Friday: Legislators to Call on CALTRANS to Make Things Right for Veterans
“Our veterans and their families have paid a heavy price in defense of our country,” Senator Joel Anderson tells SD Rostra. “All we’re asking is that Caltrans show veterans some respect by doing their job.”
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Legislators Call on CALTRANS to Make Things Right for Veterans
Senator Mark Wyland, Senator Joel Anderson and Assemblyman Martin Garrick will host a press conference at the Miramar National Cemetery in San Diego this Friday. They will speak on the need for CALTRANS to appropriately honor our veterans. Miramar National Cemetery opened a year ago as a burial site to honor our war heroes.
San Diego elected state officials will be joined by their constituents and many notable retired military.
What: Press Conference
When: Friday, September 21, 2012 at 9:30 am
Where: Miramar National Cemetery in front of the entrance sign; 5795 Nobel Drive, San Diego, CA 92122; 858-658-7360
Visual: Elected officials with constituents and retired military
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Do you have to attend to find out what CalTrans did? May be I just missed the news that day…seems pretty bad though.
Good question, Hugh. Thor Shrugged.
CalTrans has refused to erect signs on I-805 and I-15 to direct motorists to Miramar National Cemetery.
“CalTrans has refused to erect signs on I-805 and I-15 to direct motorists to Miramar National Cemetery.”
Here’s what you do, then…you just erect those signs yourself. This is why guys like Bob Filner (as kooky and as wrong as he is) get elected; they show daring leadership.
The first thing you do is make 10 corrugated plastic temporary signs and put them along the highway yourself. That sets the tine with CalTRANS that you really mean business. This press conference is a PR stunt anyway so hammering the temporary signs in gets you the same PR exposure.
California’s broke (Messrs Anderson, Wyland and Garrick tell us this all the time) so you go to a bunch of American Legion halls and ask for donations. It probably costs 5-10 grand for this project. You put out an email to your constituents asking for donations and not act surprised when you get twice the amount you need for the project,
Bifurcate the Democrats by asking the local unions to volunteer to install the permanent signs, on a Sunday morning, and dare the apparatchiks at CalTRANS to stop you. If CHP shows up to put you in bracelets, smile as wildly as you can for the mug shot because you just became a folk hero.
“Conservative” politicians harp about free citizens solving problems better than politburos but keep banging their heads up against the politburos and losing elections. Time to “walk the walk” rather than just “talk the talk”. Just…do…it.
Brian Bilbray+bulldozer= successful political career
Brian, please do a column on this.
Beside the massive multi-Billion-dollar increase to the Federal Veterans Affairs Budget that Congressman Bob Filner percured for Veterans in general, Congress are finally holding the VA Executives feet to the fire to deliver on their promises of improvements to Mental Health Care and Accountability, and Veterans employment.
http://veterans.house.gov/press-release/mental-health-care-and-accountability-major-concerns-at-va
http://veterans.house.gov/press-release/subcommittee-examines-tap-20-finds-shortfalls
Will do Thor