More Info on Bruce Kranz Opponents / Why the CRA Will Likely Endorse Kranz
Posted by Aaron Park on March 09, 2008 at 05:20 PM
The Tahoe Sierra-Sun had an opening article on Jennifer Montgomery:
The Article is LINKED HERE
A good look at Jennifer Montgomery is contained in the following excerpts:
Montgomery said she has no experience in politics, but contends that isn’t necessarily a bad thing. Instead, she draws on a wide background and 17 years living on Donner Summit.
Montgomery’s goals include examining the affects of climate change on the area’s economy, implementing a night-sky standard for lighting, re-examining public transportation in the Tahoe Basin, and insuring new development is both responsible and green, she said.
After talking to a few people around the area, they have all told me that Montgomery started criticizing Bruce Kranz and has never met him. I will have to get a look at her voter registration history – as in if she is still a registered Dem or Grn.
As to Bob Houston: I was contacted a few weeks ago before he announced. I asked two questions of the person who called me: the first was will he (Houston) support the pay raise thing? The answer is held in his announcement speech/release that says he won’t take a salary at all.
The second was will he support local tax increase measures? The answer was – “I think he will be with you 75% of the time”. (Meaning 25% of the time he will endorse bonds and parcel taxes)
An excerpt from the article in the Bee regarding his announcement:
Houston, 71, founder of Corporate Advocates, a government affairs firm, said he isn’t part of any “political machine.”
“I will be an independent and experienced voice for the people of Placer County,” he said in a news release.
Later research has determined that Bob Houston is also a man of means and several I talked to see Robert Weygant’s fingerprints on his candidacy. At least two I spoke with think that Houston is going to write himself a nice-sized check to start his campaign.
Kranz, Uhler and Rocky Rockholm make up the 3-2 Conservative majority on the Board of Supervisors.
I would not look for much input from Kranz on the 4th Congressional race as he now has his hands full.
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How are we going to rid of this freak. We have people being attacked by Pit Bulls on the Western States National Recreation Trail because Kranz canceled State Park Ranger Mounted Patrols when he was a State Employee.
He’s only interested in filling his wallet at taxpayers expense. I knew Ronald Reagan and Bruce Kranz is not a Reagan Republican. I rode with Gov. Reagan, Wendel Robie and others on the Western States Trail. Bruce Kranz wasn’t there nor was his name mentioned.
President Reagan envisioned a Transcontinental Trail System for Hikers and Riders Administered and Patrolled by Dedicated Rangers. In 1976 the California State Park Commission signed a Contract with the National Park Service to Maintain and Patrol the Western States National Recreation Trail from Nimbus Dam to the Headwaters of the Middle Fork of the American River.
Under Governor Reagan and his Director of Parks and Recreation, William Penn Mott, the California State Park System flourished.
With the Supervision of Bruce Kranz the Security of Visitors to Folsom Lake State Recreation Area and the Auburn State Recreation Area is a war zone.
why can’t you find a candidate with at least a two digit IQ. I won’t vote for some dip shit like bruce kranz.
(This is the same person that left the previous comment)
My husband worked for State Parks for 25 years… he started as (a old term) Park Attendant at San Clemente in 1969 – he was hired right after the division was made into Visitor Services and Maintenance – he chose Maintenance because chances for advancement were better then with Visitor Services. He promoted up throught the Park Service faster and younger then any employee in it’s history (I’m sure there have been other hotshots that have done it faster since those days). When he started there were 467 employees, when he left the State had just cut the Department in half by a little over 2000 employees – leaving about that many employees to keep, maintains, and improve the existing parks.
I’m going to tell you right now that the cutbacks and trying to ‘aim’ parks at certain individuals, the pc-ism of making parks that were important to only a portion of the state’s residents (as in Angel Island because it was a detention center during WWII) is a part of the reason that your horse patrols were cut back. Another reason paying a Berkley professor $30,000.00 to go and study why wild turkeys were over-running another of the start parks instead of letting a local hunt club go in and gather them up for free is another of the reasons there are no funds for rangers to patrol, or seasonal help to clean, or maintenance to repair. And another reason is trading off our state rights for Federal Funds by buying into Affirmative Action and forcing State Supervisors people from lists handed to them by the Department of Human Resources – people who did not want to work, or who showed up late, not dressed properly, or were stoned and/or drunk.
Bad management in Sacramento is the reason that those horse patrols were cut and, having worked during my husband’s 25 years as a Volunteer (he retired in 1994 and I quit volunteering then) I know as a fact that there is not a single thing ANY park employee could have done to keep a patrol once Sacramento decided to cut it.
The money, your tax dollar and my tax dollar, was and IS being spent on pc-ism and special interest groups and unless you vote in people who will get back to aiming public services at ALL the LEGAL residents and vistors there isn’t a individual alive that will help you hold onto any of those 28 parks that the Governor is going to cut.
Good luck folks… you’re going to need it.
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