Gerry Parsky: The Ruin of California and Bill Simon? (With friends like this...)

Mr. Gerald L. Parsky
Chairman, Team California
10877 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 2100
Los Angeles, CA 90024

With the greatest urgency, I am writing to express my concern over the seeming lack of interest by Team Cal in supporting the Cal Plan approved unanimously May 3, 2002 by the CRP Board of Directors. You voted for the plan and expressed your strong support for its components.

The Party’s problem is that all funds from appearances by Bush Administration officials go into the Team Cal account. You therefore have control over all the California Republican Party’s discretionary funds. Yet you keep turning CRP staff down when they ask you for funds to support approved budget items.

For example, on the June 3rd Operations Committee conference call, you were asked on behalf of Team Cal to contribute somewhat less than $100,000 to enhance our voter file, $25,000 for a desperately needed new CRP computer system, and computer support staff costs of $12,000. You said no to these expenditures. I think you owe the Board of Directors an explanation.

You said further that there are no plans to convene a Team Cal meeting to discuss what the organization will do to fund Cal Plan program needs. You said you had ‘no plan to expend funds’ except for Registration Bounty.

Gerry, there are only 143 days left until the general election. If you are serious about electing Bill Simon, please call a Team Cal meeting and decide which elements of the Cal Plan the group will support. As of today, Team Cal has $787,182 in its account. The rest of the California Republican Party has $60,720 to fund everything except Registration Bounty. Our reformed CRP By-laws state that Team Cal as a group, not any one individual, will decide how their funds are spent. Any money left in the Team Cal bank account on November 6 is money wasted and opportunity lost.

You have told us repeatedly the past fifteen months that the CRP would get fundraising visits from Cabinet officers. None have appeared except Secretary of Agriculture Veneman at our February convention. If these visits are not scheduled within the next month, we will be unable to maximize their financial potential. Three to six well-planned events could raise several million dollars for the Team Cal bank account.

I pledge that I will support Team Cal’s decision on which Cal Plan program elements to support. We all united on the Cal Plan. Now, let’s unite on making it work. The time for action is now. Soon it will be too late to make a real difference.

This guy Parsky is a complete disaster. He controls every cent that the Bush Administration could raise for the CRP (what little he's produced) and he's making what looks like a concerted effort to make the Party look like it will do nothing to help Bill Simon.

Then again, I don't quite expect a guy who commutes to work on a Gulfstream jet and regards us conservative activists in the Party as meddlesome, stubborn pests to his "moderation of the Party" plan to understand what he's really doing... Or does he?

No one elected Parsky to have this kind of power, it's the result of the hare-brained "reforms" railroaded through last year at our convention in Los Angeles. And now it's coming back to bite us. Parsky has doubtless been George W. Bush's and Karl Rove's biggest mistake, politically speaking.

California Republican freepers, care to share your thoughts (disgust, I'd presume?) with Mr. Parsky and the CRP Board of Directors?

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How are we going to move the Manure out of the Governor's Office if Parsky is not gonna help Simon?

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Parsky is just doing what Bush is telling him to do with the money BUSH raised.

Simon was asked not to run by the Bush people. They were aware what Davis would likely do to insure Simon won the primary and Davis won the general. Simon didn't care. He just wanted to win the primary.

Their is no problem with going against a president and the party to run for office. Lots of people have done it. But rule #1 is such a candidate will have to raise his own money. When the party leadership says don't run and a candidate does, that means the candidate doesn't get any money from the party. Always has... Always will. Because no party will reward someone who goes against party wishes. That falls into the DUHHHHHH !!!! category. You would have to be a very VERY Simple Simon not to understand that simple fact.

Simon KNEW when he stayed in the primary race that if he won the primary he was on his own.

Davis is a very weak Democrat that is still leading Simon by over 10 points. A party will not give money to a candidate that is 10 points down. I posted several weeks ago that if Simon did not stay close he would get zero money from the state and national party.

The foolish people are all surprised. But candidates get no money when they are double digits behind. Is the way it works. That is true in this case. It is always true in every case. Parties are like businesses. They never throw good money after bad, if they can avoid it. At this point investing money in Simon looks like a loser. It is up to Simon to get within striking distance. Both parties figure it this way, a candidate that can't raise money, will not be able to govern.

Simon is doing very poorly at raising money. He is way short. He has a problem because no one that has more than 10 bucks in their pocket believes he can win. No one believes that if Simon were given unlimited money he could win. So Simon is looking to winners to raise money for the loser. Here is a clue...... Winners don't get to be winners by raising money for losers. IT DOES NOT HAPPEN.

A candiate that goes against party wishes is on his own. He can garner party acceptance only if he looks like he can win. It is up to the rebel to get from "sure loser" to the "can win" category.

Looking for your party, other candidates, or other elected officials to do it for you is a giant waste of time.

If Simon wants to know where to go to get money all he has to do is look in the mirror. He will see the only person in the world who will get money for him.

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