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By Bob Ham
"Now is the time when men work quietly in
the fields, and women .weep softly 'in the
kitchen; the legislature is in session, and no
man's' property is safe." Daniel Webster is
erwise contact their S~nators .a nd
Assemblymen. The lobbiest retained
by these groups swung into action
andspentthenexttwodayspleading
with key legislative leaders to spare
the.OHV FU!1d from this attack. T~e
le~slature finally approved the bill
WIth only $8.5 million being taken
from the OHV ~oney.
.
In the meanume, the Budget BIll
still contained language which would
~ncel an $8.5 million project at Ocotillo We~ls and tral"!S£er the money
appropriated for this ORV park t.o
the General Fund. Eventually this
money transfer wasAc1eted ~rom .the
~udget, but the pn:)VlSlon which eliminated the Ocotillo Wells p~oJe~t
~emamed and for now that project IS
10 trouble.
: The Bud;get Act, besides the provisions mentioned above, also provided
the money to begin work on the Syc. amore Canyon proi,ect in San Diego
County. S
