More proof that an IQ test should be required for all public office holders.
Not to worry, she will be easily re-elected, and the smelt will be represented in the senate.
if Arnold had a spine he would tell the feds where to get off and turn the water on....
The central valley is mainly RED voters... What would you expect.
Seriously, Californians need to vote this bitch out of office.
we know who she represents and it ain’t humans.
It's life or death for these people if they don't take direct action.
Solution: Here
its more like junk science over farmers....
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I personally think this is Obama’s Katrina, how do he stand there and do nothing.
Here’s a playlist of 18 videos from various voices, stunning imo.
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=961C90DFE5BF7AD2
#16 is something - shutting off water to farmers = domestic terrorism, think about it.
But not one commenter noted the bias in the article. The 'poor' farmers are big agribusiness that took a semi-desert and applied water to it many decades ago. They saw the shortage coming and connived an underground reservoir away from the state and filled it up with 'excess' water in flush years and sold it back to the state at huge profit in shortage years, and kept the massive dividends for themselves. Before the 'farmers' came you could kayak from San Francisco to Yosemite without a single portage. Salmon and sardines was a multi-million dollar industry, as was recreational fishing. Meanwhile the 'farmers' used aerial irrigation because it was cheaper than drip, and brought in illegal aliens to work their corporate fields. And they bred like rabbits and smuggled their families in to join them, and drank water, took showers, washed their cars, ...
So over the years the population increased just only slightly slower than the stupidity and greed of the legislators. The state set up their own standards for the sustainability of the Delta, and after years of litigation and demonstrated failure of the state's ability to balance the needs of people with its stewardship of resources for all, (including Mother Nature), a federal judge found the basis of the standards laughable and shut off the pumps.
This is the third year that salmon fishing has been closed to most of the west coast, and we are expecting yet another year to come. The prime game fish are all but gone. What remains, symbolically enough, are the bottom feeders. Of course they can't be eaten because of all the heavy metals deposited in S.F. Bay over the decades.
So before you make up your mind, read a book like The Cadillac Desert. Otherwise you become a stooge of big business, and all you are to them is a target for your wallet.
Lowering the standard of living for working citizens is the main goal of Democrats in power.
I can’t believe the IBD doesn’t get it so I will spell it out.
Step 1. Cut off water and drive people in to foreclosure.
Step 2. Friends and democrat cronies buy up the land.
Step 3. Turn the water back on.
Any questions?
Part of the fisheries issue is the Klamath. The salmon fishery overlaps the Sacramento run. First one has to consider the Pacific decadal oscillation (El Nino, La Nina.) Salmon runs are cyclical over a decade or more in response to these temperature/weather swings. When fishing is great in Alaska, it sucks in California.
Also, for several years the Klamath runs have been depressed. This is largely because of two diseases C-Shasta and parvicapsula minicornibus. This parasite has a life cycle involving a spore and a worm. It is infecting 80-90% of the juvenile fish in the Klamath mainstem and is usually lethal. Most returning adult fish also carry the disease and shed the spore with their carcass after they spawn. They have been studying it and still don’t have a grasp of how to reduce infection rates. The increase may be due to suntle climate change.
Anyhow, when the Klamath salmon runs are depressed, there is also no fishing for the Sacramento runs in the overlapping oceanic area. This year, the Sacramento runs are depressed and the Klamath runs are ok enough to allow in-river fishing.
Because of the depressed runs, the environmentalists, tribes and fishermen like to demonize farmers, ranchers and loggers for their use of water as a tool to gain power and to remove those industries. After twenty years of fighting about fish and water on the Klamath, I have absolutely no doubt in my mind that they will not be satisfied until all farming, ranching, mining, logging and devlopment is destroyed in my county.