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McClintock is the only sane man in California. This State is HOPELESS!
eject, eject, eject-—bailout, bailout bailout-—Don’t be the last Freeper to leave Nutty’fornia!
How ‘bout Temperance Flats for us folks down the way?
Dam it, Rep. McClintock!
You seen this? Good on Tom.
Tom is going to give the envirals nightmares starting tonight with the remark about a second look at the Klamath dam removal...
Huh? Elk Grove? BS. He's in the 4th District, which does not include Elk Grove. Sacramento Bee, aka, the Sacramento BS
I wish he were Tom McClintock, R-Elk Grove! I would've gleefully voted for him many times by now.
Rep McClintock.... the Central Valley farmers need WATER! We drove down the 5 a year ago and many of the farms are complete dustbowls. Turn the water back on!
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The election was November 2, the new Congress was installed January 4, and the Dems still haven’t appointed their committee and subcommittee members? That’s really pretty pathetic.
Hopefully the GOP has done what the D’s did before, create an all but insurmountable imbalance in committee membership between majority and minority. But I won’t count on it.
"McClintock can promote his pet projects while he squeezes environmentalists. Politically, this means renewed talk of an Auburn dam,
If this does get further than just speculation by the Bee, I would have to fight against it. A beautiful and very historic area of Gold Rush history would be gone.
The American River is already controlled by Folsom Dam and lake and Lake Natomas downstream. All the rivers coming out of the Sierra on the West side are dammed and have reservoirs to a greater of lesser extent now.
The problem with water for the farmers is called Boxer, Fienstein and the EPA. The pumps that draw water into the canal just need to be turned back on.
Since he's on the Water and Power committee, if it's power that's the issue, get going with building nuclear power plants.
Glad to see McClintock in charge of this subcommittee. How fortunate that Texas’ Joe Straus is not Speaker of the US House or some “water is for fish” democrat may have been appointed instead.
If Mac got Auburn off the back burner we’d never here the end of it from WaspMan. There would be hell to pay. Constant nagging and endless I-told-you-sos.
We know McClintock is against the removal of the four Klamath dams. We hope he will be holding hearings on the agreements that were made. The Klamath Basin Restoration Agreement inncludes over a $ billion in pork for the tribes, agencies and environmental groups. The Klamath tribe gets a National Forest and fishing rights in the Shasta Territory. Klamath County gets money. The Yurok and Karuk tribes get reparations/economic money (the Yuroks are also going after a piece of Redwoods park) and the tribes and the various federal agencies get to set up a plan to restore the lands and waters of the mid-Klamath over which they, otherwise, would have no legitimate jurisdiction. The Klamath Basin farmers also screwed their neighbors for their pieces of silver in the form of more secure water deliveries and promises of Bonneville power so they would not have to pay for the costs of dam removal.
Of course this does not actually include money for the removal of the dams and the exppensive mitigations for the damages to infrastructure, the environment and private property that this would cause. This is shoved onto the rate payers and the people of California along with penalties for impacts to water quality rigged to be attributable to the dams.
$1 billion is an easy way to reduce the budget. Just say no.