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Wyatt Buchanan
Updated 10:28 p.m., Saturday, July 21, 2012
Sacramento –The scandal over a stash of $54 million in California’s Department of Parks and Recreation, which led to the resignation of the department’s director and firing of a deputy on Friday, will likely create problems for Gov. Jerry Brown’s tax measure in November, political observers said.
The governor used the threat of park closures as part of the narrative of the state’s desperate financial crisis even as some critics said it was merely a strategy to inflict unnecessary pain on the public to drum up support for new taxes. Now, the admission by top-level state officials that they were unaware the parks department had tens of millions in extra funds could undermine Brown’s pitch to voters that the state needs more of their tax dollars.
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