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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 debt growing with mismanagement Parsky Watch #38 February 20, 2003 CONVENTION MONEY PIT: PARSKY KEEPS DIGGING Let us return again to the always sore subject of money, and the California Republican Party’s painful lack thereof. The pain is sure to increase this weekend, as the CRP meets for its bi-annual organizing convention in Sacramento. As loyal readers of PW, you are in the know regarding the scandalous ineptitude of the “professionals” running our convention operations, i.e. Gerry Parsky, Lorelei Kinder ULP (Unlimited Liability Partnership). You know that the 2002 February convention managed to lose $110,000. You also know that the September 2002 convention flushed another enormous sum of money down the drain. We’d like to pause here for a moment to admit a rare error. In PW 35, we reported the fall convention lost $25,000. Actually, the figure was closer to $100,000. It’s almost like Gerry and Lorelei are trying to lose money on these things! Incredibly, the situation continues to deteriorate. The CRP still owes the unsuspecting hotel that hosted the Fall 2002 convention $100,000. The Sacramento Hyatt demands $50,000 up front because of the CRP’s credit unworthiness. At this rate, the CRP won’t be able to rent a private dining room at Denny’s. It really isn’t that hard to leverage conventions to make money for the party. All previous CRP administrations managed to do it, despite their dismaying “unprofessionalism.” In past PWs, we have helpfully outlined the very simple steps necessary to turn conventions into revenue generators – only to be ignored by the professionals in Rancho Santa Fe and Fallbrook. Were beginning to think Gerry and Lorelei could lose money selling water in the desert. Meanwhile, Gerry Parsky sits on a fat $187,000 in the Team Cal account, fiddling while the CRP burns. His convention manager, Lorelei Kinder, is paid a tidy $6,000 to run the CRP convention even as she devotes all her time to managing Bill Back’s chairmanship race (nice work if you can get it). The CRP totters on the edge of insolvency, staff is decimated and crucial operations like voter registration programs are put on ice even as voter dissatisfaction with our Democratic governor reaches fever pitch – while a blissfully detached Gerry Parsky prepares to bungle President Bush’s re-election. In light of what on the damage inflicted on the CRP Gerry’s “focus” on “reforming” it, God help the President’s re-election effort in the Golden State.