The Legislature, consistently supported by the State’s coastal voters and enabled by the Governor’s quest for a legacy, continues to ride the pork express. Californians realized our water supply and distribution system was inadequate, sought answers from Sacramento, and were delivered a bond proposition only a bureaucrat hack could love. Sen. Denham is spot on.
By Jeff Denham, California State Senator District 12
The politicians and the special interests are at it again! Not only have they racked up a $19 billion deficit but now they are trying to con Californians into voting for a phony $11 billion water bond.
Proposition 18 is a pork measure that gives billions of dollars to special interests and bureaucrats:
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The Riverside Press-Enterprise said it contains: "a host of other items that have little to do with the state’s central water concerns. The state simply cannot afford such politically motivated handouts."
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Sacramento Bee Columnist Dan Walters observed: "There’s another $250 million(in Proposition 18) to partially pay for removing dams on the Klamath River that have nothing to do with California’s water supply — a benefit to PacifiCorp, the dams’ operator, which is owned by billionaire Warren Buffett, Schwarzenegger’s old pal."
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San Jose Mercury-News asks: "why not just get them (legislators) to take out the pork and offer up a smarter, more basic plan that Californians might actually approve. . . ?"
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The Legislature’s attorney admitted Proposition 18 is so poorly written that "…no amount of the $11,140,000,000 in bonds …would be required to be expended for a surface water storage facility…"
A so-called "water bond" that doesn’t even guarantee to build water facilities or increase water supply? Those politicians, lobbyists and bureaucrats have no shame. California’s bonded indebtedness is already at $73 billion!
Join family farmers, taxpayers, small business owners and other hardworking Californians by voting NO on Proposition 18 – the $11 billion boondoggle.
