Park Service rejects RNC’s offer to help reopen WWII Memorial

[highplainsdem]

Source: Washington Post

Republicans have taken up the cause of ensuring access to the memorial ever since elderly veterans managed to make it past metal barricades Tuesday that were barring access to it because of the federal shutdown.Standing near the memorial Wednesday, RNC Chairman Reince Priebus criticized the Obama administration for blocking visiting veterans' access to war memorials on the Mall. He said the committee had put aside money "to hire five security personnel to keep this memorial open to veterans and visitors," and he invited the Democratic National Committee to share in the expense.

In an e-mail, National Park Service spokeswoman Jennifer Mummart said the agency had no choice but to reject the RNC's donation.

"We have received quite a few offers from states, localities and businesses to pay for or provide support to re-open national parks. This is evidence of how much these places mean to people, and we take that very seriously," she wrote in an e-mail. "We have declined all of these offers because we are a national system operated by the National Park Service, which now, of course, lacks funds for daily operations."

Mummart added there is an official process through which the agency accepts and accounts for donations, and it lacks the staff to conduct such a screening.

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Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2013/10/02/park-service-rejects-rncs-offer-to-help-reopen-wwii-memorial/

[Happyhippychick]

1. YYYYYEEEEEEAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!

Good move!

[highplainsdem]

2. Yep. PERFECT response from them.

[Happyhippychick]

3. Best part:

Mummart added there is an official process through which the agency accepts and accounts for donations, and it lacks the staff to conduct such a screening.

[SunSeeker]

23. My thoughts exactly. Brilliant. They can't take the (blood) money because they're shutdown. nt

[busterbrown]

4. In other words... ..

Take your fucking dog and pony show elsewhere..

[meadowlark5]

5. Whining over this like they did the White House tours

Who gives a crap if people are losing income. Those people suffer in silence. And should one or two families tell their story of hardship to the public - they're already being referred to as "sob stories" by our empathetic, crack journalists at Fox News.

So many disgusting, hateful people in this country.

[frylock]

6. take that money and those 5 security guards and jam them up your ass

[Liberalagogo]

7. This says it best:

[StarryNite]

8. "Ha Ha!" is right!

They can't have it both ways!

[Paladin]

9. Outstanding! (nt)

[lamp_shade]

10. Kick and rec

[ewagner]

11. Rinse Penis should be embarrassed...

ooops...

did I misspell his name?

[thefool_wa]

12. They want to use their money to do something useful

They should contribute it to HeadStart or WIC...oh wait, kids don't vote for them, dying veterans do.

Our only hope is that the next 10 years will see the natural expiration of the majority of these Tea Party shitheads key voting demographic.

Please don't interpret this as me wishing Veterans would die, merely expressing the statistical fact that the majority of people who vote for Bachmann, Boehner, Cantor and the rest of them are REALLY old and not long for this earth.

[tavalon]

13. Park declines to be a photo op

That's good. Principals above politics.

[alcibiades_mystery]

14. Good...national parks are not private charities...they are funded with tax dollars and donations

through established legal channels.

Piecemeal appropriations and this sort of stuntism is bullshit, and should be rejected. The GOP doesn't get to reconfigure the entire government because they won't pass a fucking budget.

[phantom power]

15. Republicans, always trying to dodge the consequences of their actions.

[tofuandbeer]

16. So that's the GOP's strategy: privatize the high profile situations, and screw the rest.

[Swede Atlanta]

17. Great News!!!

They are trying to cherry pick what they want to fund either officially or unofficially.

Screw Reince Priebus. I would say and the horse he rode into town on but I like horses...

[liberal N proud]

18. Children can starve but god forbid some puke can't visit a National Park site.

These fuckers are showing their true colors now!

[DeSwiss]

19. Donate it to Planned Parenthood.

- K&R

[uppityperson]

20. Perfect! Thank you Ms Mummart. Well put. and....

hahahahahahahahahahhaa

[Historic NY]

21. They can't use the money after a shut down.....

its the law. Shutdown's have consequences.


http://www.gao.gov/legal/lawresources/antideficiencybackground.html

[SunSeeker]

22. What part of GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN does the GOP not understand?

You don't get to pick and choose your pet items for exemption from the shutdown, just like I don't get to pick and choose where my taxes go once I pay them.

[Politicalboi]

26. Haven't you heard,

It's a Slimdown, not a Shutdown.

[ailsagirl]

24. Despicable scum

What hypocrites!!!

But then, we've know that all along.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

25. "and it lacks the staff to conduct such a screening."

[gopiscrap]

27. Fuck the RNC and everyone in it...they can go to hell!

[Duckhunter935]

28. love her responce

Shut them down, we are closed no one to process donations

[SammyWinstonJack]

29. Burn!

Mummart added there is an official process through which the agency accepts and accounts for donations, and it lacks the staff to conduct such a screening.

[FSogol]

30. Perfect. Why open some parks and not others? n/t

[Sunlei]

31. RNC can take that showboat, pocket change 150k & buy tablets for a local DC public school?

Now that would be something 'good' & positive on the republican list. Americas school kids a lot have old crappy books, 8 year old books!

There is nothing on the republican list of good deeds. start with that 150k you're waving around.