Dem Sell-out Dianne Feinstein Attempts End-Run to Hand California Water to Billionaire Farmers

[marmar]

AlterNet / By Yasha Levine

Dem Sell-out Dianne Feinstein Attempts End-Run to Hand California Water to Billionaire Farmers
Feinstein is trying to ram through a massive transfer of public water into the private pockets of a clique of billionaire corporate farmers.

February 13, 2010 |


California's Democratic Senator Dianne Feinstein showed Californians who she really serves this past Thursday, when news emerged that she was trying to ram through a massive transfer of precious water out of the hands of millions of state residents, and into the private pockets of a clique of billionaire corporate farmers.

Here's how the San Francisco Chronicle described the swindle:

Feinstein wants to attach the proposal as an amendment to a fast-tracked Senate jobs bill. She is pitching the plan as a jobs measure to address the economic calamity in the Central Valley. It would increase farm water allocations from 10 percent last year to 40 percent this year and next, an amount that farmers say is the bare minimum they need.

Bay Area Democrats were livid, accusing Feinstein of concocting the plan in secret, upending fragile water negotiations that Feinstein has supported and pitting California's Central Valley against its coast.

They were right to be upset. The water transfer would decimate Northern California's already fragile ecosystem, threaten endangered species of fish and decrease its scarce drinking water supply. ..........(more)

The complete piece is at; http://www.alternet.org/economy/145661/dem_sell-out_dianne_feinstein_attempts_end-run_to_hand_california_water_to_billionaire_farmers

[WhiteTara]

1. time to make lots of calls!

Thanks for posting. She can be backed down. I hope you guys get rid of her!

[ensho]

2. its past time for Dianne to go home and stay there

her heart is not for the people. perhaps its because she is a woman that men can 'manage'.

[WileEcoyote]

5. We can leave references to men out of this one.

Di Fi is awful because she is awful.

No need for sexism to rear it's ugly head. Someone always wants to cast the blame on men here. Never fails. In the above example it shows the unprincipled actions of a U.S. Senator who just happens to be a woman. Then decided that her actions must be a response to a male dominated world.

As if Di Fi didn't have a mind of her own. "Oh these terrible terrible men always forcing me to sell out to the billionaires". Bullshit.

I am so sick and tired of this twisted anti male thinking here. Small wonder we didn't win elections in the past as much as we could have. "Divide and Conquer".

The anti male fascists here ought to receive a stipend from the RNC. For services rendered.

[IndianaGreen]

3. And Harvey Milk died so this bitch could embark on her political career

DiFi is a loser!

[dmr]

4. She also had a hand in putting the Patriot Act extension in the jobs bill

but Reid removed it.

[truedelphi]

6. Thank you for the update.

Di Fi is my least favorite person in the Senate.

I can respect Repugs whose policies are as bad, because they might not have the brain power to avoid doing what they do.

But Di Fi has plenty of brain power. It's morality,plain and simple, that she lacks.

The Ca-ching of the cash register that is her little dark heart is all we really hear behind her policies.