A brazen GOP water grab (or, these pigs don't miss a trick):
San Francisco Chronicle / 1-27-24 (EDITORIAL)
For simple-minded thinking on California's worsening drought, it would be hard to top the ideas trotted out by Republican leaders. Their plan: Divert water to farms and forget the environment. They even want to bolt this heavy-handed and unworkable idea into a looming federal farm bill.
It's a crude power play for the Central Valley, one of the few places this state's GOP has any following. House Speaker John Boehner, an Ohio Republican, flew in to talk up the issue, playing the role of the puzzled outsider perplexed by California's water policies.
Why not steer the flows to farms, not fish, he suggested, playing on long-running controversies over diverting water to save and restore historic fish runs. At his side were valley Republicans looking for an issue to improve their chances of re-election and widen the appeal of a party as endangered here as the salmon they denigrate.
GOP forces in the House followed up with an 11th-hour rider dropped into an enormous farm bill that would mandate water shipments from the delta southwards to agricultural districts, who fear drastic cuts as river levels drop.
MORE: http://www.sfgate.com/opinion/editorials/article/A-brazen-GOP-water-grab-5180192.php
The last PP so sums up the GOP: "… it's not a sound-bite topic that Republicans should be allowed to exploit for short-term political gain at the expense of a balanced approach to increasingly scarce water resources."
They'll fuck us and the ecosystem over just to gain a House seat or two.
Oh, and stay out of my state Boehner.
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