Feinstein Meddling Again....

[Darian]

Here we go again!!! An editorial in yesterday's SacBee says that HR 1837 appears to DOA but Senator Feinstein is doing some back door meddling to increase water allocations to growers with junior water rights. Check it out:

http://www.sacbee.com/2012/04/04/438...ns-on-key.html

And the hits just keep on coming....

[OceanSunfish]

Here we go again!!! An editorial in yesterday's SacBee says that HR 1837 appears to DOA but Senator Feinstein is doing some back door meddling to increase water allocations to growers with junior water rights. Check it out:

http://www.sacbee.com/2012/04/04/438...ns-on-key.html

And the hits just keep on coming....

Sad. Another example of these politicians constantly working/"meddling" to provide favorble legislation for an elite group of people rather than protecting the public trust and just doing what is right.

I still don't believe HR 1837 is DOA in the Senate.

We have a horrible combination right now.... Voter Apathy/Ignorance and politicians driven only by their campaign contributors.

[bart]

Feinstein is up to her old tricks.I don't trust her,but Boxer and her are our only hope.Obama says he'll veto it.

[jim p]

Forget principles or the public it's getting reelected that matters.
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From the Bee:
Feinstein to hear from west and east sides of Valley ag

Being helpful to their causes draws Valley Republicans.

By John Ellis - The Fresno Bee


Tuesday, Apr. 10, 2012 | 10:55 PM


In the Valley, there's east-side agriculture and west-side agriculture. Today, Dianne Feinstein is hitting them both.

California's senior senator will attend a noon fundraiser at the Sanger home of Nisei Farmers League President Manuel Cunha Jr., and she will follow that up with a dinner event at the north Fresno home of Westlands Water District board President Don Peracchi.

Both Cunha and west-side grower Mark Borba -- who is among the hosts at the Peracchi event -- downplayed the east-west differences, but it is clear that both events will have distinctly different aims.

For Borba and the west-siders, water is paramount. West-side agriculture is currently forecast to receive just 30% of its allocation of Central Valley Project water, down from 45% promised in last year's initial forecast.

West-siders want that increased, especially as they look at the number of storms that have hit the far north of the state, where much of the federal water originates that flows through the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta and on to the west side.

Feinstein, they hope, can help. "I know she's trying," Borba says.

At the same time, Cunha is focused on immigration reform. He decided on holding the fundraiser at his home for several reasons. One at the top: He wants Feinstein to see the citrus groves around her. Citrus is a crop that requires "hand labor," he said.

Cunha and others are busy putting the finishing touches on a new immigration reform proposal they hope next week to take to Feinstein.

"It's water on that [west] side," Cunha said. "But if we [east-siders] don't have workers, we can't get anything done."

And, in a climate where so much attention is heaped on the west-side and its water woes, the east-siders also want to show Feinstein that they have issues, too, Cunha said.

What both events do have in common is a plethora of Republicans driving both events, even though Feinstein is a Democrat.

One has to wonder about all that money Rep. Devin Nunes -- a Tulare Republican -- spent last fall on a television ad campaign that lambasted the federal Environmental Protection Agency and "liberal Bay Area politicians" while taking particular aim at Feinstein.

These events will bring to three the number of major fundraisers prominent Valley Republicans have hosted and attended this year for Feinstein.

She not only has been helpful to the cause, Borba said -- which is why Republicans pay to attend her fundraisers -- but she also holds the power.

"California has two U.S. senators, and both have Ds behind their names," said Borba, referring to Democrats Feinstein and Barbara Boxer.

[Darian]

Interesting that on the East side of the San Joaquin, they have enough water but not enough workers and on the west side they have enough workers but not enough water. If I recall correctly, Feinstein was trying to make the case that more water would translate into more employment for the San Joaquin Valley in order to increase their allocation. Sounds like there's plenty of jobs but not enough low wage, undocumented farm workers.

Oh well, just another case of SNAFU....