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env-trinity-bounces@velocipede.dcn.davis.ca.us
[mailto:env-trinity-bounces@velocipede.dcn.davis.ca.us] <B>On Behalf Of </B>Tom
Stokely<BR><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, May 01, 2013 10:34 AM<BR><B>To:</B>
env-trinity@velocipede.dcn.davis.ca.us<BR><B>Subject:</B> [env-trinity] Dan
Walters and SacBee Editorial on the story thatjust won't
die...<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
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<DIV><A
href="http://www.sacbee.com/2013/05/01/5384660/editorial-flimsy-justification.html">http://www.sacbee.com/2013/05/01/5384660/editorial-flimsy-justification.html</A></DIV>
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id=story_headline>Editorial: Flimsy justification to call for Jerry Meral's
ouster</H1>
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<P
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representatives from Northern California have reason to criticize the way Jerry
Meral and the Brown administration continue to push ahead with plans for two
gigantic water tunnels in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. We added our voice
to those criticisms Sunday.</P>
<P
style="LINE-HEIGHT: 1.5em; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 15px; FONT-SIZE: 15px">But
last week's call by five congressional Democrats for the resignation of Meral,
the governor's point man on the Bay Delta Conservation Plan, was an
embarrassment. Did they want him to resign because the tunnel's ominous
potential impact on Delta communities? Because of continued uncertainties about
how much water would be left for the Delta?</P>
<P
style="LINE-HEIGHT: 1.5em; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 15px; FONT-SIZE: 15px">No,
they demanded the resignation because of something that Meral said – or
purportedly said – within earshot of a pair of activists who are hardly neutral
in their assessment of Meral.</P>
<P
style="LINE-HEIGHT: 1.5em; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 15px; FONT-SIZE: 15px">On
April 15, Meral reportedly said that the Bay Delta Conservation Plan "is not
about, and has never been about, saving the Delta. The Delta cannot be saved."
These comments were overheard by Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla, who sent them into
the blogosphere.</P>
<P
style="LINE-HEIGHT: 1.5em; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 15px; FONT-SIZE: 15px">Meral
claims his comments were taken out of context, but even if they weren't, they
don't justify his resignation. More than a century ago, the Delta was drained,
its ecosystem forever changed. "Saving it," at least restoring it to its
pre-1800s state, is impossible, a point Meral has made in the past.</P>
<P
style="LINE-HEIGHT: 1.5em; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 15px; FONT-SIZE: 15px">Sadly,
we live in an age when the politics of vilification rages, when a single comment
or image can be blown up beyond proportion. Liberals hate it when the right
engages in these tactics. If so, they shouldn't practice it when it suits
them.</P>
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class=Apple-style-span>Dan Walters: Maneuvers accelerate on California water
plan</P>
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more here: <A
href="http://www.sanluisobispo.com/2013/05/01/2490957/dan-walters-maneuvers-accelerate.html#storylink=cpy">http://www.sanluisobispo.com/2013/05/01/2490957/dan-walters-maneuvers-accelerate.html#storylink=cpy</A></DIV></SPAN>
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<P
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this week, Gov. Jerry Brown's point man on the highly controversial proposal to
bore tunnels beneath the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta found himself in political
hot water.</P>
<P
style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-RIGHT-WIDTH: 0px; MARGIN: 20px 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; OUTLINE-WIDTH: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; FONT-FAMILY: inherit; MAX-WIDTH: 620px !important; BORDER-TOP-WIDTH: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM-WIDTH: 0px; FONT-SIZE: 14px; VERTICAL-ALIGN: baseline; BORDER-LEFT-WIDTH: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px">Gerald
Meral, a veteran environmentalist who served in Brown's first governorship, was
quoted as saying during a private meeting that the project, known formally as
the Bay Delta Conservation Plan, "is not about, and has never been about, saving
the Delta. The Delta cannot be saved."</P>
<P
style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-RIGHT-WIDTH: 0px; MARGIN: 20px 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; OUTLINE-WIDTH: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; FONT-FAMILY: inherit; MAX-WIDTH: 620px !important; BORDER-TOP-WIDTH: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM-WIDTH: 0px; FONT-SIZE: 14px; VERTICAL-ALIGN: baseline; BORDER-LEFT-WIDTH: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px">That
generated a letter from nine state legislators, all Democrats and all opponents
of the tunnels, demanding that Meral resign and the project be halted.</P>
<P
style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-RIGHT-WIDTH: 0px; MARGIN: 20px 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; OUTLINE-WIDTH: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; FONT-FAMILY: inherit; MAX-WIDTH: 620px !important; BORDER-TOP-WIDTH: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM-WIDTH: 0px; FONT-SIZE: 14px; VERTICAL-ALIGN: baseline; BORDER-LEFT-WIDTH: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px">Administration
