Big Money Influence....
In today's SF Chronicle, there's a lengthy article about the potential influence of donors of large amounts of money to politicians have over whatever process is of interest. The article is titled, "Big donor got help from Feinstein on Delta Plan." In this case, the donor was Stuart and Linda Resnick, LA Billionaires, big time political players and owners of Roll International which, in turns owns Paramount Farms. Paramount is owner of a 48% interest in the Kern County Aquifer (originally funded by taxpayers $$$ and a major grower of Fruits/nuts in the southern San Joaquin....
Among other things, the article asserts that Resnick (who has made many, large donations to Feinstein campaigns) wrote to Feinstein who, in turn, wrote to Ken Salazar (Interior Secretary) to ask for a review of the situation. Her idea of a review is to have the National Academy of Sciences look to see if prior biological opinions and/or studies were done correctly.... The overt purpose of this is to verify the science. The covert purpose is to determine if increased pumping from the Delta can be resumed.... For more, see the thread titled, Senators Response, further down this Forum. IMHO, this review is an unnecessary intrusion into the planning process for Delta recovery.
It's been reported that Senator Feinstein is considering running for Governor when the office is vacated by the Schwartz....
The article was written for the Chron by an organization called California Watch.
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