Warblogging Saturday

May 30, 2009

Today Maven is in the mood to fight the good fight and there are many battles.

First of all, congratulations to Marin Mommies for being nominated for the Nicks ParentConnect Best Local Blog in the San Francisco area. It is time to take up arms and vote as many times we can for them. Even though they are ahead now, we must not rest until our mouse fingers bleed and Marin Mommies competition has zero hope of winning. After you vote for them visit their site and read about this terribly sad story of a nine year old who was killed by a drunk driver in Novato. There is a memorial fund for the family since the father is still in serious condition with an amputated leg. The motorcyclist who hit them had SIX prior DUIs. Let’s hope THIS time something is done to take this person off the streets. Maven wrote earlier that she enjoyed two cocktails at Boca, and she did so with her husband driving home. Maven has said many times here that if you drink, get a ride home.

Save Our Parks


For every dollar California spends on our parks, $2.35 is returned to the state’s General Fund through economic activities in the communities surrounding the parks. Beginning July 1st, the Governor will cut the parks core funding in half and then eliminate all core funding in twelve months.  A total of 220 parks would be effected. Without this money, the majority of our parks will be closed, which would result in $350 million dollars in revenue. Tourism around the state would suffer, because people from all over the country and the world come here to see our world famous parks. Last year our state parks hosted 80 million visitors and the state parks expect even more this year. State parks get Californian’s staycation dollars.  Since state parks receive accounts for less than 1/10 of one percent of the entire state budget, cutting parks will do nothing to solve this financial crisis. Visit the site for the Save Our Parks campaign. We have saved our parks in the past, I know we can do it now.

Here are the local State Parks that will be closed:

Angel Island SP
China Camp SP
Mount Tamalpais SP
Olompali SHP
Petaluma Adobe SHP
Samuel P. Taylor SP
Sonoma Coast SP
Sonoma SHP
Tomales Bay SP
Jack London SHP

Posted in California Budget, Save Our Parks, california politics