Absolutely correct. Does anyone think the godless liberal/progressive/socialist democrats, aka communist/fascist totalitarians really care about the smelt? Or the spotted owl? Or the shrimp or frogs? Or the gays? Or the blacks? Or the illegals? Or the planet?
Communist/fascist totalitarians care about one thing only. POWER!
The democrat workers and voters and people who may actually care about some of these things are simply useful idiots. Tools and fools. Right up to and including Obama.
You and yours live in that area please keep your eye on who is selling and buying large farms and/or acreage. I'm pretty sure what is going on in the Valley is a land transfer scheme. I knew a lady who owned-through her deceased husband-160 acres of Malibu land. One day she gets a notice of a tax hike-this was before Prop 13-and of the fact she cannot develop the land. She was forced to sell it at fire sale prices. The people who purchased it were politically connected and were able to develop the land making Many millions.