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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 CRP staff reduced, Where is the money? Parsky Watch #36 January 24, 2003 PARSKY AND THE CRP – HOW LOW CAN THEY GO? The Parsky Reforms were sold, too a large extent, on the basis they would “professionalize” the staff” and therefore avoid the disruptive churning of staff after each election. Another Parsky promise made, another Parsky promise broken. The other day, the California Republican Party was forced to lay off nearly a quarter of its staff, including all but one regional field director and the finance director. Now, a degree of post-election contraction is normal, but these draconian reduction-in-force goes beyond normal and exposes the state party’s ongoing fiscal and operational melt down. And as night follows day, the trail of calamity leads to the doorstep of none other than Gerry Parsky. You see, even as the money-starved CRP is forced to decimate its own staff, Gerry Parsky is sitting on close to $200,000 in the Team Cal account – and not offering a penny of it to help the state party operate above skeleton crew levels. It’s like a man standing on the shore and watching his friend go down for the last time, while refusing to throw the life ring in his hand. Given his massive culpability in the near asphyxiation of the California Republican Party, Parsky’s refusal to transfer those Team Cal funds to the CRP is especially damnable. Parsky’s parsimony and mismanagement are almost single-handedly preventing the CRP from capitalizing on Democratic abysmal botching of state government. The budget fiasco in Sacramento is a golden opportunity for California Republicans to rebuild. The Democrats are in complete control and are shouting loud and proud for tax increases – as many as possible – to close the budget gap. The tax issue is tailor made for the GOP – and an issue every wing can agree on. However, thanks for Parsky, the state party is incapable of capitalizing on this opportunity. For example, with the Democrats bungling of everything, you’d think now would be a good time to aggressively register Republicans. After all, people who register now – months away from the next election – are far more likely to go to the polls than those who sign their registration cards close to election day. But doh!! Gerry’s pulled the plugged on the registration program. No money, you see. And the fact that Parsky has turned our money-making biennial conventions into money losers isn’t helping the situation any either. We’ve asked it before, and we’ll ask it again: isn’t Parsky supposed to be a SUCCESSFUL businessman? After the November elections, we thought California Republican Party fortunes had just about hit bottom, and that even Gerry Parsky couldn’t make thing any worse. For a change, Gerry Parsky has proven us wrong.