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More Parsky Watch Parsky Watch - The Magazine Take the Parsky Watch IQ Test Visit the Parsky Watch Store	Back to Parsky Watch archives Starving the CRP Parsky Watch #15 June 28, 2002 “…ONE PARTY, UNDER PARSKY, INSOLVENT, WITH BROKEN PROMISES AND DISORGANIZATION FOR ALL.” The election is only 128 days away, but the California Republican Party has hired only one field representative, has yet to hire a finance director, and is strapped for cash. Gerry Parsky is sitting on nearly $800,000 in his Team Cal account, but won’t give the CRP a cent for essential operations. And this is the guy who promised to save the party if his “reforms” were adopted? What’s the point of putting a political party in the hands of a non-ideological businessman if he proves incapable of managing that party? Not only does this hamstring the party’s ability to make a philosophical case to the voters, but the mismanagement renders it financially and operationally incapable of doing its job. Cal Plan (the CRP political plan for the November election) remains unfunded, despite promises made by Gerry Parsky at the time of his takeover that Cal Plan would be fully funded to the tune of $6 million no later than March of this year. Despite Parsky’s attempts to mislead the party faithful, all funds raised by Bush Cabinet officer visits go into the Team Cal account – controlled by Parsky – not into CRP or Simon for Governor coffers. Parsky, who was supposed to resurrect the party, is instead starving it for cash. The CRP has about $60,000 in the bank to fund operations (excluding the Registration Bounty Program, a worthy endeavor that luckily has caught Parsky’s fancy), while the Parsky-controlled Team Cal has nearly $800,000. On a June 3rd Operations Committee conference call, Parsky was asked to authorize Team Cal expenditures of about $100,000 to improve the CRP voter file, $25,000 for a new computer system and $12,000 for computer support staff – all critical political infrastructure going into a heated campaign season where the governorship and all statewide offices are on the line. Parsky’s response? A big fat “no.” Not only that, Mr. Parsky informed the rest of the Operations Committee he wasn’t planning on spending Team Cal money on anything but the Registration Bounty Program. So what gives, Gerry? We understand that in business, you need to show a profit at the end of the fiscal year. But this ain’t business, it’s politics – you’re supposed to raise and borrow and spend as much as possible in order to win. Only losers wake up the day after an election with money in the bank – winners have debt. BACK IN BUSINESS Gerry Parsky and his lawyers recently tried to shut us down. In fact, they succeeded, forcing us to spend an extra five minutes opening a new Hotmail account. Like a phoenix rising from the ashes, the Parsky Watches emerges anew! THE PLEDGE RULING AND THE PARSKY COMMISSIONS No, we’re not going to blame the Ninth Circuit Court’s Pledge of Allegiance ruling on Gerry Parsky. However, it does highlight the grave danger involved in his Parsky Commission’s collaboration with Barbara Boxer and Dianne Feinstein on picking federal district judges. District judges filter up and become Circuit Court judges – like the ones who decided the Pledge of Allegiance case. The author of that opinion was appointed by a Republican President (Richard Nixon), making clear the folly of formally empowering two liberal Democrat Senators to prevent President Bush from naming conservative judges of the kind who would never make such an utterly nutty ruling. The Pledge ruling demonstrated yet again how messed up the Federal Ninth Circuit Court is – the Parsky Commission will only, at least indirectly, make matters worse.