Comments on: 8 of 9 Water Bond Czars hail from NorCal https://calwatchdog.com/2014/10/30/8-of-9-water-bond-czars-hail-from-norcal/ Wed, 25 Mar 2015 06:01:35 +0000 hourly 1 By: Wayne Lusvardi https://calwatchdog.com/2014/10/30/8-of-9-water-bond-czars-hail-from-norcal/#comment-101066 Mon, 03 Nov 2014 19:28:04 +0000 http://calwatchdog.com/?p=69769#comment-101066 In reply to ricky65.

I rarely get such a well thought out comment to my web posts.

I hope you understand that Calwatchdog cannot take a position on the ballot Propositions. Also, Calwatchdog has undergone a journalistic paradigm shift to objective journalism and news reporting and away from opinion pieces (unless it specifically states it is an opinion piece).

All I can do as a reporter is report the make up of the Water Commission, I can’t speculate on whether its members have been selected to shoot down dams.

Thank you for your comments so that writers can read your well reasoned opinions.

]]> By: ricky65 https://calwatchdog.com/2014/10/30/8-of-9-water-bond-czars-hail-from-norcal/#comment-100926 Sun, 02 Nov 2014 16:54:32 +0000 http://calwatchdog.com/?p=69769#comment-100926 Mr Lusvardi:
Your article focuses on the north-south residency aspect of the so-called water czars. It may interesting but I don’t think that’s the most important factor.
The more critical factor is really the political makeup of the board which appears to be skewed left towards anti development of real water storage projects.
This is why after thinking over Prop 1 for a long time I decided finally to vote against it. We desperately need new water storage and I’d vote for a clean, pork free water storage bill in a heartbeat.
But two thirds of this proposed bond is green pork, or re-distribution to green or preferred constituency groups. This dog even throws in $300 million for FLOOD control projects! Now that might be a legitimate need, but it should not be part of a water bill ostensibly designed to help with current and future droughts. Obviously it was needed to buy support for the bond measure from yet another constituency group in the central valley.
So while about of the third of the $7.5 bond is supposed to go for new storage projects, I don’t believe the proposed new reservoirs will ever be built. The greenie members of this board will simply vote against any new construction thereby deadlocking the commission.
And groups helping Brown push this scam like the Nature Conservancy, will immediately turn on any new reservoir building projects unleashing their lawyer hordes to sue and tie up projects forever in the courts.
Actually, I believe Brown and his green cohorts are secretly counting on the greenie opposition to bail them out of actually building something which might actually help our long term drought situation.
For some damn reason that I’ll never understand, they believe all dams are evil. It’s the same knee jerk reaction every time- like waving a crucifix in front of a vampire. They will oppose any storage project even if the proposed dams are off stream with little impact like Sites Reservoir or on already dammed rivers like Temperance Flat on the San Joaquin.

Anybody who thinks I’m being too cynical about this needs only to look at how the voters wishes have been contorted in the past in this corrupt state. And no more so than by this very small -minded Governor.
As proof I offer you the HS rail project (aka the Brown Streak) in which all the provisions in the original proposition have been totally ignored by Brown and his battery of liberal corrupt judges.

Yet another bond for water projects with nothing for our parched state except green pork for well connected insider groups.

]]> By: Manfred von Borks https://calwatchdog.com/2014/10/30/8-of-9-water-bond-czars-hail-from-norcal/#comment-100671 Fri, 31 Oct 2014 17:47:13 +0000 http://calwatchdog.com/?p=69769#comment-100671 Very good info, I’ve been referring to the Czars as a cabal of Water Weasels, thanks for naming them.

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