IN HAEC VERBA from 2/22 newsletter by ex-Mayor GEORGE GARDNER, the anti-Gay bigot who voted against the Rainbow flags in 2005 and who no longer fools anyone into thinking he is progressive (he took campaign contributions from speculator ROBERT MICHAEL GRAUBARD):
Rocky shoals for National Seashore Park – Castillo de San Marcos Superintendent Gordie Wilson offered some comment on a proposal to designate the St. Augustine region a National Seashore Park, shifting management and maintenance of a broad area of historic resources to the National Park Service (NPS).
Said Wilson, “Any such designation would have to take place through the legislative branch (Congress). We (NPS) execute the laws they pass, e.g. manage areas they establish for us. In 1939, bills were introduced (HR 7068, S 2731) to establish the St. Augustine National Historical Park, but the bills died. The NPS is struggling with maintaining our structures and assets as they are now, and establishing and enlarging the area is a tough sell in Congress.”
One priority, yet to be funded, is a Castillo Orientation Center on the Mary Peck house site in our Colonial Spanish Quarter. The center was adopted last year as part of NPS long-range plans for the Castillo.
GARDNER and WILSON, like Rep. JOHN MICA, lack imagination. These dull Republicans can't rely upon Congressional inaction in 1939 to argue against preservation today. Let them lead, follow, or get out of the way!!
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