The De Anza Cove residents have been conducting the longest running
Con Game in San Diego history.
In 1977 when I was elected to the City Council I received only one vote
of over 500 from the DeAnza Cove precinct (presumably the manager). I
had declined a commitment to allow the residents to violate their leases
and have the city grant them extra legal rights to stay beyond the terms
of the contracts each of them had signed.
Every single tenant of De Anza Harbor Resort has known for over 25 years
that he or she is illegally ensconced on public park land. They conned
the city council of which I was a member and conned at least two
subsequent city councils as well as conning the state legislature, each
of which capitulated and extended the time for the residents to vacate.
Every single tenant, without exception, has signed one or more
Disclosure Notices stipulating they understood they had no right to
remain on the property indefinitely, and each had agreed to voluntarily
vacate long before now. Every single one of them and their attorneys
know they are demanding an illegal gift of public funds amounting to
$141 million.
They also know that most politicians keep their jobs by taking money
from people who earn it and by giving it to those who haven't earned
it. The politicians have taught the residents of De Anza well, "Ask
and ye shall receive."
Why should De Anza residents be treated any different from the Padres,
the Chargers, The Holiday Bowl, The Opera, The Chamber of Commerce,
"Prevailing Wage" contractors, and government housing providers, all of
whom also receive illegal or immoral gifts of public funds? Looking at
all the people lining up before the city council during the budget
season, all one has to do to receive "other people's money" is to give
up one's self-respect.
Fred
Schnaubelt
