Trinitas comments:

This is Darryl Rusk, never anonymous! This Nation is facing financial disaster, and the Feds have created over a TRILLION dollars out of thin printing presses. (Yes trillion, $1,000,000,000,000.00) California is facing a $46,000,000,000.00 (BILLION) short fall by March, and could become bankrupt by this time next year. Calaveras County is still trying to balance it’s budget, which is mandated by State law, and was just forced to lay of eight people and their families from the building department.
AND THE KIR QUINTET CAN’T SEEM TO FATHOM THE SCOPE OF THE PROBLEM. They continue to flail away against the evil golf course. They continue to try to bankrupt a young family trying to build a dream. WHAT IS WRONG WITH THESE PEOPLE? Is it that they have their retirement money, so gosh, whatever trouble they cause won’t hurt them? Remember, a community survives best when all of its citizens do well.
I have heard that myopia is the result of geologic relocation of the cranium. But, I don’t know if that’s true.
Darryl Rusk again. One of the reputable anonymouses mentioned ‘thinking outside the box.’ The term refers to large businesses that have many people working in individual cubicles.
And yet..., the same writer continues his/her cranium challenged rants from the sixties and seventies’ environmentalist extreme anti-business, often anti- American, and often against any kind of human activities (except their own, of course).
I sense that the majority of complainers were hired into good paying government or education jobs and became transfixed in their then mind set beliefs, and now can’t find their way out of their own boxes.
These people seem to be incredibly uninformed when it comes to the real world ‘outside the box’. For a general update: golf courses tend to have large areas of green space and ponds that attract and protect wildlife. They do make money, or places like Pebble Beach, Torry Pines, and the Palm Springs areas would be broke. Those areas seem to be doing pretty well.
As for paying a living wage? I don’t know what your definition is, and you haven’t said. The Nemee family has hired many people and would like to hire more. Your Christmas present to those who can’t yet be hired is an almost unbelievably arrogant kiss off.
And just because I tend to be curious, how many people have been hired at ‘your definition of a living wage’ by any members of these elite little groups called the KIR quintet or Calcap? Just how much money have you contributed to the Calaveras County economy?
A golf course is a profit center for the County! Plus, it is an internal community tat maintains it’s own roads, bikeways, park areas, etc. And, a golf course tends to require very little commitment from County Police, Fire, or Road departments. Yet Trinitas would pay taxes and fee that help provide these services around it. Money also would go our schools, and to our children. Although I suspect that most of the whiners are old, they must remember the concept of children.
Flail on old-time complainers, flail on! Every time to write, and often when you speak publicly, you demonstrate why we need more families like the Nemees. They actually do contribute to a better future!
I sometimes wonder what color the sky is in Donald Kuhn’s world. In his most recent letter to the editor (12-17-08), he begins with the obvious, we’re in a drought. Then he strongly criticizes supporters of the Trinitas project for using or making assumptions. Wait for it...,you know it’s coming.
Mr. Kuhn spends the majority of his ink condemning those same supporters with the use of incredible assumptions. He says, wrongly, that the Trinitas "is drawing an estimated 113 million gallons of water...". That number was created from whole cloth by members of his own self-serving group!
He whines that more aquifer testing is needed, but fails to mention that Mike Nemee and his family are fronting the costs for CCWD to perform exactly those long term tests. He also fails to mention that neither he nor anyone in his group have been willing to put up anything but complaints for the past couple of years: no money, no proof of any code violations, not one shred of anything other that tiresome old school environmentalist games.
He must be getting sensitive to my responses when he has, in the past, tried to make ‘legal’ statements, because he only mentioned the State Supreme Court once. That’s a refreshing change.
If I correctly followed his letter’s logic, he said that the Trinitas Golf Course could open right now without any known damage to the aquifer. Congratulations Donald, I think you may have finally gotten something right.
By the way: I know that no one in the KIR quintet nor Calcap have actually been to Trinitas, so I again offer to give you a free guided tour. Just let me know when. Also, since you have refused to even sit down at a table with the Nemees, I offer to find whomever you would like as a mediator (that’s environmentalist speak for security), so all of you can actually have a civil conversation!