Sunday, April 20, 2008

The Further misAdventurers of TCA

3/5/08

Remember how, right after Coastal Commission dropped kicked TCA back to their Irvine headquarters (to regroup), TCA packed their kit-bag of Spin catching the first flight out of John Wayne for DC, to cry foul to our Fed Commerce Dept.

The Dept., that if it could, would greenlight any cockamamie development notion anywhere.

TCA's Idea being: leap frog Cal eco-laws quick, and pave San Onofre.

Well, according to TCA's Man in San Clemente, councilman Jim Dahl (he went) - here's what happened (reported last night to SC council): they all went. And saw a lot of important people.
Like our local pro-toll-road-Congressman Ken Calvert (and others.
Sorry, no names).

And - they went by Senator Feinstein's DC office.
She being key to their quickie-DC junk-it.
Actually, Senator Feinstein was their sole reason for junk-it'ing.
But, it seems Mrs. Feinstein wasn't in. Oops.
But they did see her office.

So, was TCA's Trestles toll road junk-it just-more-wasted-tax-dollars down TCA's black-toll-hole (our tax dollars) - no way.
Councilman Dahl reports many successes:
They talked to important Fed-folks about water reclamation (is TCA expanding into water use too?) - they talked to the head Corp of Engineer fella about beach-sand replenishment (hmm, beach tolls?).

Oh, and our Supervisor Bates happened to be in DC giving a terrific speech on something. To who? Not sure. About what?
Not sure about that either. Jim's notes are always a tad sketchy.
He's a big-picture guy. Not so much for details.

All in all, Councilman Dahl was impressed.
The Corp-engineer fella has heard of San Clemente.

That's the report.

Gives you confidence in OC's/TCA leadership don't it?
Jim Dahl lobbying in DC.
It's times like this, my mind wanders back to 1994...
the only county in the history of America to eeeever bankrupt.

That's the TCA News, for now.

jer

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