Frankly, charging water users for maintenance of the delta water delivery system isn't a bad idea. What is bad is the way they spend the money, with levee repair costs, once $300/foot and now at over $5,000/foot because of backward, unaccounable, bureaucratic (but I repeat myself) and outrageously extended environmental mitigation costs.
..the way they spend the money, with levee repair costs, once $300/foot and now at over $5,000/foot because of backward, unaccounable, bureaucratic (but I repeat myself) and outrageously extended environmental mitigation costs.
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I caught a bit of Chuch Devore this morning on KSFO and he brought out the same info.
What ever happened to having a gubamint that we could be proud of for efficiency instead of only hoping to seek to endure the mediocrity thereof.
Whatever happened to blow up the boxesful of bureaucrats that waste, squander and ensnare us in a web of inaction and out and out dabble in subterfuge and do so willingly.?
Do you recall this little principled outburst last week in a transportation committee hearing?
In a decision that will rank as the most shameful in the history of the California Senate, the leadership has abandoned the legislature’s role as the central decision-making organ in the state government. The careful deliberation and amendment of public policy is now a thing of the past.We’re told our role is now “advisory.” This is a legislature. We are not supposed to be advising on legislation. We are supposed to be acting on legislation.
Well guess what pops up again this week from the other side of the isle on the same subject?
"I believe it is more responsible to consider it in a separate bill and give everyone more time to think about it and discuss it. The best way to evaluate and resolve the issues raised by this proposed water charge is through the regular legislative process."
Also mentioned was a confirmation of the legislative revolt brewing, on the Republican side of the isle, over the Wilsonegger gang's MO:
Including the water fee would have made passing any proposal tougher because Republicans viewed it as a tax and all but vowed to block it.
The Wilsonegger gang's MO of bypassing Assembly and Senate Republicans by dealing directly with Democrat, legislative leaders in financial planning and policy decisions may be coming to an end because of an unlikely ally: Assembly and Senate Democrats who are also apparently fed up with their leadership's participation in the corrupting of California's constitutional process.
Keep an eye open. There will be more to come.