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California water board’s actions and words show its utter disdain for Valley agriculture
Fresno Bee via Yahoo ^ | August 17, 2022 | Assemblymember Adam Gray

Posted on 08/17/2022 3:01:33 PM PDT by grundle

I want to thank the now-former climate and conservation manager at the State Water Resources Control Board who last month quit his job, then widely distributed an email telling many of his co-workers what he truly thinks of them.

He gave us the clearest proof yet that the water board is exactly what I and many others have accused it of being — loaded with activist staff who routinely undermine their own board members by presenting selective, misleading, or just inaccurate information and calling it fact.

In the process of quitting, this ideological zealot outed his efforts to work as a taxpayer-funded environmental lobbyist, pushing an agenda intent on destroying most of the San Joaquin Valley’s agricultural economy.

He is outraged that the board has failed to “quickly and permanently” reduce agricultural production. He called those working in food-processing jobs members of “a right-wing death cult.”

He still mourns the removal — some three years ago — of Felicia Marcus as chair of the board, never mind the fact that Marcus thumbed her nose at two governors by ignoring their joint request for her to consider a voluntary agreement negotiated by high-ranking administration officials on the Tuolumne River. This ex-staffer signs off his letter by disgustedly chiding some of his former co-workers for failing to derail the governor’s support for voluntary agreements on our rivers, saying his colleagues have “rolled over.”

A couple of years ago, this same angry staffer tweeted that my friend Melissa Hurtado, a state senator from Sanger, was a member of the “agricultural mafia” because she dared stand up for farmers and farmworkers. I wonder what he thinks of Sen. Hurtado’s bill that would have dissolved the water board outright?

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1 posted on 08/17/2022 3:01:33 PM PDT by grundle
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To: grundle

I have a paperback book somewhere called “The Late, Great State of California.”

The amount of production stated in that book is eye-opening.


2 posted on 08/17/2022 3:05:52 PM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: grundle

You could damn near feed the world out of that valley but the 2021 project people would have a fit.


3 posted on 08/17/2022 3:07:26 PM PDT by Don Corleone (leave the gun, take the canolis)
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To: grundle
presenting selective, misleading, or just inaccurate information and calling it fact.

And it should be a FELONY with a 10 year sentence and 100% Civil Asset Forfeiture for ANY Public Employee that makes deliberate false or misleading statements in the course of their duties, if it causes an injury or loss of ANY KIND to any private citizen.
4 posted on 08/17/2022 3:08:51 PM PDT by eyeamok (founded in cynicism, wrapped in sarcasm)
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To: grundle

Central Valley farmers being water boarded.


5 posted on 08/17/2022 3:18:16 PM PDT by AndyTheBear
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To: grundle

The goal is to bankrupt CA farmers, tben buy their property for cents on the dollar, hire slave labor.

Suddenly there will be water in abundance.


6 posted on 08/17/2022 3:18:30 PM PDT by stars & stripes forever (Blessed is the nation whose GOD is the LORD. - Psalm 33:12)
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To: grundle

people or almonds

take your pick


7 posted on 08/17/2022 3:20:16 PM PDT by RockyTx
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To: Don Corleone

Many years ago I lived near Fresno in Madera County helping to maintain what the owner called a ‘redneck country club’. He told me (I don’t know if it was true or not) that the San Joaquin Valley had some of the deepest topsoil in the world. It was one reason why, if irrigated, crop yields per acre were so high. Take the irrigation water away and it reverts to semi-desert. But at least we still have snail darter.


8 posted on 08/17/2022 3:24:05 PM PDT by hanamizu
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To: grundle

To your typical liberal, there’s a disconnect between farms, which are big business and therefore bad, and produce, which comes from the store. It’s the same with electricity. Electricity comes out of the wall. But power plants are bad for environment. It’s as if they don’t realize that the power in the wall comes from the power plant. Same with water. It comes out of the hose, but building dams is bad because...environment...or something. Possibly tiny delta fish...or something. Anyway...everything needed for civilized life is bad. But Starbucks coffee and electric cars good. They are sooo back to nature. Minus the cold, the wet and sleeping outdoors.

If all that sounds crazy...well...California.


9 posted on 08/17/2022 3:31:12 PM PDT by Gen.Blather (Wait! I said that out loud? )
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To: grundle

Whiskey is for drinking, water is for FIGHTING!


10 posted on 08/17/2022 3:36:19 PM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: grundle

The board members know for a fact that food comes from the grocery stores. Plus they have sworn not to buy Israeli technology to desalinat sea water. (But Israeli technology cell phones are OK)


11 posted on 08/17/2022 3:48:34 PM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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To: grundle; All

The Big Valley is the agricultural center of the universe.

But the rivers that made it so are dying or dead.

We have far, far too much land under tillage.

Those acres must be reduced to sustainable levels.


12 posted on 08/17/2022 3:51:46 PM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: grundle

People in California don’t need food. They just swallow all the bullshit the politicians out there feed them. That’s why they keep electing the some kind of bullshit artist as GAvin Nobrain every election.


13 posted on 08/17/2022 3:51:54 PM PDT by antidemoncrat
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To: grundle

California’s Communist leadership has been operating out of
an alternate universe for decades now.

The one thing you can say about the state, is that it is
so robust, even dedicated Communists of this level, can’t
destroy it no matter how hard they try.

The GDP remains orbital. The state’s finances aren’t
totally cratering.

By rights everyone should be on the streets, as ominous
as this state leadership’s draconian legislation is.


14 posted on 08/17/2022 3:52:57 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (I pledge allegiance the flag of the U S of A, and to the REPUBLIC for which stands.)
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To: grundle

Yeah, and they’re first in line to eat the food they produce too.

Worthless, self serving jackasses.


15 posted on 08/17/2022 3:53:57 PM PDT by Bullish (Rot'sa Ruck America. )
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To: grundle

The Evil Greens run the show could care less about humans


16 posted on 08/17/2022 3:56:50 PM PDT by butlerweave
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To: DoughtyOne

What you stated is also why North America, as a whole, hasn’t cratered. Yet.

It won’t until the Socialist Democrats run out of ‘other people’s money,’ and Mother Government has shown to be MORE than willing to keep those green-inked printing presses running 24/7/365.

Hundreds of Trillions in debt and unfunded ‘promises’ to We The People? No worries!

*SPIT*


17 posted on 08/17/2022 4:06:50 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have, 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set. )
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To: grundle

“called those working in food-processing jobs members of “a right-wing death cult.”

I guess those “right wing” cultists are taking jobs from illegal aliens.


18 posted on 08/17/2022 4:07:28 PM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

They hate this nation so much, they are spending it into
the great abyss.

When they accomplish that, the whole planet will have
serious problems, and we’ll never be the nation we were.

That isn’t good either, despite what some folks think.


19 posted on 08/17/2022 4:15:47 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (I pledge allegiance the flag of the U S of A, and to the REPUBLIC for which stands.)
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To: grundle

He called those working in food-processing jobs members of “a right-wing death cult.”

So he is opposed to food. Wow. Bon appetite.


20 posted on 08/17/2022 4:16:08 PM PDT by ToxicMasculinity ("Free country"? Good morning, Rip.)
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