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FRESNO: Before you vote to give away Roeding Park
If Fresno's Roeding Park becomes privatized, it won't be by accident; moneyed interests have their eyes on ALL of our public property. Before you vote, check out the pro-privatization websites and see what's being planned for YOUR public property.
Please, please check out these websites NOW, before you vote on the Roeding Park ballot measure:
http://www.privatization.org
http://www.reason.org (read their how-to guides for privatizing virtually everything, including airports!)
And while you're at it, visit http://www.sfbg.com (the site of the independently-owned San Francisco Bay Guardian newspaper) and search for articles on San Francisco's Presidio.
San Francisco was promised a Presidio National Park dedicated to sustainability and peaceful international conflict resolution. Instead--thanks to privatization, in the form of a government-owned corporation, the "Presidio Trust," which was SOLD TO SAN FRANCISCANS AS A "PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP"--San Francisco is ending up with a gigantic (and UNnecessary) George Lucas office complex, a pricey new private high school, and a Disney museum.
There was even talk recently of turning an historic Presidio building into CONDOS, which would have been sold at market rates (up to around $1 million per condo unit).
The Presidio Trust is bringing in more and more money, but the public is getting less and less of what they were promised. And when it's all built out, it will be one very hectic, very congested, and very UNparklike place.
http://www.privatization.org
http://www.reason.org (read their how-to guides for privatizing virtually everything, including airports!)
And while you're at it, visit http://www.sfbg.com (the site of the independently-owned San Francisco Bay Guardian newspaper) and search for articles on San Francisco's Presidio.
San Francisco was promised a Presidio National Park dedicated to sustainability and peaceful international conflict resolution. Instead--thanks to privatization, in the form of a government-owned corporation, the "Presidio Trust," which was SOLD TO SAN FRANCISCANS AS A "PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP"--San Francisco is ending up with a gigantic (and UNnecessary) George Lucas office complex, a pricey new private high school, and a Disney museum.
There was even talk recently of turning an historic Presidio building into CONDOS, which would have been sold at market rates (up to around $1 million per condo unit).
The Presidio Trust is bringing in more and more money, but the public is getting less and less of what they were promised. And when it's all built out, it will be one very hectic, very congested, and very UNparklike place.
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After weeks of watching press coverage on television and in the Bee news sections, I can only wonder why discussion about Measure Z hasn't revolved around the single reason for support the "Yes On Z" spokesman at the Fresno Fair repeatedly gave me when I visited his booth?
"We're going to privatize it!" He proclaimed, reminding me of The Music Man's Harold Hill giving me a "P for Privatization, and that rhymes with Z, and that stands for Zoo". When I challenged the notion that huge amounts of money were being "donated" for "free" signs to pass a measure that seemed aimed at a select group of individuals with positions and ties within city government, like Jerry Duncan's printing affiliates Quick Signs receiving $245,000 and ProScreen Inc. which was paid $192,000. Quite a bit of income for a City Council member voting on the same agenda item that fills his pockets. Im filled with dreadful skepticism that these politically ambitious business types might give short shrift to the business of animal care, as they well would to the Endangered Species Act and biological diversity, two key tenets of Zoo missions around the world, while giving full attention to the contractual profit needs of businesses more interested in lining their own pockets than cages. The real opponents of Measure Z are not "anti-tax or anti-Zoo zealots", just smarter than average Bear voters. Join us in saving Roeding Park and the Chaffee Zoo from the worlds deadliest animal.
Vote NO on Measure Z.
"We're going to privatize it!" He proclaimed, reminding me of The Music Man's Harold Hill giving me a "P for Privatization, and that rhymes with Z, and that stands for Zoo". When I challenged the notion that huge amounts of money were being "donated" for "free" signs to pass a measure that seemed aimed at a select group of individuals with positions and ties within city government, like Jerry Duncan's printing affiliates Quick Signs receiving $245,000 and ProScreen Inc. which was paid $192,000. Quite a bit of income for a City Council member voting on the same agenda item that fills his pockets. Im filled with dreadful skepticism that these politically ambitious business types might give short shrift to the business of animal care, as they well would to the Endangered Species Act and biological diversity, two key tenets of Zoo missions around the world, while giving full attention to the contractual profit needs of businesses more interested in lining their own pockets than cages. The real opponents of Measure Z are not "anti-tax or anti-Zoo zealots", just smarter than average Bear voters. Join us in saving Roeding Park and the Chaffee Zoo from the worlds deadliest animal.
Vote NO on Measure Z.
Wrong again. Like so much of the mis-information given by the opponents to Measure Z (which passed by the way), I do not have any involvement in either Pro-Screen or Quick-Signs. While I did own both companies at one time, I sold Quick-Signs 7 years ago and I sold Pro-Screen 4 years ago.
Also, the new non-profit organization that will be established to run the Zoo is the same model used by most successful Zoos, including San Francisco and Sacramento.
Try to be honest with people and give some factual information.
Also, the new non-profit organization that will be established to run the Zoo is the same model used by most successful Zoos, including San Francisco and Sacramento.
Try to be honest with people and give some factual information.
Jerry, nice to see you taking an interest in something in our neck of The 'No. So, since you are no doubt a close personal friend of Dave (More Patriotic Than You) McDonald, perhaps you could tell us what a high-falutin' law firm in West Palm Beach wants with little ol' Chaffee Zoo? Almost sounds like a scene from Blazing Saddles, doesn't it? But even Gov. LePetomaine didn't donate $20,000 to the good citizens of Rock Ridge.....
so who owns them?
any run for mayor by a terrorist will be dogged by your own follies, guaran damn teed. Looking forward to it, jer.
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