[SierraWasp]

It's patterned after "The Tahoe Conservancy," with the "Tahoe Regional Planning Agency"(TRPA) thrown in, along with the CA "Coastal Commission" for good measure (and yes, LAFCO, too! It will be funded with Prop 50 bondage money just to make sure there is enough to muscle private property owners into the coercive "willing seller" hopeless position.

There is a supposedly "defensive" bill by Assemblyman Tim Leslie (AB 1788), also at the behest of Arnold the government expander, but it sucks canal water as there appears to be no defense from the mad land grabbers who now have the muscular Governor in complete tow.

We already have an association of mountain county County Supervisors that was formed just a few years after the infamous "Cows Don't Vote" Warren Court decision as a defense against this very kind of metro-sexual take-over by the idle rich in the coastal counties with their huge voting blocks.

We are already literally helpless in this onslaught by the huge blue voting liberal counties as evidenced by the same then State Senator Tim Leslie failing in his attempt to get a ballot measure past a decade ago to thin out the heard of mountain lions up here around the time one ate the female jogger across the road from us.

There is NO surging outcry from the public for this debacle of an idea and there is certainly no desire for this governmental activism anywhere in the region... just an inexperienced Governor being hornswaggled by a few militant activists eager to enslave the whole Sierra-Nevada range in "The Tradegy Of The Commons!"

Even if we collected enough signatures to qualify a defensive ballot measure, the lying bastards would buy enough "Lying Celebrity Advertising" to easily vote it down, just as they bought Jack Lemmon to decieve the public about Prop 98 that mandates 40% of every budget automatically go to schools and thus to teachers unions and their FAT pensions.

The new employees of "The Sierra-Nevada Conservancy" will recieve a FAT rate of pay and retire RICH at the expense of massive amounts of Sierran property owners and impoverished local mountain county governments that can't even maintain their paved over horse trails called "roads," today!!!

Check into the salaries and pensions of current "Tahoe Conservancy" employees today, if you don't believe what I'm saying!!! I truly wish Arnold would abandon this folly so I could support him fully, in good conscience. I'd really love to "Join" some of the rest of FReeperdom in their love of this guy, but he's a very real threat to the economic well being of this huge region at the moment.

The Sierra-Nevada Conservancy will be bigger than many states east of the Mississippi!!! Come on, CA FReepers, please don't turn a blind eye on this unnecessary disgrace. It will NOT help CA's economy as the Sierra is worth more than a playground for GANG-GREEN!!!

[South40]

I'd really love to "Join" some of the rest of FReeperdom in their love of this guy, but he's a very real threat to the economic well being of this huge region at the moment.

I can't relate. I voted for for Arnold not because I love him but because it was the only way of defeating cruz bustamante...a strategy some, apparently, still can't understand.

[FairOpinion]

I checked the status of AB 2600.

It's been introduced by Assembly Member Laird and referred to the Commissions of Nat. Resources, etc. in the California Assembly.

OK, so it's a lousy bill, I believe you.

BUT, WHAT IN BLAZES DOES IT HAVE TO DO WITH ARNOLD?!

Arnold is Governor of CA, NOT Dictator or King -- he has not control over the Legislature, which is predominently Democrat.

So why aren't you railing against the Democrats, instead of accusing Arnold of everything short of killing small children over something he has absolutely nothing to do with?

This is what totally blows your credibility.

If you had stayed factual over the bill, as Amerigomag, OK, we'll listen -- but your aim is not to present facts about the bill, but to rail against Arnold, yet again, WITHOUT A SHRED OF EVIDENCE that he has anything to do with this whatsoever.

What do you propose that Arnold do about it -- take his Terminator gun and "terminate" the CA Legislature?!

Arnold actually wanted to eliminate the CA Coastal Commission, but there was such an outcry from the liberals, he left it alone, because he has to keep his eyes focused on the big picture: getting CA's fiscal house in order and making it business friendly, such as reducing the Workers Comp -- on which he is working very hard -- working both with the legislature and also taking it to the people, in case the Legislature won't act.