TBSC members caught lying again: The RV ordinance and "faking" locality

The form letter on the TBSC website reads in part: "City Council has no obligation to create or support RV camps in our city limits."

TBSC members such as Samantha Olden and Christopher Culligan sent "edgier" versions of the letter to the City Council directly, which were modified to use discriminatory language. Their letters to the Council read: "City Council has no obligation to create or support RV Ghettos in our city limits."

Samantha Olden is not a resident of the City of Santa Cruz. She lists Aptos as the location of her home on her personal Facebook page.

It is also this author's understanding that Christopher Culligan resides in the town of Felton.

Other known TBSC members used the form letter to contact the City Council and it is unclear how many of them actually live in the city. TBSC is run by a small group of people, many of whom are transplants to Santa Cruz, and the question has always been, "Who are these people trying to take back Santa Cruz from, and why do they think they have the right to take it back?"

Now it turns out their members are misrepresenting themselves and the location of their residences in their official communications to the Santa Cruz City Council.

TBSC members in their advocacy exert an enormous amount of pressure on the Santa Cruz City Government Staff and its elected officials, and TBSC donates large sums of money to the Santa Cruz Police Department.

While TBSC claims its focus is on public safety, many believe the group is more focused on criminalizing homelessness and ejecting low income members from the city.

Full text of the TBSC form letter on its website:

"Dear City Council"

"Please stop trying to turn city parking lots into overnight RV campgrounds. Campgrounds have very specific planning, building and health code requirements. Parking lots are not structured to support any type of overnight RV camping. City Council has no obligation to create or support RV camps in our city limits. Please do not support this misguided proposal."

"And a 7 hour, 10 pm to 5 am, nighttime RV parking ordinance will NOT prevent RVs from dumping or leaking sewage, dumping trash, dangerously obscuring street and intersection sight lines, or prevent the drug and criminal activity that takes place in and around these vehicles no matter the time of day."

"Please pass a 24-7 RV parking ban, with permits allowed for residents and their visitors. If you are concerned that RV tourists will not have parking, then set aside some metered RV parking spaces and charge accordingly."