officials, apparently eager to avoid further controversy, said Meral's remarks
were "taken out of context" but wouldn't explain further. They were busy,
ironically, making appearances before two legislative committees that were
discussing the tunnels and a bond issue for Delta improvements and other
non-tunnel aspects of the $30-plus billion overall plan.</P>
<P
style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-RIGHT-WIDTH: 0px; MARGIN: 20px 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; OUTLINE-WIDTH: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; FONT-FAMILY: inherit; MAX-WIDTH: 620px !important; BORDER-TOP-WIDTH: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM-WIDTH: 0px; FONT-SIZE: 14px; VERTICAL-ALIGN: baseline; BORDER-LEFT-WIDTH: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px">However,
in the context of how water is now drawn from the Delta, Meral's remarks are a
tempest in a teapot.</P>
<P
style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-RIGHT-WIDTH: 0px; MARGIN: 20px 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; OUTLINE-WIDTH: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; FONT-FAMILY: inherit; MAX-WIDTH: 620px !important; BORDER-TOP-WIDTH: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM-WIDTH: 0px; FONT-SIZE: 14px; VERTICAL-ALIGN: baseline; BORDER-LEFT-WIDTH: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px">"Saving
the Delta" is not, and cannot, be a goal because, as virtually everyone
acknowledges, the Delta now is an ecological mess that ill serves both wildlife,
especially salmon, and water users. It is, moreover, nothing like its seasonally
swampy natural state; it is now a man-made complex of agricultural islands with
water flows controlled by upstream dams and diversions from its southern
edge.</P>
<P
style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-RIGHT-WIDTH: 0px; MARGIN: 20px 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; OUTLINE-WIDTH: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; FONT-FAMILY: inherit; MAX-WIDTH: 620px !important; BORDER-TOP-WIDTH: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM-WIDTH: 0px; FONT-SIZE: 14px; VERTICAL-ALIGN: baseline; BORDER-LEFT-WIDTH: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px">As
a new and praiseworthy report from the Public Policy Institute of California
points out, the Delta cannot be returned to its natural state. Its vital roles
as coastal estuary and water source can be improved with rational, science-based
management of land and water – but only if parochial interests cooperate.</P>
<P
style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-RIGHT-WIDTH: 0px; MARGIN: 20px 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; OUTLINE-WIDTH: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; FONT-FAMILY: inherit; MAX-WIDTH: 620px !important; BORDER-TOP-WIDTH: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM-WIDTH: 0px; FONT-SIZE: 14px; VERTICAL-ALIGN: baseline; BORDER-LEFT-WIDTH: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px">That's
probably what Meral meant to say, or as Meral's boss, Resources Secretary John
Laird, told a Senate committee Tuesday, quoting a Mick Jagger song, "You can't
always get what you want."</P>
<P
style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-RIGHT-WIDTH: 0px; MARGIN: 20px 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; OUTLINE-WIDTH: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; FONT-FAMILY: inherit; MAX-WIDTH: 620px !important; BORDER-TOP-WIDTH: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM-WIDTH: 0px; FONT-SIZE: 14px; VERTICAL-ALIGN: baseline; BORDER-LEFT-WIDTH: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px">However,
the PPIC report, which summarizes exhaustive research about the Delta and its
twin roles as wildlife habitat and water source for about three-fourths of
Californians, also includes new polling data from Delta stakeholders, indicating
that there's little willingness among them to accommodate others.</P>
<P
style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-RIGHT-WIDTH: 0px; MARGIN: 20px 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; OUTLINE-WIDTH: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; FONT-FAMILY: inherit; MAX-WIDTH: 620px !important; BORDER-TOP-WIDTH: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM-WIDTH: 0px; FONT-SIZE: 14px; VERTICAL-ALIGN: baseline; BORDER-LEFT-WIDTH: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px">That
political knot was evident both at the Senate hearing and in another in the
Assembly, where lobbyists lined up to protect their pieces of the proposed $11.1
billion bond issue.</P>
<P
style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-RIGHT-WIDTH: 0px; MARGIN: 20px 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; OUTLINE-WIDTH: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; FONT-FAMILY: inherit; MAX-WIDTH: 620px !important; BORDER-TOP-WIDTH: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM-WIDTH: 0px; FONT-SIZE: 14px; VERTICAL-ALIGN: baseline; BORDER-LEFT-WIDTH: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px">Voters
must approve it, but it's already been postponed twice because of fears of
rejection. Efforts are under way to reduce its size – and that is creating a
political frenzy over whose projects will be reduced or eliminated.</P>
<P
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The Bee's Dan Walters, (916) 321-1195. Back columns, <A
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href="http://www.sacbee.com/walters">www.sacbee.com/walters</A> . Follow
him on Twitter @WaltersBee.</I></P>
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