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<DIV>is anyone really surprised?</DIV>
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<DIV>this is like a schoolyard pissing contest among adolescent republicans, to
see can be the more egregious corporate hack, knowing it will never pass the
Senate.</DIV>
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<DIV>truly a sad day in America...</DIV>
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<DIV style="font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=tstokely@att.net
href="mailto:tstokely@att.net">Tom Stokely</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, February 16, 2012 11:11 AM</DIV>
<DIV><B>To:</B> <A title=env-trinity@velocipede.dcn.davis.ca.us
href="mailto:env-trinity@velocipede.dcn.davis.ca.us">env-trinity@velocipede.dcn.davis.ca.us</A>
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<DIV><B>Subject:</B> [env-trinity] SF Chronicle Editorial- California
Republicans'brazen water grab</DIV></DIV></DIV>
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Republicans' brazen water grab</H1>
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<P>House Republicans are poised to pass legislation that would usurp
California's ability to manage its own water supply, harm the San Francisco Bay
Estuary ecosystem and drive California's salmon to extinction.</P>
<P>Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Alpaugh (Tulare County), wrote the bill to reverse the
way water is allocated in California. It essentially ensures water supplies for
farmers by taking it from the state's native salmon, trout and other
fisheries.</P>
<P>Beyond that, it:</P>
<P>-- Undermines water conservation efforts.</P>
<P>-- Dries up a 40-mile stretch of the San Joaquin River - the state's second
largest - by ending the restoration project that saw salmon returning two years
ago for the first time in more than 60 years.</P>
<P>-- Ends the Bay Delta Conservation Plan process but does nothing to address
the problems of water supply and quality the plan seeks to address.</P>
<P>In short, it promotes the agribusiness interests of Nunes' district over
other interests and upends the collaborative efforts to distribute California's
limited water supply fairly.</P>
<P>Northern California water interests had objected to an earlier version
because it required them to make up the water for the fish that Nunes' would
deliver to San Joaquin Valley farms. The new version exempts them from providing
water for fish, so they are on board.</P>
<P>Democrat Rep. Jerry McNerney, who represents both San Joaquin Valley farmers
and the delta, says this: "To steal water from one community to benefit another
is unconscionable."</P>
<P>We agree. The House should reject this brazen water grab.</P></SPAN>
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id=url><A
href="http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2012/02/16/EDTP1N811L.DTL">http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2012/02/16/EDTP1N811L.DTL</A> </P>
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id=pageno>This article appeared on page <STRONG>A - 13</STRONG> of the San
Francisco Chronicle</P></SPAN>
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