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Posted by: thepinetree on 06/07/2010 11:39 PM
Updated by: thepinetree on 06/14/2010 10:48 AM
Expires: 01/01/2015 12:00 AM
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Letter to the Editor~by Bill Senger
"McManus Mailer Makes No Sense..."Now there you go again." As a self-annointed conservative, Bill McManus should be familiar with Ronald Reagan's oft-repeated quote. Once more, his handlers at the Calaveras Business Coalition have cobbled a chicken-little campaign mailer based on fantasy rather than fact. ...
I'm curious. Do you guys make this drivel up, or do you actually hire somebody to read tea leaves?
This time around they claim a 45% cut in our Sheriff's Department over the past three years. Where do they get these numbers? Public safety receives the highest percentage of the county budget and has remained stable for the past three years. This lie is so blatant that Sheriff Downum felt compelled to record a radio rebuttal for the Callaway campaign. Everyone's entitled to their own opinion; no one's entitled to their own facts.
While they're at it, why not sound the alarm that only 3-4 deputies are available at times for the entire county? This has been the case for years, so what's their point? Our deputies have mutual aid backup from detectives, CHP, park rangers, and Angels Camp PD. Did the CBC just figure this out? And true, your call for help may be delayed because law enforcement resources are assigned by priority, not paranoia. Reports that the mother ship is calling you may have a longer response time.
Oh yeah, that $350,000 they claim was spent for an "unusable" yard waste chipper, that was for a screening machine at the Milton site. It removes dirt and gravel from root balls before they are ground up for use as biofuel and landscaping mulch. It's part of that "green thingy" you may have heard about.
And what unctuous clown came up with the $1 million cost of a general plan? There is a difference between money budgeted and money spent.The $250,000 quoted for neighboring counties wouldn't even cover the cost of an Environmental Impact Report. If the zeros make the CBC's candidate dizzy, maybe this isn't a good time for a career change.
It is easy for an inexperienced and uninformed candidate (or his carpet-bagging sponsors) to make ambitious promises to solve all our problems, but how will they do it? So far, what we've seen from the McManus campaign has been all hat and no cattle. Judging from McManus' inability to follow simple filing instructions and meet deadlines, he would have a difficult time qualifying for a job in a fast food drive through.
These difficult economic times require intelligence and experience to preserve our essential county services in spite of our dwindling budgets. Merita Callaway brings those qualities to the table. She has served this county well in the past and I see no reason to doubt that she will continue to do so.
Bill Senger"
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