Sen. Dave Cox Responds To Adam Probolsky
Posted by: Editorial Staff | 07/01/2008 11:51 AM
State Senator Dave Cox submitted this in response to Adam Probolsky's post from yesterday:
What if a Republican fought to end a program with a $580 million taxpayer funded annual revenue stream that funded illegal immigrants?
What if a Republican fought to end a program that was using taxpayer dollars to fund programs like the Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Community Center to "develop a social marketing campaign designed to shift public opinion regarding acceptance and inclusion of LGBT families"?
What if a Republican fought to end a program that was using taxpayer resources to fund an organization, "The California Center for Public Health Advocacy," that was given $500,000 to organize communities to advocate for menu labeling and soda ban legislation and local ordinances?"
What if a Republican fought to prioritize local school funding and local law enforcement funding over the funding of book clubs, music and singing circles, and play groups?
What if a Republican fought to fund healthcare for 200,000 children already eligible for a state program rather than supporting expanding that program to illegal immigrants and kids of families with adequate incomes to fund that care themselves?
What if a Republican proposed eliminating 59 bureaucracies with unaccountable appointed commissioners?
What if a Republican thought that nearly $2.5 billion sitting around in the reserve accounts of those 59 bureaucracies could be used to fund existing needs rather than supporting increasing taxes on hard working Californians?
What if the abuse of the program that Republicans wanted to eliminate was so egregious that even the San Francisco Chronicle questioned its efforts and highlighted some of its expenditures? (see excerpt of Chronicle Article below)
"A sampling of the grants:
-- "Multi-Family First Time Camping Experience" included a camping lesson and overnight trip to Big Sur for six families.
-- "Couples Travel and Learn Together" included an overnight stay at the Four Points
Sheraton in Pleasanton, where couples from Chinatown took marriage workshops. It also included $250 in Target gift cards.
-- "Families of La Piccola Scuola Italiana" included holiday party space rental and the purchase of a Babbo Natale (Italian version of Santa Claus) costume."
Source: SF Chronicle, April 19, 2008
What if a Republican actually recognized after two State Audits and numerous County Grand Jury reports, that someone needed to stand up and call for some action and accountability?
What if a Republican actually reviewed the materials on Senator Dave Cox's website and realized that this is exactly the type of proposal that Republicans in California should be supporting?
What if a Republican recognized that California voters opposed ending the 50 cent per pack tax on tobacco products by a vote of 72.2% to 27.8% and that again fighting for a repeal of the tax would be fruitless and instead chose to act to protect taxpayers in an achievable way?
Well, Adam Probolsky would call them a Democrat.
Adam, while you are a great part of the GOP team, you missed the mark on this post. I would not blame Senator Harman if he sent you the updated edition of Hooked on Phonics so that you can be better able to read the material and understand the facts.
And yes, Adam, the folks down in the Children and Families Commission in Orange County are using taxpayer funds to provide services for illegal immigrants. Just ask them and they will tell you themselves. Their supporters may think that nobody is paying attention. A little sunlight might be helpful.
All the best, of course!
DAVE COX
Senator, First District
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Cox is the one who must think nobody is paying attention.
Didn't Sen. Cox vote for the state budget last year? And doesn't money from the state budget make its way, one way or another, into providing services that illegal aliens use?
But I guess that's different somehow.
Cox should get out of his glass house before he throws stones.
Sounds to me like Adam Probolsky just got his butt handed to him - again! This is happening quite regularly and I am enjoying it.
Punked? More like Adam struck a nerve and Cox has gone into protesting-too-much mode.
No mater how Cox slices it or points the finger, his proposal is all about making government bigger. And that's what Democrats do.
Did Adam do your fact checking? Cox did not vote for the budget last year. Only two Republican Senators voted for the budget, it was Sen. Maldonado and Sen. Ackerman (Adam's good friend). Of course Adam doesn't mind big government Ackermen, because he is helping line Adam's pockets, just like the Orange County Children and Families Commission. It is typically of Adam to carry the water for his big government clients. If you look at the bill by Cox and Harman, it does not expand government at all. It shifts money from a real bad program that has no accountability. However, I am not surprised that Adam would go to bat for an unaccountable bureaucracy, after all, they pay the best.
I suppose you have proof Adam works for the Children and Families Commission? Or or these more "facts"?
Here's a fact: enrolling more people in an entitlement program equals making government bigger. It's called arithmetic.
Actually, I do have proof that Adam has done consulting work for the Children and Families Commission. Also, it is not enrolling more kids in the program when they are already enrolled. The fact is that in a tough budget year the Dems will use cutting funding to the Healthy Families program as a tool to increase taxes. This is a much better alternative then the Democratic proposals and it gets rid of 59 wasteful bureaucracies.
"Actually, I do have proof that Adam has done consulting work for the Children and Families Commission."
Really? Then put up or shut up.
Based on this response, Probolsky looks all wet. Save the GOP: here's a tip on arithmetic, don't mention it if you don't know how to do it. See, the program already exists, the kids are already qualified for coverage, the only thing lacking is funding.
Your argument is to keep wasteful programs with no oversight and eliminate a program that gives kids insurance. Sweet. Its one thing for an adult to choose not to get health insurance, or to choose to ignore programs that will provide him with the education or training necessary to get the skills for a better paying job which would either provide health insurance or the means to purchase it, but denying it to a kid because he had the misfortune to be born to a deadbeat? You're all heart. Tell you what, give me that kind of government any day - and yes, I'm a conservative Republican. Go figure, labels don't tell the whole story.
It is not true that First 5 commissions are not accountable. They all must have their members appointed by the local board of supervisors. They all have strict financial guidelines to follow. They are all independently audited each year. They must hold public hearings on the audit. They are all required to have strategic plans to provide services for the critical years of birth through five when the brain develops most, and they must fund those plans. By virtue of prudent planning and staying within their means, First 5 commissions are sustainable and actually have savings. The fact is that if state government ran like First commissions, the state would have a surplus too – and these legislators would not have to go about telling these lies and stealing money form babies.
Everyone reading these comments should investigate the claims from "Gimme A Break" and "Save The GOP" because they are patently false. These commenters know it. Dave Cox annd Tom Harman know it. Therefore, they are knowingly lying.
Trucker Quinn already exploded the "unaccountable" lie.
Another lie is the "providing services to illegal immigrants" line. First 5 commission serve children 0-5 - only the tiniest fraction of those kids were born outside of the U.S. Any idiot ought to be able to figure that out, proving there are office holders and their minions who are less then idiots.
I love this one from "Gimme a Break":
"Save the GOP: here's a tip on arithmetic, don't mention it if you don't know how to do it. See, the program already exists, the kids are already qualified for coverage, the only thing lacking is funding."
Only a liberal would see someone who is merely eligible for a government program as being part of that program.
It's very simple: those 200,000 kids aren't enrolled in Healthy Families. Cox and Harman want to enroll them, i.e. they want to make 200,000 MORE people DEPENDENT on GOVERNMENT for health insurance.
Republicans will never get anywhere with Democrat-lite policies like Cox and Harmans.
My thoughts Can be read here:
"GOP commentator offers baseless attacks of GOP Legislators who offer solutions"
http://www.redcounty.com/sac/2008/07/gop-comentator-offers-baseless/