[pct-l] cal state park users get used

[Lindsey Sommer]

This is just appalling. I'm from Mendocino County where at least 4 parks
were slated to close (including the very popular and beautiful Russian
Gulch, Jug Handle SP, and Hendy Woods). The entire community pulled
together and saved 3 of them so far. This news is just disgusting.

Way to go California...

On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 2:52 PM, Timothy Nye <timpnye at gmail.com> wrote:

> The really heart warming part of this story is that the department's
> headquarter's employees were at the same time illegally selling back
> their vacation time through a coordinated system of requests made
> only by post-it notes so that there wouldn't be any evidence.  Nice going
> Sacramento Bee for finding this.  Sadly, this is may be only the tip of the
> ice berg.
>
> Move along, nothing to see here.  It took 48 hours after the freedom of
> information act request, made in conjunction with the vacation scam, for
> the department to "discover" the 12 year old slush fund of tax payer
> dollars.  But, hey, 54,000,000 isn't much.  What's all the excitment
> about.  Just need to keep the correct priorities in mind; and it turns out
> that doesn't happen to be providing parks and recreation to the suckers,
> er, public.
>
> Countless bake sales, fund raising drives by school children, non-profit
> partnerships, increases in local taxes later and we now know where the real
> people not paying their fair share are.  Sorry if I sound bitter, but I got
> scammed by a door to door solicitation to keep Sugar Loaf Ridge Regional
> Park, among others, open.
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