to agree to an increase in taxes. Between the parks, the poor and the early release of prisoners we are being set up. The budget process needs to change. Unless there is a guarantee of revenue the legislature should not budget to spend reviews they do not have. Obviously who ever is guesstimating isn\'t doing a good job. There should not be budget items with a guarantee of a revenue if the total revenue available does not appear. If California is going to release \"low risk\" offenders, why bother prosecuting? - yellowwing Sat, 12 Jan 2008 07:47:26 +0100