www.californiadroughtupdate.org/20210619-Recall-Newsom.pdf?_t=1624210343
The nation’s problem is California’s problem. And California’s problem is the nation’s problem. Only if this state has leaders who will aggressively act to lead the nation on providing the water required for today and for the next 50-100 years can any political action be meaningful and important. That is how the recall of Governor Newsom must be approached.
In 2014, California voters approved a more than $8 billion bond that was promoted by the Jerry Brown administration as heavily oriented to building water infrastructure that would increase the storage capacity of the California water management system. Seven years later, not one dime of that bond money has been spent on building water infrastructure.
Like his predecessor, Governor Newsom continues not only Brown’s policy of not increasing the water storage capacity of the system, but like every governor since Ronald Reagan, including him, has set a record for negligence when it comes to ensuring the future of the state, which, like most Southwest states, depends upon ensuring adequate water supplies for its population and agriculture. That is right! There has not in 40 years been one piece of water infrastructure built in this state.
Unlike past political leaders, who had the idea that their responsibility was to not only the people they represented, but also to future generations, Newsom is merely the latest of so-called leaders who fail.
