Interesting concern. Legitimate concern too. Your one in a thousand opinion apparently is, there is not enough accountability for all that money. My 1 in 1,000 opinion is there is plenty accountability.
I don’t believe a single government employee, from the governor down to the custodian at the DWR and anyone in between would risk their job, a prison sentence, their integrity, their family etc etc to cover up corruption for anyone involved in handling the funds raised and expended by the conservation organizations that hold the expo. Would you be stupid enough to cover up a crime for some guy that you know is been watched by a 1000 haters, waiting to pounce the second a crime is committed. Apparently you have a pretty lofty opinion of your own integrity and a pretty low one of everybody else in the State. I don’t, I don’t think they are ALL corrupt, let alone one or two of them.
There are contracts that are binding in these programs. Auditors and State Attorneys hold these people to their signed agreements. Media journalist demand independent audits, they’ve had them. You must believe the State audits and attorneys are either all corrupt or they are incompetent idiots and guys in the background are criminal genius. I guess you do, I don’t.
If you want to see the check book, sorry, it’s not going to happen. Go visit with the State Purchasing Department and see how far you get telling them you want public access to the Expo organization’s check book….. written into the next contract. Let us know how far you get with that request.
Accountability is required, it’s monitored and the contractual agreements are and have been met, in the past and in the present. Those that need the contracted accountability to be met are getting the accountability required by contract. The required public accountability is been met, as required by the law.
In your 1,000 opinion, it’s not enough, in mine it is.
There’s not much more I can say to this issue, it’s not as if it hasn’t been hashed out every year for the duration of the expo. Research the length and depth of the accusations and claims of corrupt, it’s not difficult to do.
The State’s satisfied, so am I. Your not, that’s your right.
I’m gonna go get some crackers and a little salsa, would you care to share some on your next trip there Paradise?