Posted on 05/16/2015 4:22:33 PM PDT by Jim Robinson
“Dam [thumbs up]… Train [thumbs down]… Governor, put our water before your train,” reads a billboard message erected by Fresno City Councilman Steve Brandau, revealed this week in California’s Central Valley.
“We don’t have a train shortage, we have a water shortage,” Brandau told Breitbart California. His message comes as California is in serious, extended drought, while Governor Jerry Brown has made it his priority to push forward the troubled high-speed rail project.
The “Dam” references the proposed Temperance Flat Dam. In 2014, Californians were sold on passing the Proposition 1 water bond on the premise that funds would be used for water storage, including the construction of Temperance Flat Dam. But funds are slow to flow the way voters believed they would.
DamTrain.com, the website associated with the billboard argues, “On average, more than 450,000 acre/feet of fresh water are released to due to overcapacity at Friant [Dam] every year. That’s enough water for 1.8 million households! Temperance Flat could capture that flood release.”
“It’s all about priorities,” Brandau said, “If you chase two rabbits you won’t catch either.” According to the councilman, the response to the message has been overwhelmingly positive, with 4- or 5-to-1 in support. Within 24 hours of the campaign’s launch, DamTrain’s Facebook page had collected over 1,250 likes.
Governor Brown’s office issued a statement to Fresno ABC News affiliate KFSN in response to the billboard: “This is the definition of a false choice. California is a growing state that must fix its aging transportation and water infrastructure…both are a priority.”
But with only $6 billion in available funds for a near-$70 billion project, and continued lawsuits over property condemnations, the high-speed rail isn’t likely to provide any relief to Californians anytime soon.
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With you Jim, we need water now, and we could give him a good place to start.
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Absolutely! The train sucks big dollars and is NOT even close to being a necessity, spend it on water resources.
Diane Feinstein’s husband is getting paid to build the railroad. If he got a piece of the action to build dams, the dams would be built. But he isn’t, so you get a railroad.
They got feathers, right ?
Use your imagination
Headline in todays print version of the S.F. Chronicle...Governor INTENDS to curtail spending.
except on his choo choo twain.
That Democrat asshat Brown wants the train to bear the name “The Jerry Brown Choo Choo”, songs to be written, movies to be made, ALL ‘BOARD! He doesn’t want his name on a plaque at the side of a road approaching a dam few will ever visit.
It’s that legacy thing ya know.
He is a relic of the past that has come back to haunt us..
“Diane Feinstein’s husband is getting paid to build the railroad. If he got a piece of the action to build dams, the dams would be built. But he isn’t, so you get a railroad.”
I believe it. What a shameful lot those Feinswines are. BTW, did Diane ever pass the sixth grade?
All the people need water, every day. Only a few people out of many millions will use that damn train someday decades away. Priorities seem to be lost on Brown, who is pissing away our money as well as our water. Damn him, damn the train, dam some water.
Odds are, the funding for the dam will get siphoned for other things because libs think money comes from magic.
And such is par for the course for libs.
Hopefully public anger reaches enough of a level that the oblivious Gov Brown figures out what needs to be done.
I know, wishful thinking.
DamTrain.com — amen!
What is it about expensive, high speed trains to nowhere that gives big government politicians raging erections?
Same crap in Florida when I lived there years ago. I don’t know where the plan is now, but those dicks would flush the state budget down the toilet to get their idiot train from Orlando to Disney.
What...they haven’t heard of buses in California?
If they traveled in groups, it would be like riding a train...and nothing has to be built.
And once they got off the highway, they could split up for different destinations.
Just imagine.
$6 billion would buy a whole lot of desalinization. Just saying.
Absolutely! Bus convoys are the answer. :)
bttt
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